The 2022 Year in Review is Here!

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The 2022 Year in Review is Here!

Join us in looking back at 2022 with Equinox’s Year in Review!

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Highlights include:

  • Support for leading open source discovery systems Aspen Discovery and VuFind®
  • Community building and ERM learning at the 2022 CORAL Online Summit
  • Introducing five new Equinox team members (hi, everyone!)
  • Sharing our knowledge at community events – CORAL, Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind®
  • And also at library conferences – ER&L, ALA, Charleston, PaLA, NYLA, CT, and MO
  • Interesting conversations with guest moderators at #ChatOpenS
  • Completing many exciting development projects (thanks, partners!)
  • Welcoming more libraries and library systems nationwide to the Equinox community

 

Equinox Welcomes St Thomas Public Library to Evergreen ILS

Equinox Welcomes St Thomas Public Library to Evergreen ILS

Atlanta, Ga., December 14, 2022: Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce that St Thomas Public Library of St Thomas, Ontario, Canada has joined the Evergreen community with support from Equinox.

“Being a smaller sized library, we weren’t sure if it would be possible for us to support a move to open source, but Equinox has made every step of the migration, training, and implementation of Evergreen run so smoothly,” said Aaron DeVries, Manager, Digital and Support Services at St Thomas Public Library. “The flexibility of Evergreen has already improved our workflows around some of our special collections and library staff have begun dreaming of new integrations to enhance our patron experiences.”

Begun as the St Thomas Free Library in 1884, the St Thomas Public Library has celebrated over 130 years of service to their community including the additions of a reading garden, and book pick up lockers and vending machines in central locations. Their library serves 31,885 patrons and encompasses a collection of 80,913 bibliographic records. As part of their migration Equinox provided support, hosting, data, and implementation services. This is in addition to remote training provided by Equinox’s expert staff of degreed librarians. Hosting will be offered on Sequoia, Equinox’s cloud-based platform for library automation services.

“Having a part to play in over 130 years of service to a community is a humbling and rewarding experience,” said Rogan Hamby, Data and Project Analyst at Equinox. “We are thrilled that open source technology is now part of the history of the St Thomas Public Library.”

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For more information:
Laura Barry
Communications Coordinator
Equinox Open Library Initiative, Inc.
EquinoxOLI.org
laura.barry@equinoxOLI.org
877.OPEN.ILS (877.673.6457)

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is the successor to Equinox Software, Inc. Equinox’s mission as a nonprofit is to promote and support a thriving ecosystem for open source library communities in order to provide libraries worldwide with innovative, affordable, and sustainable open source solutions. We are devoted to reducing barriers to library technology and services, expanding library access to open source software, and providing high quality technology, consulting, and support services.To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxOLI.org.

About Evergreen
Evergreen Integrated Library System is an award winning and trusted library solution used by more than 1,800 libraries worldwide. Evergreen ILS is a web-based and mobile-friendly system which provides attractive, easy to use interfaces for library acquisitions, administration, cataloging, circulation, OPAC, reports, course reserves, and serials functionality.

 

Evergreen ILS is an enterprise level system designed to manage a scalable catalog shared across libraries, including large public and academic library consortia. While designed for large collections, Evergreen is suitable for libraries of any size and type from government libraries to museum and special library collections. Its flexibility enables libraries to configure policies and settings that work best for their communities and to maintain ownership of their library and systems data.

For more information about Evergreen: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/evergreen/.

Equinox Becomes the First VuFind® Registered Service Provider in the United States

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Equinox Becomes the First VuFind® Registered Service Provider in the United States

Atlanta, Ga., December 7, 2022: Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce that Equinox is now a Registered Service Provider for the open source discovery layer, VuFind®. Equinox is the first VuFind® Registered Service Provider in the United States. Equinox provides VuFind® services for libraries and consortia using Evergreen ILS, FOLIO LSP, and Koha ILS, as well as proprietary library systems supported by VuFind®.

“The VuFind® Project Management Committee introduced the Registered Service Provider earlier this year to provide an opportunity for stronger partnerships between the core development community and the surrounding ecosystem of vendors that support the software,” said Demian Katz, Community Manager for VuFind® and Director of Library Technology at Villanova University. “We’re thrilled by the strong initial response to this program and are very pleased that Equinox is coming on board to help ensure the ongoing sustainability of free, open source software.”

Registered Service Providers work closely with the VuFind® community, support knowledge sharing, demonstrate expertise in open source technologies for libraries, and contribute to the financial sustainability of the VuFind® project.

“Equinox has a long history of open source community collaboration and support,” said Galen Charlton, Implementation and IT Manager at Equinox. “Since the beginning, supporting open source communities and libraries has been at the center of Equinox’s mission and purpose. We see our partnership with the VuFind® community as a natural next step in promoting open technologies for libraries.”

VuFind® is developed and maintained by Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library. VuFind® joined the Open Library Foundation in April 2022.

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For more information:
Laura Barry
Communications Coordinator
Equinox Open Library Initiative, Inc.
EquinoxOLI.org
laura.barry@equinoxOLI.org
877.OPEN.ILS (877.673.6457)

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is the successor to Equinox Software, Inc. Equinox’s mission as a nonprofit is to promote and support a thriving ecosystem for open source library communities in order to provide libraries worldwide with innovative, affordable, and sustainable open source solutions. We are devoted to reducing barriers to library technology and services, expanding library access to open source software, and providing high quality technology, consulting, and support services.To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxOLI.org.

About VuFind®
VuFind® is an open source discovery product for libraries and archives developed and maintained by Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library. VuFind® enables library users to discover the entirety of libraries’ collections, including catalog records, journals, digital items, and more. Search results are retrieved quickly, often in a fraction of the time of an OPAC search. VuFind® is open source and customizable—the interface may be configured to best meet users’ needs. For more information on VuFind® visit: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/vufind/.