Atlanta, Ga., October 22, 2025: Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce new development and other community contributions completed in Q3 of 2025 for Evergreen ILS.
Equinox staff are an active part of the anticipated fall 2025 Evergreen 3.16 release including Galen Charlton, Implementation and IT Manager at Equinox, who is serving as Release Manager. Equinox staff also served on maintenance release teams for Evergreen including Galen Charlton (3.14.10, 3.15.5) and Andrea Buntz Neiman, Project Manager for Software Development at Equinox, (3.14.9, 3.15.4, 3.15.3, 3.14.8). These updates can be viewed at: https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/.
Recent projects for Evergreen have included contributions to the Evergreen OPAC search results and the holds table. The last quarter also included an accessibility review for headings, landmarks, labels, and layout within the OPAC. In the enhanced MARC editor of Evergreen, design updates have been made to the dark mode improving color contrast.
Equinox also provided several new Angular interfaces, including for the Item Status, Item Alerts Types, and the Acquisitions Patron Requests interfaces. In addition, progress continues on the Quipu integration and the Quipu eRENEW feature in the third quarter.
“We are looking forward to the Evergreen 3.16 release in November,” said Andrea Buntz Neiman, Project Manager for Software Development at Equinox. “Equinox is proud to partner with the Evergreen community to make the software more accessible, and we are grateful to our partners who continue to bring wishlist features to each release.”
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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 open source solutions. Equinox is 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 to museum and special collection libraries. 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 on Evergreen: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/evergreen/.