April 18, 2022
Indiana Evergreeners,
There was snow on the ground this morning in Indianapolis, and I have feelings about that.
Virtual Annual Meeting Rescheduled
The Evergreen Indiana Annual Meeting has been rescheduled for Monday, May 23rd at 1 p.m. CT / 2 p.m. ET. The annual meeting is required by Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium by-laws, and all staff at member libraries are encouraged to tune in and participate. At this meeting, the nominees for committee elections will be announced, with ballots to be distributed following. The link to join is available in the calendar event at https://evergreenindiana.org.
Annual Feature Request Survey
The Evergreen Indiana Annual Feature Request Survey will open on Monday, April 25. You will have the opportunity to submit your ideas about what would make the Evergreen ILS better. The survey will be open until May 18.
Governance Committee Nominations
Nominations are being accepted through April 30, 2022 for open and opening seats on the Executive, Cataloging, and Patrons Services Committees. Three seats representing (1) Class A, (1) Class B, and (1) Class C libraries will be filled for the Executive Committee, and three seats representing (1) Class A, (1) Class B, and (1) Class C libraries will be filled for the Patron Services Committee. All of these seats are three year terms. An additional Class A seat will be filled for 2 years to finish the term vacated earlier this year.
Self-nominations are encouraged when endorsed by the appropriate supervisory personnel in member libraries. The form for nominations is here.
Evergreen International Online Conference Scholarship Application Available
The 2022 Evergreen International Conference will once more be held virtually via the Hop-in platform. Applications for Registration Scholarships are being accepted through Monday, May 2. All staff of Evergreen Indiana member libraries are invited to apply for these scholarships using the linked form here.
Catalog Deduplication Clean-up
On Friday, April 15, the Evergreen Indiana catalog was deduplicated. During this process, just over 190k records were merged. This was in line with general expectations. The catalog now stands at just over 2.7 million bibliographic records. As with all automated processes, cleanup tasks remain for all of us. The most likely mismerged records will be those records that contain multiple ISBNs and/or other standard identifiers.
Upcoming Training
Please check out the calendar at https://evergreenindiana.org to see when upcoming trainings are listed and find registration links.