Identifying your library district As Evergreen continues to grow, libraries will find it increasingly important to spend time pulling resources together for training circulation staff on identifying the local library district and boundaries. Here are some resources readily available for training purposes. Read More
Clarification on Weekly Update – June 12, 2012 In last week’s Evergreen Update, it included a section on “Deleting holds”. There were a few items in that piece that we would like to correct. The system has always automatically deleted expired holds Read More
Deleting holds In accordance with the Evergreen Indiana Circulation Policy which states that unfilled holds will be deleted every 9 months, 400 title, volume and copy holds were deleted from the system as of June 6, 2012. The following hold note was Read More
Series Information in OPAC search results At the request of the OPAC Committee, the result summary page in the OPAC has been updated to include information about the series (if applicable) for that particular item. The code is written to include data Read More
Welcome Shelby County! Please join me in welcoming our 99th library, Shelby County Public Library, to the Evergreen Indiana consortium! This brings the current Evergreen Indiana service population to 948,743 residents. Shelby County Public Library currently has three branches: Main branch (SHCPLSC), Read More
Updated Cataloging Policy Updated cataloging policy has been posted here. Note the previously discussed cataloging policy change (Page 1, last paragraph): All member libraries must have at least one Certified (CAT 1) cataloger on their cataloging staff or an agreement in place Read More
Executive Committee ballots You will be receiving a ballot in the mail for voting on new members of the EC. Ballots are due by Friday, April 20. Please return them to Shauna Borger, LDO, Indiana State Library. Results will be announced at Read More
Candidates for the Executive Committee Friday, March 16 is the last day to be considered for one of the open positions on the EC beginning July 1, 2012. Please get in touch with Nick Schenkel (nick@wlaf.lib.in.us) or Krista Ledbetter (kristaq@mail.morg.lib.in.us) if you Read More
2012 Evergreen International Conference Today is the last day for Early Bird Registration! Register today and save $15 on attendance! Vendors can save $100 by registering to exhibit today! A list of programs and descriptions is available on the blog! eReader policies Read More
Perry County merger Tell City – Perry County Public Library and Cannelton Public Library will be officially merging on January 1, 2012, changing the total number of libraries in Evergreen Indiana to 95. The new library system name will be Perry County Read More