It’s official – Natural Resources Canada Library (NRCan Library) has selected the Evergreen ILS.
Evergreen is one several open source systems on the marketplace, and was selected on the basis of functional requirements but with serious consideration given to several important marketplace trends:
- one big library
- vendor neutrality, especially in regards to discovery interfaces
- strong support for a functional API (application programming interface)
The collaborative, open source development model used by the Evergreen ILS community is anticipated to give us better long term options and situate our library to respond to these and other important library trends. The move addresses duplicative ILS infrastructure as a result of a consolidation of departmental libraries.