Berklee College of Music Stan Getz Library Goes Live on Evergreen
August 20 , 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Duluth, GA — August 20, 2012
The Berklee College of Music Stan Getz Library has gone live with Evergreen as their next generation ILS. Equinox Software provided data migration and training services and will continue to provide technical support. In addition, Equinox Software provided development services to allow for Song Title Indexing in Evergreen.
According to Brad LaJeunesse, Equinox President, "Migrating a music library was a unique challenge for us and a first for Evergreen. We enjoyed working with the Berklee staff and look forward to continuing to assist them with technical needs for their installation."
Located in Boston, The Berklee College of Music is the world’s largest independent college of contemporary music. Collectively, their alumni have won over 200 Grammy Awards. The Stan Getz Library contains over 33,000 music recordings, almost 28,000 books, and 23,000 musical scores. The new online catalog powered by Evergreen can be viewed at http://catalog.berklee.edu
About Equinox Software, Inc.
Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a leader in open source solutions for libraries. Their goal is to engage and support a rapidly growing open source community while assisting libraries in moving away from expensive proprietary vendors and products.
For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.
About Evergreen
Evergreen is a robust, open-source integrated library system best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia. However, it has also proven equally successful scaled down for even the smallest libraries. Evergreen now supports over 1,200 libraries of every type-public, academic, special, and school media centers across 4 countries, 31 U.S. states, and 8 Canadian provinces. For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.
Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571