From User Group to Community: Software for Libraries, by Libraries
Saturday, June 29, 2024
2:30pm – 3:30pm Pacific
Location: Marriott Marquis, Miramar Room
Is your vendor’s user group process slowing you down? Do your enhancement requests languish because they don’t gain traction with other members of the user group? Have you ever wondered if there was a way for your core software to be more flexible and responsive to the needs of staff and patrons? In this session, members of the open-source Evergreen community will share examples of how they were able to improve staff workflows and the library user experience with software enhancements realized through the open-source software community. These libraries are no longer limited by a voting process in order to create desired improvements in the software. Instead, the open-source model empowers them to make and share software improvements that will provide the most benefit to their communities.