Linux.com: Librarians Stake Their Future on Open Source

“A group of librarians at the Georgia Public Library Service has
developed an open source, enterprise-class library management
system that may revolutionize the way large-scale libraries are
run.

“The system, Evergreen, whose 1.0 release came in November, is
an Integrated Library System (ILS): the software that manages,
catalogs, and tracks the circulation of library holdings. It’s
written in C, JavaScript and Perl, is GPLed, runs on Linux with
Apache, uses a PostgreSQL database, Jabber for messaging and XUL as
client-side software. The system allows easy clustering and is
based entirely on open protocols…”

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