Good morning and happy Monday Evergreen community! As you may know, The Evergreen Project became incorporated in 2018 and was granted status as a 501(c)3 organization in 2020. After a strategic planning process, we are now ready to launch a membership program for folks to support the work of the Project.
The 2026 Evergreen Project Board elections will be member-only, and open to individual (whether paid, contribution-based, or granted as part of an institutional membership) members of the Project. Memberships are available now for the 2026 membership year, with more information on types of memberships and their benefits at https://evergreen-ils.org/membership/. This program is designed to provide support for the work of the open-source project (and while membership has many benefits, it is not required for use of the software or participation in the community at large) - and we hope that many of you will join! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions — and my deepest gratitude to the current and past TEP boards as well as folks like our Membership Model investigation committee — it has take a lot of hard work to get to this point! Katie 2025-2026 TEP board president [cid:ba3a0b66-67a7-499f-89cc-4557d98f5d81] November 18, 2025 For Immediate Release For more information contact [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ### The Evergreen Project Is Now a Membership Organization The board of The Evergreen Project (TEP), a 501(c)3 organization, is pleased to announce that it has begun the transition to a membership-based model of governance. “We feel that offering memberships is the best way for us to continue to grow our community, and support the wonderful work of libraries using the Evergreen ILS,” says Katie Greenleaf Martin, President of the Evergreen Project Board. “In particular, the contributor program will encourage our community members to participate in Project governance and benefit from membership in the Project.” Memberships are available now for the 2026 membership year, with more information on types of memberships and their benefits at https://evergreen-ils.org/membership/. This change is part of the Project’s adoption of its 2025-28 Strategic Plan. This plan is the product of a collaborative effort by many stakeholders in the Evergreen open-source library software community with facilitation by Carson Block Consulting, Inc. The strategic plan outlines a vision for the continued transformation of TEP into a self-sustaining non-profit organization providing reliable, future-focused support for the Evergreen Community as well as advocacy for the open-source Evergreen ILS. Main goals of the strategic plan were to define a vision and priorities for TEP, support engagement and provide leadership within the Evergreen Community, and develop financial sustainability. One benefit of membership is invitations to quarterly webinars on library technology and open source software topics. The Evergreen Project is offering its first webinar on December 3rd and invites anyone interested in membership to join us. AADL's Tool Booking Interface: an Evergreen Project webinar Not long after AADL started circulating lawn games, event lighting, and other party gear, patrons started asking for a way to reserve items for specific dates. In response, AADL developed a custom web interface that allows patrons to easily check availability of multiple items at once and make a single booking for everything they need for their event. Of course, behind the scenes in the Evergreen Bookings module, it's not that simple. Come see how AADL introduced an interface that met patrons' web-native expectations while working solely within the Evergreen Bookings system. Presented by AADL Director and Vice President of The Evergreen Project board, Eli Neiburger. Register for the webinar here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/txixuXyHTsCy-O58ZnI6mw About Evergreen Evergreen is the leading open source ILS for consortia. Evergreen delivers local flexibility and policy granularity, as well as third-party interoperability via its truly open APIs. Evergreen is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later, and is available to all for download at no cost from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/. About the Evergreen Community The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies, and other organizations that support and use the Evergreen ILS. Evergreen is highly-scalable software that helps patrons find library materials and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. More than 2,000 libraries around the world use Evergreen. ### [cid:25050d78-e1ec-4383-94b6-f1c16b1597f1]Katie Greenleaf Martin (she/her), Executive Director Pennsylvania Integrated Library System (PaILS) | SPARK (717) 873-9461 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> support.sparkpa.org<https://support.sparkpa.org/> | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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