Hi Everyone - I'd like to wish our book writers at great big congratulations!! Confession: I work with Robert. I have seen the first version of the book - it's great. You folks should be very proud of yourselves. Aside from the fabulousness of having an actual book about Evergreen (Mohawk will be purchasing a couple at least, I promise) - this book means so much more. Our college's new academic plan talks about "openness" in more than one way e.g. instructor created content. I plan to be waving the Evergreen book around as an example of what some smart and dedicated folks can do given time and support. I look forward to being able to support this kind of work in MPOW however and whenever I can. As a Collections librarian, I confess to being more than a little tired of signing on the dotted line to purchase big collections of stuff only some of which we need. Helping with the creation and curation of such treasures as *Evergreen in Action* is something I very much look forward to.
Again, Congratulations to Dan, Robert, Kathy, Lindsay and Jim. Warm Regards, Cynthia PS I am wildly jealous of your time on the Google campus!! [?] On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > As you might have gathered from a couple of mentions on other threads, > various social media sites[1], an article in the Linux Weekly News, and > the Evergreen blog[2], we[3] went to Google last week and wrote a book. > > "Yeah yeah yeah, enough rambling," I can hear you say, "where's the > book?" > > Right. We're just polishing up a few last bits[4] before we publish it > publicly... our goal is to make paid and free versions available, with > all proceeds from the paid versions going to the Evergreen project, and > we hope to have everything ready by the end of the week.[5] > > So stay tuned - we'll have an update for you soon! > > 1. https://plus.google.com/u/0/102508317458716178274 / > http://twitter.com/search?q=%23egils > 2. http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=865 > 3. "We" are Lindsay Stratton, Robert Soulliere, Kathy Lussier, Jim > Keenan, Dan Scott > 4. Like adding the authors' names somewhere, and fixing some > formatting glitches... > 5. Just in time for certain holidays! > -- No trees were harmed in the making of this email, though several electrons were greatly inconvenienced.
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