Slides that accompanied a lively, hands-on session by Lori Ayre and Cheryl Gould at Evergreen International Conference 2009.

1. Get Out of the Frying Pan! Lori Bowen Ayre [email_address] Cheryl Gould [email_address] Evergreen Conference 2009 Athens, Georgia

2. but don’t get into the fire…

3. It’s cool that Evergreen is free and that you can see the source code. But.

4. The best part is…. you are in control

5. With an Open Source Library System…

6. You decide what gets built.

7. You decide how it works.

8. You decide how you work.

9. The All Powerful “Vendor”

12. Learned Helplessness

13. Imagine if people working in libraries actually felt their ideas about how to do things made a difference?

14. Imagine eliminating “waste” (muda) of staff work effort Muda ( 無駄 ) is a Japanese term for activity that is wasteful, doesn't add value or is unproductive.

15. Imagine being able to optimize the user experience A Library Product:

16. Imagine being able to roll out a new service quickly! Sweet! My book is ready! “ Text-a-Circ”

17. Now is the time to take back the POWER we have ceded to the Vendors

19. Evergreen is a work in progress. We need to help build it.

20. Ways to contribute to Evergreen Suggest improvements Increase participation Contribute new code Co-Sponsor development Develop documentation Organize Evergreen communities Do usability testing Manage communities of interest (e.g. customers, catalogers, circ staff) Identify inefficiencies Conduct user need assessments Optimize workflow Troubleshoot existing code Raise money Beta Test new releases Design screens Write specifications Create and test third party add-ins

21. Step One Stop talking about what The Vendor can do and start talking about what WE can do

23. The Beginning