• About this book
• Acknowledgements
• Overview of daily and ongoing operation
• Initial set up
• Describing your organization
• Describing your people
• Migrating from a legacy system
• Importing materials in the staff client
• Ordering materials
• Finding and borrowing materials
• Designing your catalog
• Borrowing items: who, what, for how long
• Controlling how holds are fulfilled
• Managing patron penalties and alerts
• Sending reminders to your users
• Care and feeding of Evergreen
• Preparing for disaster: saving your data
• Maximizing performance
• Staying current and secure
• Resources
• Getting more help in the community
• Glossary
• Appendix A: Suggested Profile Permissions

Getting more help in the community

The Evergreen community is constantly growing. There is already a strong community of enthusiastic contributors and a wide range of ways to connect with them both to get help and to give help.

For a lot of helpful information on Evergreen

The first, best place to start is The Evergreen Project web site at http://www.evergreen-ils.org.

There you will find links to information about: 

• Current documentation - http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/   
  
• The Evergreen Wiki - http://www.evergreen.org/dokuwiki/doku.php 
• The Evergreen Community official blog - http://www.evergreen-ils.org/blog/  
  

And more!

Participate more actively in the community, ask questions and get answers 

There are quite a few mailing lists that you can join that deal with various aspects of Evergreen. See all the available lists at - http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php. A couple good places to start are:

• The general Evergreen Discussion Group list to bring up anything related to Evergreen - http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general 
• The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group list to learn more about the current state of documentation and contribute to documentation efforts  - http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation 

• Go to https://launchpad.net/evergreen 

What's next for you?

Friendly interaction seems to be a hallmark of members of the Evergreen community. You are welcome. There is a communication channel for you (or more than one) within the community and no doors are closed.

As you begin your work with Evergreen and interact with other members of the community, you will become known and will be valued for what you do. 

You will play your part in the ongoing development of the software. Setting up and running an Evergreen system will provide you with many opportunities to connect with other members of the Evergreen community. This may be through reporting bugs, through writing or fixing software, through creating documentation, to becoming an advocate for Evergreen to the wider library world.