Bob will provide an introduction to the Evergreen ‘Superconsortium’, and a speculation about the future evolution of Evergreen and the Superconsortium. Equinox software provides support and development services for Evergreen, one of the key open source library systems.

3. Open source wellsprings US Public Libraries by Total Expenditures % expended of total Top quartile 89% Bottom three quartiles 11%

6. Public Library Migrations by year Public Library Systems 2006 46 2007 3 2008 37 2009 68

7. Large Urban Public Library Public Library Totals Population Served Total Circulations Book and Serial Volumes Public Library Systems outlets 2006 4,379,592 18,129,888 8,137,915 46 241 2007 66,126 310,128 209,994 3 8 2008 965,491 6,922,871 3,350,120 37 72 2009 to date 184,193 1,909,231 858,672 17 26 2009 projected 1,848,734 10,853,156 4,383,586 68 155 2006-2009 7,259,943 36,216,043 16,081,615 171 476 King County, 2010 1,205,095 19,121,913 3,146,400 1 51

8. State of Evergreen Consortia Evergreen Academic or PL consortia May 9, 2009 December 31, 2009 Conifer 4 4 Evergreen Indiana 27 38 Michigan Evergreen 9 10 NTLC 13 PINES 51 51 SC LENDS 10 SITKA 16 31 Spruce 1 1 Tsuga 1 1 (Independent) 6 10 Totals 115 169

10. Other types of Libraries Type of Library May, 2009 December, 2009 School libraries 2 2 Special libraries 2 3 State libraries 1 3

11. May, 2009 December, 2009 Number of countries with libraries running Evergreen 2 5