The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library system) used by over 1000 libraries around the world. The software, also called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as circulation (checkouts and checkins), acquisition of library materials, and (particularly in the case of Evergreen) sharing resources among groups of libraries.
The Evergreen Project was initiated by the Georgia Public Library System in 2006 to serve their need for a scalable catalog shared by (as of now) more than 275 public libraries in the state of Georgia. After Evergreen was released, it has since been adopted by a number of library consortia in the US and Canada as well as various individual libraries, and has started being adopted by libraries outside of North America.
Koha.org serves as a landing page for librarians who are interested in the most advanced and cost effective open source automation solution on the market, LibLime Koha. Koha.org offers a functionally advanced version of Koha and ready access to the most experienced Koha software support company in the industry, LibLime. Of the libraries worldwide using a variation of Koha, over 700 use the version supported by LibLime.