Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Library, a 13-library organisation, has gone live with the first phase of its migration to Evergreen, a consortial-quality open-source library automation software. The migration includes the seven locations for NRCan Library's Canadian Forestry Center Library as well as two locations for its Energy, Minerals and Metals Information Centre. Equinox Software, Inc., the support and development company for Evergreen, oversaw the migration of the 300,000 bibliographic records and is providing ongoing technical support.
The second phase of the migration will take place in the Fall 2009. NRCan Library, which has been using two separate integrated library systems, has opted to migrate in phased deployments. Once complete, there will be about 500,000 bibliographic records on the new combined catalogue.
Established in 1995, NRCan specialises in earth sciences and in the sustainable development and use of natural resources, such as energy, forests, and minerals and metals. The NRCan libraries are distributed across Canada, with five located in the Ottawa area.
