Increasingly we’re seeing emails that begin with “We’re a Drupal shop and want to use Evanced products too…” Here at Evanced we’re excited by the potential of Drupal and what libraries are doing with it.

The Worthington Libraries (Ohio) has integrated their Events calendar with their website which uses Drupal as its content management system. You can view their calendar at http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/calendar. What you’ll see might surprise you. The front end is powered by Drupal, but the back end is Evanced Solutions’ Events product and uses all of the filtering, registration, and management features available.

Read more by visiting our blog at evanced.blogspot.com

Evanced Solutions would like to congratulate the Novi Public Library in Novi, Michigan on their new library! The building is set to open in June 2010.

The bigger building features recycled materials, green-tinted reflective glass in windows, water-efficient fixtures, and energy efficient light fixtures among many other “green” offerings.

Read more about the new building and how Events helps manage new spaces..

Information about “going green” and taking steps to help the environment is everywhere right now. More and more, we’ve seen and heard from our customers that using Events, Room Reserve and Summer Reader helps to reduce the amount of paper used in libraries. Over time, minimizing paper usage saves time, money, and people power.

You can read the rest of this article and learn more about how Evanced Solutions' products can help your library to "go green" through paperless workflows, by visiting our blog, Evanced Thinking.

It’s that time of year. It’s cold outside, the holidays are in full swing, and Evanced Solutions is releasing the newest version of Summer Reader in Beta.

We’ve been working diligently to incorporate your suggestions for making Summer Reader even better.

The new version of Summer Reader (V8/2010) will be releasing to Beta in the 1st week of January. In addition we will be registering library teams for a Summer Reader 2010 bug hunt. Just like with our previous contests, the team that collects the most points for submitting bugs, omissions, etc. will receive prizes.

Join the Bug Hunt! More information and a sign up link are here!.

Did you hear about our Fall Reading Program? Ninety-four librarians from across the country read books, magazines, websites and more and tracked their minutes and hours using Evanced Solutions’ Summer Reader product. At the end of the three months, great prizes were offered including Amazon gift cards, book marks, and pens!

It was such a huge success, we're having a beach-themed Winter Reading program! To learn more and to get the sign up link please click here.