The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has named the Georgia Public Library Service as one of 10 recipients of the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. The $50,000 grant recognizes GPLS for the development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation system.

The Mellon Awards honor not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative development of open-source software tools with particular application to higher education and cultural heritage not-for-profit activities. The awards were presented Dec. 10. Click here for the full story.

MLC is partnering with Grand Rapids Public Library on a Michigan Evergreen project to develop a shared library system using Georgia’s Evergreen software. For information, please see our Michigan Evergreen blog.

Congratulations to Georgia! And a big “thank you” for making Evergreen available to the rest of us via open source!