# Evergreen ILS Reviews **Vendor:** Evergreen **Category:** [Library Management Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/library-management-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 5 ## About Evergreen ILS An open source enterprise-class library automation system that helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate materials. ## Evergreen ILS Reviews ### 1. Open source ILS for the win **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Evergreen ILS?** Evergreen is functional and very straight forward. **What do you dislike about Evergreen ILS?** I wish it an attractive UI, it feels bland. **Recommendations to others considering Evergreen ILS:** Consider it, it's worth the try but it is like a shoe, you need to try it out for yourself. **What problems is Evergreen ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evergreen provides the service needed to retrieve information. Its pretty straight forward and you get the stuff done. The best is that it is open source and accesible. ### 2. Amazing open source ILS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Corrine S. | Children's specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Evergreen ILS?** Open source ILS means we can create workflows and UX in ways that benefit our patrons in a variety of ways, as well as integrate applications that we hadn't expected prior. **What do you dislike about Evergreen ILS?** The back end can be pretty confusing off the bat. Tracking down the settings we need can be a trial, and the reports section is overly convoluted with poor documentation at the front. **What problems is Evergreen ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evergreen allows us to share catalogs across multiple library systems, routing patrons to the different community parts that have what they're looking for. ### 3. Easy and useful open source system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Evergreen ILS?** The ease and efficiency of the platform. **What do you dislike about Evergreen ILS?** The appearance is a bit outdated and old **What problems is Evergreen ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working under a constricted budget. ### 4. Evergreen is the best!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lindsay F. | Circulation Clerk, Libraries, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Evergreen ILS?** I love how user friendly it is. It usually have quick search results, and its easy to learn. Also that you can have administration duties and cataloger duties. You can easily edit your patrons information, delete them or put notes on their account without constantly typing passwords. **What do you dislike about Evergreen ILS?** Takes forever to load, and freezes a lot. I also don't like how you have to type everything in Capitals when deleting books, I wish it would have a close enough option that would pull up titles for you to choose. **Recommendations to others considering Evergreen ILS:** I would try it. I think they are going to be doing an upgrade to the whole system soon. **What problems is Evergreen ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** When it freezes it stops our customer flow. When it works right the customer flow is smooth. ### 5. Functional, Capable, Unlike Snickers, doesn't satisfy... **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Libraries | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Evergreen ILS?** Evergreen is a fully functional piece of software, that includes a surprising number of features. It excels at basic library circulation and cataloging tasks. **What do you dislike about Evergreen ILS?** Due to the open-source nature of the software, and the "free form" nature of it's development, it has frequent glitches, bugs, and other coding related issues. One persistent issue through all versions is an issue with accumulation of operating processes in active memory, such that when first started, the software uses about 50-75 mb of active memory...but by the end of a long day, the program may be using as much as a gb, or more, of the PCs active memory. With newer computers that's not an issue, but on older machines, such as those commonly found in many smaller, poorer, typically rural libraries, that may be the majority of the active memory...essentially "breaking" the computer, and requiring a restart to clear the freeze that frequently happens under those circumstances. **Recommendations to others considering Evergreen ILS:** If you like the Triple I Millenium-style interface, but want to lower costs, Evergreen ILS is certainly a contender. Please consider the possibility of the issue of design flaws when exploiting open-source software before making the switch! **What problems is Evergreen ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evergreen was selected because it met the operating needs of the library system I work in, and was similar enough to our previous vendor's software visually and functionally to make the transition relatively simple. It allows us to complete our circulation, cataloging, and collection development tasks in a relatively efficient fashion. ## Evergreen ILS Discussions - [What is evergreen in library science?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-evergreen-in-library-science) - [What is Evergreen program?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/evergreen-ils-what-is-evergreen-program) - [How do you use Evergreen ILS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-use-evergreen-ils) - [View Evergreen ILS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/evergreen-ils/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+21%3A52%3A34+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=60ba67b5-778b-4d13-8264-7fad9b02d72d&secure%5Btoken%5D=368dea709392d562bd299858a253e2488e44ee9a7bd02333a656f6640d99edb6&format=llm_user) ## Top Evergreen ILS Alternatives - [Follett Destiny Library Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/follett-software-follett-destiny-library-manager/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (430 reviews) - [Koha](https://www.g2.com/products/koha/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (11 reviews) - [Atriuum ILS](https://www.g2.com/products/atriuum-ils/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (109 reviews)