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Duluth, GA —January 14, 2013

Worch Memorial Public Library has gone live on Evergreen as part of the Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL). They are the sixth of nine founding members of the new state wide program bringing 37,000 bibliographic items and almost 9,000 new patrons to the consortium. The final libraries are expected to be live by the summer of 2013. For more information, the COOL combined catalog can be viewed online at http://www.cool-cat.org/.

North Bethesda, MD, January 10, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) announce the University of Advancing Technology has gone live on LibLime Academic Koha 5.0.

LibLime Academic Koha 5.0 includes several new features:
• global authority control
• initial RDA support for the content, media, and carrier data fields
• more efficient tracking of ‘Lost’ items on patron records
• expansion of partial fines support which lets staff select where the partial payment is applied

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 9 January 2013

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has finalized an agreement with Apollo Books (Denmark) to acquire the English-language Entomology publications program, effective immediately.

Seattle, WA- LibLime, a division of PTFS, will raffle off a Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight Reader and debut the release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.2 at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting from January 25-28 in Seattle, Washington. Conference attendees are encouraged to visit the LibLime at Booth 636 and drop off a business card to enter to win the Nook Simple Touch Reader. The drawing will be held Monday, January 28.

Farmington Hills, Mich., Jan. 8, 2013 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the launch of National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World, a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) product line. This new resource joins National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 and National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current (launched this past fall), bringing the total number of available NGVL resources to three.

The deadline is approaching for libraries interested in submitting entries for the first-ever LibraryAware Community Award. Submissions must be postmarked by February 1st. The LibraryAware Community Award recognizes cities and towns and their libraries, or library systems, that have demonstrated their ability to make the community aware of what the library can do for them—and have delivered on that promise. The award is given by Library Journal and underwritten by LibraryAware™, a product of the NoveList division of EBSCO Publishing.

North Bethesda, MD, January 3, 2013- The Northern Saguache County Library District, located in Saguache, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is now live in the LibLime Koha 4.12 union catalog.

IPSWICH, Mass. — January 3, 2013 —The African American Historical Serials Collection™ from EBSCO Publishing, developed in collaboration with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), has been named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine.

North Bethesda, MD, December 27, 2012- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that four new school libraries in the Rocky View School District (Alberta, Canada) have officially gone live on LibLime Koha. WG Murdoch School, Langdon School, Prairie Waters Elementary School, and Chestermere High School are the newest schools to go-live on LibLime Koha.