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Duluth, GA —March 18, 2013

The Blanchester and Wornstaff Memorial public libraries have gone live on Evergreen making a total of 8 library systems on the new Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL). More than10,000 new patrons will now be part of the COOL consortium and over 90,000 bibliographic items have been added to the combined catalog. For more information, the COOL combined catalog can be viewed online at http://www.cool-cat.org/.

3/18/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
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ByWater Solutions Names Joy Nelson Director of Migrations

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to announce the promotion of Joy Nelson to Director of Migrations.

As Director of Migrations, Joy will be responsible for managing the migration team and processes. Her goal is to provide seamless data migrations for ByWater’s library partners to their new Koha systems.

North Bethesda, MD, March 13, 2013- LibLime announces the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.2.

LibLime Academic Koha 5.2 represents the innovation, ideas, and talents of many professional librarians within the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) group with whom LibLime enjoys working and with whom we look forward to a continued professional partnership in years to come.

The arrival of Academic Koha 5.2 includes substantial changes to the application, such as:

• Enhanced search functionality by integrating the Lucene Solr search engine

North Bethesda, MD, March 7, 2013- The Berthoud Community Library District, located in Berthoud, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is now live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog.

3/7/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

Three New Libraries Join VOKAL With ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Hartford, Bradford and St. Albans Libraries to the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL). All three libraries are now live on the Koha integrated library system through VOKAL.

3/1/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944

sales@bywatersolutions.com

Roseville Public Library Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Roseville Public Library in Roseville, California is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

North Bethesda, MD, February 28, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) in Lagos, Nigeria has chosen LibLime to provide them with support and hosting services for LibLime Koha 4.14. The NNMDA looks forward to taking advantage of the rich functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14, including enhanced circulation policies, the Solr search engine, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, and additional functionality for expired and cancelled holds.

North Bethesda, MD, February 20, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces Fort Scott Public Library has joined the SEKnFind union catalog and is live on the system.

Fort Scott Public Library is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS). SEKLS serves member libraries in over 60 communities in Southeast Kansas and several of those members participate in the SEKnFind union catalog.

North Bethesda, MD, February 14, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) announce the Institute of Audio Research (IAR) has gone live on LibLime Koha.

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Duluth, GA —February 14, 2013

Wayne County Public Library System has gone live on Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal consortium. Equinox Software oversaw both data migration and staff training. ESI will also continue to provide on-going system administration and technical support for the entire consortium.