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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA – April 13, 2011
Burlington Public Library, La Conner Public Library, and the Upper Skagit Library District have gone live on Evergreen as a newly formed consortium, Skagit Evergreen Libraries. Equinox Software performed installation, data migration, and staff training, and will continue to provide technical support.
Located in Skagit County, Washington, the Skagit Evergreen Libraries provide service to about 15,000 patrons. Their new combined catalog consists of almost 80,000 bibliographic items.

Issue 13 of the Code4Lib Journal has been published. See http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue13 for these fine articles:

4/12/2011
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The Three Rivers Regional Library System Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Three Rivers Regional Library System of Mayo, FL. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

Bethesda, MD - April 8, 2011 – Students at the University of Washington’s, Information School, will begin utilizing LibLime Koha this spring, in their Library Technology Systems course through LibLime's Koha with Class program.

LibLime will provide the class of approximately 20 students, with a hosted installation of Koha, free of charge. This will allow the students unlimited access and all privileges associated with the staff end of Koha as well as all OPAC functionality for the duration of the course.

Susan Buchanan Appointed Director of Global Marketing and Sales for LibLime

Bethesda, MD - April 7, 2011 - LibLime, a division of PTFS is proud to introduce Susan Buchanan as their new Director of Marketing and Sales.

3/29/2011
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ByWater Solutions Welcomes Larry Baerveldt as Systems Engineer

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company is proud to welcome Larry Baerveldt as their new Systems Engineer. Larry will be in charge of optimizing ByWater's hosting platforms and will specialize in maximizing system performance for both their hosted and non-hosted customer installations. Larry will also be taking part in the day to day support of ByWater's customer installations.

Bethesda, MD - March 28, 2011 - The American Craft Council in Minneapolis, Minnesota has contracted with LibLime to migrate to Koha, the premiere open source ILS for libraries.

Migrating from their legacy InMagic system, the Council will join LibLime’s growing family of special libraries. The Council has selected LibLime to perform all of their implementation services including professional project management, data migration, system configuration, staff training, and will help the Library brand and customize their web site.

Bethesda, MD – March 28, 2011 – The Bay School in San Francisco, California has selected LibLime as their vendor of choice to implement Koha, the open source ILS for libraries.

March 23nd 2011
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Plumas County Library System Now Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Plumas County Library System of Plumas County, CA. is now live on their official Koha integrated library system.

Bethesda, MD – March 17, 2011 – Yates Center Public Library, in Yates Center, Kansas has successfully implemented Koha with LibLime as their next generation, open source ILS. Yates Public Library is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS). SEKLS serves member libraries in over 60 cities in Southeast Kansas and several of those members participate in a Koha union catalog.