Catalogs/OPACs/ILSs

New System Improves Public Access at Mississippi Department of Archives and History

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, located in Jackson, Miss., went live in August with its installation of the Koha integrated library system in the state’s archives and historical library. ByWater Solutions will provide ongoing support for MDAH.


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Norcross, GA —August 25, 2011

Ducks Unlimited Canada has gone live with the open source integrated library system Koha. Equinox Software, Inc. provided services to migrate the library's data from their previous system and provides on-going hosting and support services for the new Koha-powered catalog which can be viewed at http://ducks.kohacatalog.com/.

Bethesda, MD – August 24, 2011 – Upon completing a thorough RFP process, Huntsville Public Library, Ontario, Canada has selected LibLime as their vendor of choice to implement and support LibLime Koha, as their next generation, open development, Integrated Library System (ILS).

Valparaiso Public Library has joined the Pioneer consortium and selected LibLime Koha as their new ILS. The library will be migrating from a hosted Follett Destiny system. The Pioneer LibLime Koha union catalog includes over 430,000 bibliographic records; over 1.1 million items; and also provides support to member libraries using various 3rd party complimentary applications such as telephone renewals, self-checkout machines, and PC reservation software.

8/23/2011
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Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

The C.G. Jung Institute of New York Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that C.G. Jung Institute of New York, NY. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

The Kristine Mann Library's Koha installation went live in late July, and ByWater Solutions will be providing ongoing support and hosting services for them.

LibLime Announces New Features in LibLime Academic Koha
“By Academic Librarians for Academic Librarians”

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Norcross, GA —August 17, 2011

The community of Evergreen libraries has had a busy six months (January through June, 2011) owing to the addition of 114 library systems with 140 separate branches and outlets. This six-month experience eclipsed the growth seen in the community in any previous year.

In July, a blog post detailed cumulative summary numbers in the growth of Evergreen since its first libraries were migrated in 2006. See the “State of Evergreen, June 30, 2011” (http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=602).

In August, 2011 students at the Documentation Research & Training Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute, at the Bangalore Centre (DRTC) will be using LibLime Academic Koha as part of their coursework. DRTC is a premier library science school in India, founded by father of library science in India, Dr. S.R.Ranganathan. DRTC offers 2 year M.S. program in library and information science.
Students in Professor K. S. Raghavan’s “Cataloging Theory and Practice” course will have access to their own production ILS to assist them in completing their coursework.

8/16/2011
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

ByWater Solutions Welcomes Melia Meggs as Operations Manager

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company is proud to welcome Melia Meggs as their Operations Manager. Melia will be working as a project and communications manager for ByWater, and will facilitate communication and operations for the migration and development departments, as well as contribute to the everyday support of ByWater's three hundred-plus library customers.

LibLime Announces New Features in LibLime Academic Koha
“By Academic Librarians for Academic Librarians”