LibLime

North Bethesda, MD, August 17, 2012 LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that seven new school libraries in the Rocky View School District (Alberta, Canada) have officially gone live on LibLime Koha.

With the addition of these seven libraries, 67,000 new bibliographic records and 93,000 items have been added to the district-wide LibLime Koha Union Catalog. Rocky View will be adding more than twenty additional school libraries over the next year.

About The Rocky View School District

North Bethesda, MD, August 2, 2012. The Roman L. and Victoria E. Hruska Memorial Public Library in David City, NE, went live this week on LibLime Koha 4.12 for all collection and patron management services. As a member of the Pioneer Consortium, Roman L. and Victoria E. Hruska Memorial Public Library staff worked with LibLime project managers and data specialists to migrate from the library’s older Follett system to the completely web-based LibLime Koha ILS.

About the Roman L. and Victoria E. Hruska Memorial Public Library

North Bethesda, MD, July 26, 2012: LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces Independence Community College has joined the SEKLS Koha union catalog.

Independence Community College 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.

Bethesda, MD, July 20, 2012 LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Athens Independent School District of Athens, Texas, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.10. The School District is running a union catalog with the combined collections of three elementary school libraries, one middle school library, and one high school library.

North Bethesda, MD, July 12, 2012 LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) announce the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.0. All WALDO member libraries will undergo production upgrades over the next few weeks.

North Bethesda, MD, July 5, 2012. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Family Planning - Positive Sexual Health, of Wellington, New Zealand, has chosen support from LibLime and a migration to LibLime Koha.

North Bethesda, MD, April 26, 2012. The Sump Memorial Library in Papillion, Nebraska has joined the Pioneer consortium in using LibLime Koha for all collection and patron management services. The Sump Memorial Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy Follett ILS system.

About the Sump Memorial Library

North Bethesda, MD. February 28, 2012. LibLime, a Division of PTFS and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization), announce that the Connecticut Historical Society has successfully migrated to LibLime Academic Koha.
The Connecticut Historical Society worked with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training.

ATLANTA – (January 18, 2012) – LYRASIS is pleased to announce the launch of FOSS4LIB (Free/Open Source Software for Libraries), a website dedicated to providing guidance about open source software for the library community.

With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LYRASIS Technology Services is leveraging the expertise of its open source development team and consulting staff to help librarians and technologists navigate through the planning, decision-making and implementation processes associated with open source. “Open source software enables libraries to improve their services in cost-effective ways. Through the FOSS4LIB website, library professionals will be able to more effectively assess and meet the needs of their staff and users through open source,” said Kate Nevins, Executive Director of LYRASIS.

Bethesda, MD, November 15, 2011 Valentine Independent School District (ISD), of Valentine Texas, has chosen LibLime Koha. Valentine ISD has selected LibLime as their vendor of choice to implement and support LibLime Koha, as their next generation, open development, Integrated Library System (ILS). The School District explored a variety of free and openly available ILS solutions and after extensive research, decided upon the LibLime Koha flavor, as it is the most feature rich and well-supported open development ILS available.