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Contra Costa County Library implements CARL•XDENVER (Feb. 18, 2010) – The Contra Costa County Library, a nationally recognized library system basedin Pleasant Hill, Calif., recently migrated from The Library Corporation’s CARL•Solution automation systemto its next-generation successor, CARL•X, to better serve the community's increasing demand for cutting-edge technologies and services.

YourLibrarySite (http://www.yourlibrarysite.com) now provides expanded online technology services for Academic, Special, and Public libraries. A well-established participant and core development contributor in the Drupal open source community; YourLibrarySite (YLS) is also co-maintainer of the SOPAC 2 module (http://thesocialopac.net/), a community-driven online catalog display layer.

SOMERDALE, NJ, February 1, 2010: Library Automation Technologies, Inc. (LAT), a leader in library automation products, is pleased to announce that Califa, a membership-based service bureau for California libraries, has accepted LAT as a provider of automation equipment to its members.

LibraryWorld, a leading Web-based library and collection management system, has expanded user options for customizing catalog reports, patron lists, and overdue letter reports. These enhancements are immediately available to new customers and the more than 2,000 libraries who manage their collections using LibraryWorld’s secure online portal.

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. (Jan. 27, 2010) – Tech Logic now offers newly designed TAGSYS Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) security gates that offer advanced protection through high-performance read range and speed.

The L-SP3 security gates use advanced digital signal processing and RF front-end technology to achieve breakthrough performance in read range and read speed, providing enhanced security protection to libraries. The new L-SP3 security system integrates the latest RFID reader electronics for optimal detection performance and consists of two aesthetic options:

January 25, 2010, Medford, NJ—Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced the publication of The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher, Third Edition by award-winning author and internet trainer Randolph “Ran” Hock.

INWOOD, W.Va. (Nov. 11, 2009) – The Library Corporation (TLC) has optimized its LS2 PAC software to work with Google Analytics™, the popular service that tracks Web traffic and trends.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 – Readers and researchers looking for hard-to-find books now have the opportunity to dip into the collections of one of the world’s most comprehensive libraries to purchase digitized copies of public domain titles. Through their Digitize-on-Demand program, Kirtas Technologies has partnered with The New York Public Library to make 500,000 public domain works from the Library’s collections available (to anyone in the world).

BUFFALO, NY--September 18, 2009 -- LISHost (http://lishost.org/), the leader in web hosting for librarians & libraries, announced today that Karen A. Coombs has joined LISHost as the Web Applications Specialist. In her role at LISHost, Coombs will work with libraries and librarians to identify and implemented open source web applications to meet their needs.

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San Francisco, CA - September 10, 2009

Responding to the increasing use of virtual reference services amongst patrons and the massive industry-wide adoption of social media as a must-have presence for libraries, Mosio launches RefStart: A dynamic, web-based mobile reference utility to help manage virtual reference, social media and online search.