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Thursday Sep 2, 2010 
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September 2, 2010. National Bureau of Economic Research Content Available through EBSCO Discovery Service. EBSCO Discovery Service customers will have access to content from the National Bureau of Economic Research -- expanding the list of information accessible from within the discovery service. Due to a recent agreement with NBER, EBSCO Discovery Service, from EBSCO Publishing, now indexes more than 20,000 working papers, conference papers and monographs published by the NBER since 1920. <<more>>
September 2, 2010. The Bibliothèque nationale de France adds 200 millionth bibliographic record to WorldCat. The Bibliothèque nationale de France added the 200 millionth bibliographic record to the WorldCat database on August 27, 39 years after the OCLC online union catalog and shared cataloging system was launched. WorldCat continues to grow faster than ever. In the fiscal year that ended on June 30, libraries added 56 million records to WorldCat. <<more>>
August 31, 2010. AlburyCity LibraryMuseum implements LIBERO Version 6. AlburyCity LibraryMuseum is the most recent site to convert to the web-based version of LIBERO, Version 6. The library has selected a hosted model deployment, outsourcing network infrastructure,software maintenance and administration to LIBERO product experts and technical staff in Brisbane. <<more>>
August 31, 2010. Grant MacEwan University Chooses EBSCO Discovery Service. Grant MacEwan University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service as its library discovery solution. As a long time EBSCO Publishing customer, MacEwan was confident that EBSCO's familiar interface and deep content coverage would provide a strong foundation upon which to launch its new discovery service. <<more>>
August 30, 2010. The C.G. Jung Institute of San Fransisco partners with ByWater Solutions for Koha support and Implementation. ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, CA. has partnered with them for the implementation and support of their official Koha integrated library system installation. <<more>>
August 30, 2010. The National Library of Finland selects Primo and Primo Central from Ex Libris for nationwide use. Ex Libris announced that the National Library of Finland has chosen the Primo discovery and delivery solution and the Primo Central mega-index of scholarly materials, to provide a unified interface for the discovery and delivery of the entire country’s collections and electronic resources. Representing the full spectrum of museums, academic and public libraries, research institutes and archives, the National Library of Finland chose Primo as the public interface from which users can access digital content and local collections throughout the country. Following a thorough competitive tender process, Primo was ultimately the only solution that met all of the network’s extensive requirements for comprehensive search technology and impartial access to scholarly global content. <<more>>
August 28, 2010. British Library to share millions of catalogue records. The British Library is to make its extensive collections of bibliographic records available for free to researchers and other libraries. The UK national library has around 14 million catalogue records comprising a wealth of bibliographic data. The initiative announced today will help expose this vast dataset to users worldwide, allowing researchers and other libraries to access and retrieve bibliographic records for publications dating back centuries and relating to every conceivable subject area. The new free service will operate in parallel to the British Library's priced bulk MARC data supply activity which is used extensively by large commercial customers. <<more>>
August 26, 2010. American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities E-Book Goes Live with Koha . The American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities E-Book has gone live with Koha. Equinox Software is providing hosting services and performed the initial data migration. <<more>>
August 26, 2010. Pennsylvania moves toward statewide open source library system. HSLC/Access PA, managers of the Access PA Union Catalog and interlibrary loan systems, has announced its intention to migrate an initial group of public libraries to an Evergreen open source integrated library system beginning in 2010. This group of public libraries currently shares an Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Millennium library system managed by HSLC in Philadelphia. HSLC has signed a contract with Equinox (original developers of the Evergreen software) for data enhancement and training services, and has received letters of intent from 39 public and 8 school libraries that plan to participate in the project. <<more>>
August 25, 2010. Northwest Arkansas Community College chooses Koha. LibLime announced that the Pauline Whitaker Library at North West Arkansas Community College, located in Bentonville, AR, has successfully migrated to Koha. <<more>>
August 25, 2010. International Development Research Centre Selects Relais ILL Hosted Service. Relais International announced that the International Development Research Centre based in Ottawa, Canada has selected the Relais ILL Hosted Service. IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies. <<more>>
August 25, 2010. Bibliotheca Expands U.S. Service and Support with Pitney Bowes . Bibliotheca announced a collaboration with Pitney Bowes to expand the company's geographical coverage and expert resources for serving library customers throughout the U.S. Providing coverage in every zip code nationwide, Pitney Bowes’s high-tech customer service professionals will be trained and certified by Bibliotheca to provide installation, on-site repair and maintenance, and technical support to Bibliotheca's growing RFID customer base. <<more>>
August 24, 2010. Chadron State College looking to EBSCO Discovery Service to augment its information literacy goals. Chadron State College has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) as part of its overall goal to improve information literacy. The college was looking to wean students off typical search engines while encouraging students to access valuable library resources by reducing the intimidation factor that searching the OPAC typically causes. <<more>>
August 20, 2010. A Nation of LIBERO Users Gather LIBERO User Group 2010. Representatives from 130-plus Australian Libraries will gather at the national LIBERO User Group 2010 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales next month. <<more>>
August 18, 2010. Thirteen Public Libraries in Kansas Select AGent VERSO. Auto-Graphics announced that both the North Central Kansas Library System and the NorthWest Kansas Library System have expanded their contracts to offer the AGent VERSO integrated library system to 13 additional public libraries throughout Kansas. This contract expansion brings the total number of libraries in Kansas using AGent VERSO up to 89. <<more>>
August 18, 2010. DeKalb County Public Library (GA) Selects Encore. DeKalb County Public Library has selected Encore and will implement Innovative's discovery platform with the SirsiDynix Horizon ILS. <<more>>
August 17, 2010. Drake University Chooses EBSCO Discovery Service. Drake University and Cowles Library have selected EBSCO Discovery Service to enhance access to scholarly information. The customizable resource from EBSCO Publishing will be known as Cowles SuperSearch. Cowles SuperSearch will search across multiple databases, the library's catalog, as well as Drake's Institutional Repository. <<more>>
August 17, 2010. Taiga and CLIR/ DLF Align for Broader Community Benefit. The Council on Library and Information Resources’ Digital Library Federation Program announced a new affiliation with the Taiga Forum, a community of assistant/associate university librarians and associate deans who meet to share ideas and strategies for developing organizational structures for research and academic libraries that are more flexible, agile, and effective. A hallmark of the DLF is its function as a connection point between communities. By partnering with Taiga, DLF strengthens its ability to facilitate conversations between administrators and developers/project managers. <<more>>
August 17, 2010. Yellowhead Regional Library Announces iPad Application. Polaris customer Yellowhead Regional Library announced the availability of its iPad application, YourLibrary, from the Apple store. The free app enables staff and patrons to search and place a hold in the library's catalog from their iPad, as well as find similar titles provided by NoveList Select. Yellowhead Regional Library, located in Alberta, Canada, is part of The Regional Automation Consortium. TRAC released an iPhone app, TRACpac, to the iTunes store on March 2 of this year. <<more>>
August 17, 2010. Chevreau to Lead Innovative's North American Sales Efforts. Innovative Interfaces, Inc.announced the promotion of Mary Chevreau to Vice President, North American Sales effective August 9th. In her new role, her responsibilities will expand from her previous position responsible for North American customer sales to all sales operations in North America. In this capacity, Chevreau will report directly to Neil Block who was recently promoted to President of Innovative Interfaces. <<more>>
August 16, 2010. GIST Gift and Deselection Manager (GDM) Has Been Released and is available for download. The GIST Team at SUNY Geneseo College has released a free and innovative open-source tool called the GIST Gift and Deselection Manager, or GDM. It is designed to manage and streamline library work-flow for processing gifts and evaluating materials for weeding. <<more>>
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New Guide for ILS Marketshare and Migrations
I've created a new resource page for Library Technology Guides. This page brings together a number of reports and other materials that provide information related to the ILS products used in libraries.
It's helpful to know how widely a given integrated library system has been deployed. Library Technology Guides attempts to track the ILS products deployed in libraries through the lib-web-cats directory. Lib-web-cats includes fields for the current ILS used in each library as well as any previous systems, along with the year implemented. While not comprehensive for all regions of the world, we have sufficient data to represent most major trends.
This guide page includes summaries of the ILS products used by the members of the Association of Research Libraries, the Urban Libraries Council, marketshare reports of ILS deployments for many major countries and all US states, and a report that shows ILS migration trends based on current and previous products used.
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