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Sunday Sep 5, 2010 
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September 3, 2010. Innovative now in over 50 Countries. nnovative announced that the company's worldwide presence has expanded to 52 countries. The company achieved this milestone with the addition of the following new customers: Cyprus University of Technology and Neapolis University Pafos (Cyprus); Al-Arab Medical University (Libya); and Bahrain Polytechnic (Kingdom of Bahrain). <<more>>
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>>
September 2, 2010. LibLime and WALDO Announce, the Bank Street College of Education has migrated to Koha. LibLime, and WALDO announced that the Bank Street College of Education located in New York City, has begun using Koha as their new integrated library system. The Bank Street Library has selected the LibLime fully-managed Koha package. In this model, the system is installed, operated and maintained at one of LibLime’s carrier-class data centers. LibLime has provided Bank Street with installation, data migration, systems configuration, ongoing maintenance, software development and staff training. Joining the WALDO consortium will enable the Bank Street Library to take advantage of the discounts available to WALDO members for LibLime services. <<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 31, 2010. NISO Publishes CORE Protocol to Facilitate the Transfer of Cost and Related Financial Information Between ILS and ERMS. NISO announced the publication of its latest Recommended Practice, CORE: Cost of Resource Exchange Protocol (NISO RP-10-2010). This Recommended Practice defines an XML schema to facilitate the exchange of financial information related to the acquisition of library resources between systems, such as an ILS and an ERMS. <<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 26, 2010. EBSCO Publishing Extends Text-to-Speech Feature to All EBSCOhost Databases . EBSCO Publishing has added text-to-speech support to EBSCOhost databases, including its major school and public library databases, by embedding Texthelp System' SpeechStream toolbar—a valuable benefit provided at no additional cost to the user. Users will be able to take advantage of this new feature with any full-text articles available in HTML. <<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 25, 2010. The kibbutz movement’s leading archives select the IDEA@Arc system by IDEA Information Systems to expose the kibbutz movement’s heritage and archives on the Internet. The first stage of the new archives network includes four of the kibbutz movement’s leading ar-chives: Yad Yaari – HaShomer HaTzair Institute for Research and Documentation, Yad Tabenkin - Research and Documentation Center of the United Kibbutz Movement, Moreshet - Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center, whose archives are already auto-mated using IDEA@Arc, and The Kibbutz Institute for Holidays and Jewish Culture, whose ar-chives will be cataloged and automated from scratch, in compliance with the ISAD(G) internation-al archive standard, as part of the project with IDEA@Arc. <<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 24, 2010. Dialog Launches All-New Search Service . Dialog, a leader in online information services for professional searchers, launched the first release of the ProQuest Dialog service, an important milestone toward unifying Dialog and DataStar while simplifying access and searching of their breadth of content. The move emphasizes ProQuest’s continuing investment in reinventing the acclaimed brand. ProQuest Dialog offers an intuitive search interface for end users, combined with a new approach to precision search based on relevancy, transparency, control and completeness – traits sought by professional searchers. <<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>>
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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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