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Friday Sep 10, 2010 
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September 10, 2010. Encore Synergy Provides Salt Lake City Public Library (UT) with Three Home Runs. Innovative Interfaces announced today that Salt Lake City Public Library (UT) is live with Encore Synergy, the product that brings the whole library--books, articles, and more--to users with a single search. <<more>>
September 9, 2010. K-12 Districts Seeking Textbook Management Solution Actively Turning to Follett Software’s Destiny Product . Follett Software Company’s Destiny Textbook Manager has been newly implemented by another 50 K-12 districts, which raises the number of districts to adopt the market-leading textbook management solution to 950, encompassing nearly 12,000 schools nationally. <<more>>
September 8, 2010. Rein van Charldorp to retire, Eric van Lubeek named as next managing director of OCLC Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Rein van Charldorp has announced his decision to retire as Managing Director of OCLC Europe, the Middle East and Africa effective December 31, 2010. Eric van Lubeek, currently Director of Sales and Operations for OCLC EMEA, will work with Dr. van Charldorp in transition and prepare to assume responsibilities as OCLC EMEA Managing Director effective January 1, 2011. <<more>>
September 7, 2010. Indiana University selects EBSCO Discovery Service. Indiana University Bloomington has selected EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing to expand the purpose and functionality of its library website. The university wanted its website to provide users with the search experience they expect to find from the library—moving beyond lists of library hours and resources to actual results. The university’s long relationship with EBSCO led IU librarians to be EDS beta testers and once they saw the interface, and the potential being discussed by EBSCO, they realized that EDS might be what they needed to make their website a starting place for users. <<more>>
September 6, 2010. EOS International Receives the 2010 Colorado Association of Libraries Award. EOS International, the leading provider of library automation solutions, has been nominated by Ross Kimbrel, Interim Director of Educational Services at CDOC, and selected by the CAL Awards Committee as the recipient of the 2010 Colorado Association of Libraries Library Community Partnership Award. This award encourages collaboration and community partnerships by recognizing achievements in planning and implementing collaborative library programs or services between Colorado libraries, or between a Colorado library and a business, organization, group or individual. <<more>>
September 6, 2010. ProQuest Appoints Gersch to Lead Serials Solutions. Respected information industry pro Michael Gersch has been named ProQuest Senior Vice President and General Manager of business unit Serials Solutions, the industry leader in providing libraries with digital discovery tools and integrated management solutions. Mr. Gersch succeeds Rob Mercer, who has chosen to move to another senior role within ProQuest and will lead Serials Solutions’ burgeoning worldwide sales effort as Vice-President, Global Sales. Mr. Gersch is part of ProQuest’s senior executive team and reports to CEO Marty Kahn. <<more>>
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 31, 2010. La médiathèque de la ville de Nîmes est en production avec Koha. Depuis le début Juillet, la médiathèque de la ville de Nîmes est passée sous Koha en ayant migré de Loris. <<more>>
August 31, 2010. Nîmes public libraries now live with Koha. BibLibre announce that at the beginning of July, Nîmes Public Libraries successfully migrated from Loris to Koha and are now live. <<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>>
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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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