LibLime News

Friday May 24, 2013

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May 16, 2013. The Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency goes live on LibLime Koha 4.14. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency in Lagos, Nigeria is now live on LibLime Koha 4.14. <<more>>

May 9, 2013. Haxtun Public Library joins LibLime Koha and the Colorado Library Consortium. The Haxtun Public Library, located in Haxtun, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is scheduled to go live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog. <<more>>

May 1, 2013. La Veta Public Library goes live on LibLime Koha 4.14. The La Veta Public Library, located in La Veta, Colorado and a member of the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), is now live in the AspenCat LibLime Koha Union Catalog for all collection and patron management services. The La Veta Public Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy ILS system. With the addition of the La Veta Public Library to CLiC, there are now over 627,000 items and over 368,000 bibliographic records in the CLiC LibLime Koha Union Catalog. <<more>>

April 30, 2013. Lester Public Library of the South Central Library System (SCLS) goes live on LibLime Koha 4.14. The Lester Public Library of Arpin, located in Arpin, WI, has joined the South Central Library System (SCLS) LibLime Koha union catalog for all collection and patron management services. <<more>>

April 17, 2013. Rocky View School District adds six new libraries to its LibLime Koha Union Catalog. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Rocky View School District is adding six more libraries to its district-wide LibLime Koha union catalog. Bow Valley High School, Bert Church High School, Prince of Peace Lutheran School, Nose Creek Elementary School, Mitford Middle School, and Banded Peak School will be the newest school libraries to join the Rocky View LibLime Koha union catalog. <<more>>

April 11, 2013. LibLime successfully finishes Pioneer Consortium Catalog migration. With the inclusion of the Arapahoe Public Library bibliographic, patron, and circulation transaction records, LibLime has completed the Pioneer Consortium Phase One library migration project. All of the member libraries are now live on LibLime Koha 4.14. <<more>>

April 4, 2013. LibLime, a Division of PTFS, announces the public release of LibLime Koha 4.14. LibLime announces the public release of LibLime Koha 4.14. LibLime Koha 4.14 has been in beta production release among sponsoring libraries since the Fall of 2012. After completing a rigorous beta testing phase, the application is now publicly available for all as a download. Release Notes are available at each site. The source code is also available for public access in the LibLime unified git repository. <<more>>

March 27, 2013. South Sioux City Public Library joins the Pioneer Consortium and goes live on LibLime Koha 4.14. The South Sioux City Public Library, located in South Sioux City, NE, has joined the Pioneer Consortium and is now live on LibLime Koha 4.14 for all collection and patron management services. <<more>>

March 21, 2013. Ryan Higgins, original LibLime Owner, returns to LibLime as Software Engineer. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announced that Ryan Higgins, one of the original owners of LibLime, has returned to the LibLime-PTFS team full time as a software engineer. <<more>>

March 13, 2013. LibLime, a division of PTFS, debuts LibLime Academic Koha 5.2 Date 3/13/2013. LibLime announces the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.2. LibLime Academic <<more>>

March 6, 2013. Berthoud Community Library District goes Live on LibLime Koha 4.14. The Berthoud Community Library District, located in Berthoud, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is now live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog. <<more>>

March 2, 2013. LibLime, a division of PTFS, debuts LibLime Academic Koha 5.4. LibLime announces the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.4. LibLime Academic Koha 5.4 represents the innovation, ideas, and talents of many professional librarians within the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) group with whom LibLime enjoys working and with who we look forward to a continued professional partnership in years to come. <<more>>

February 28, 2013. The Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency selects LibLime and LibLime Koha 4.14. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency in Lagos, Nigeria has chosen LibLime to provide them with support and hosting services for LibLime Koha 4.14. The NNMDA looks forward to taking advantage of the rich functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14, including enhanced circulation policies, the Solr search engine, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, and additional functionality for expired and cancelled holds. As with all versions of LibLime Koha since 4.8, the entire application resides in the Plack environment for enhanced performance. <<more>>

February 20, 2013. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces Fort Scott Public Library has joined the SEKLS Koha union catalog. LibLime announces Fort Scott Public Library has joined the SEKnFind union catalog and is live on the system. Fort Scott Public Library is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System. SEKLS serves member libraries in over 60 communities in Southeast Kansas and several of those members participate in the SEKnFind union catalog. <<more>>

February 14, 2013. LibLime and WALDO announce the Institute of Audio Research is live on LibLime Academic Koha 5.2. LibLime and the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization announce the Institute of Audio Research has gone live on LibLime Koha. <<more>>

February 6, 2013. Millennia Atlantic University goes live on LibLime Koha 4.14. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Millennia Atlantic University (MAU), located in Doral, Florida, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.14. The University Library will take advantage of the Solr search engine in 4.14, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, and additional functionality for expired and cancelled holds. As with all versions of LibLime Koha since 4.8, the entire application resides in the Plack environment for enhanced performance. <<more>>

January 30, 2013. Norwood Public Library joins LibLime Koha and the Colorado Library Consortium. The Norwood Public Library, located in Norwood, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is scheduled to go live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog. <<more>>

January 23, 2013. Rocky View School District adds five new libraries to their LibLime Koha Union Catalog. LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Rocky View School District is adding five more libraries to their district-wide LibLime Koha union catalog. <<more>>

January 17, 2013. Conejos County Library District goes live on LibLime Koha. The Conejos County Library District, located in La Jara and Antonito, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is now live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog. <<more>>

January 10, 2013. LibLime and WALDO Announce the University of Advancing Technology is live with LibLime Academic Koha 5.0. LibLime and WALDO announce the University of Advancing Technology has gone live on LibLime Academic Koha 5.0. <<more>>

January 8, 2013. LibLime, a division of PTFS, debuts LibLime Academic Koha 5.2 and raffles off a Nook Simple Touch at Midwinter ALA. LibLime will raffle off a Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight Reader and debut the release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.2 at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting from January 25-28 in Seattle, Washington. Conference attendees are encouraged to visit the LibLime at Booth 636 and drop off a business card to enter to win the Nook Simple Touch Reader. The drawing will be held Monday, January 28. <<more>>

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LibLime

PO Box 892
Athens, OH 4570
United States
Toll free: 888-564-2457
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Web site: http://liblime.com
Email: info@liblime.com

Executives

Susan Buchanan -- Vice President, Library Partners
Ryan Higgins -- President, Products
Patrick Jones -- Executive Director
Sean McIntyre -- Engineering Manager

Company Ownership

Owned by Metavore, Inc., a privately held Ohio Corporation

Library automation systems

LibLime offers the following Integrated Library Systems:

Koha -- LibLime (276 libraries, 384 facilities in lib-web-cats)
Public libraries: 137
Academic libraries: 57
School libraries: 21
200 libraries have migrated away from this system.

A total of 384 library facilities included in lib-web-cats use an ILS provided by LibLime.

Corporate Chronology

Mar 15, 2010	PTFS acquires LibLime from Metavore, Inc.. PTFS, an industry-leading library solutions provider and developer of the ArchivalWare digital library and content management software, has acquired LibLime, the global leader in open-source software solutions for libraries. Combining the PTFS and Liblime Koha operations will bring nearly 150 organizations totaling over 700 libraries into the PTFS Koha customer support group. The acquisition establishes PTFS as the world’s largest company providing open-source ILS solutions for libraries.
Jul 29, 2008	LibLime acquires assets of Care Affiliates.
Feb 29, 2008	LibLime closes its New Zealand office. Russel Garlic, the General Manager of the NZ office, and Chris Cormack, Vice President Research and Development leave LibLime for other opportunities. LibLime closes New Zealand office, providing support for its customers in that region through its US operations.
Feb 22, 2007	LibLime acquires Katipo Communications' Koha Division. LibLime acquires Katipo Communications' Koha Division, the organization that originally created Koha for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand.
2006	LibLime acquires the assets of Skemotah, Solutions. LibLime acquired the assets of Skemotah, Solutions, a US-based Koha support company operated by Stephen Hedges.
Jan 2005	LibLime founded. LibLime founded by former staff from Nelsonville Public Library.

Key Articles from Library Technology Guides

The following are a sample of articles related to the major events in the corporate history of LibLime, or you can view all articles related to the company from Library Technology Guides.

Library Technology Guides