LibLime News
Wednesday May 16, 2012
All 159 Press Releases from LibLime
20 most recent items:
May 3, 2012. Poets House chooses LibLime Koha. LibLime announced that Poets House has selected LibLime as their vendor of choice to implement and support LibLime Koha, as their next generation, open source, Integrated Library System. LibLime will perform all of their implementation services including professional project management, data migration, system configuration, and staff training. Further, LibLime will provide annual maintenance, support and hosting in our distributed computing cloud platform. <<more>>
April 26, 2012. The Pioneer Consortium adds Papillion Public Library to LibLime Koha. The Sump Memorial Library in Papillion, Nebraska has joined the Pioneer consortium in using LibLime Koha for all collection and patron management services. The Sump Memorial Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy Follett ILS system. <<more>>
April 19, 2012. Pioneer Consortium adds The Beatrice Public Library to LibLime Koha. The Beatrice Public Library has joined the Pioneer Consortium in using LibLime Koha for all collection and patron management services. The Beatrice Public Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from Horizon. <<more>>
April 11, 2012. National Museum of Women in the Arts goes live on LibLime Koha 4.10. The National Museum of Women in the Arts is live on LibLime Koha 4.10. They are impressed with LibLime’s service and the quality of their professional staff. The Museum was able to migrate from their legacy Voyager system to LibLime Koha in just under four months, using LibLime’s efficient, streamlined, implementation processes. <<more>>
April 8, 2012. Pioneer Consortium grows to 24 libraries on LibLime Koha. LibLime announced the twenty fourth library of the Pioneer Consortium to join the Pioneer LibLime Koha union catalog. Since May of 2011, the Pioneer Consortium, a group of public libraries throughout Nebraska, has worked with LibLime to build a union catalog from separate ILS databases, and add member libraries. The original group of eleven public libraries went live on LibLime Koha on in the spring of 2011. At that point, the new union catalog had just over 300,000 bibliographic records and nearly 900,000 item records. <<more>>
April 4, 2012. Hong Kong Buddhist College choose LibLime Academic Koha. LibLime announces that the Hong Kong Buddhist College has selected LibLime as their vendor of choice to implement and support LibLime Academic Koha, as their next generation, open source, Integrated Library System. The College Library ran a tender for ILS vendors and LibLime won with the best technical and cost proposal. The College Library is pleased to be joining the growing ranks of academic libraries using and developing LibLime Academic Koha. <<more>>
March 28, 2012. Pioneer Consortium adds Superior Public Library to LibLime Koha. Superior Public Library has joined the Pioneer consortium in using LibLime Koha for all collection and patron management services. Superior Public Library staff worked with LibLime project managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from a Follet ILS product. <<more>>
February 28, 2012. LibLime and WALDO announce the Connecticut Historical Society is live on LibLime Academic Koha.. LibLime and WALDO announced that the Connecticut Historical Society has successfully migrated to LibLime Academic Koha. The Connecticut Historical Society worked with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training. <<more>>
February 16, 2012. LibLime takes Koha with Class directly to the students. LibLime takes Koha with Class a step further by getting more involved with the classes and students. Two of LibLime’s on staff librarians, Patrick Jones and Maria Laude, will be featured speakers in two different library school classes. They will be participating in WebEx sessions over the next few weeks to show the students general overviews of LibLime Koha and to discuss the business of open development ILS applications. <<more>>
February 9, 2012. Hasting Memorial Library goes live on LibLime Koha. Hastings Memorial Library have joined the Pioneer consortium are using LibLime Koha for all collection and patron management services. Hastings Memorial Library staff worked with LibLime project managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data out of a Horizon and into the Pioneer union catalog – powered by LibLime Koha. <<more>>
January 26, 2012. Huntsville Public Library live on LibLime Koha. LibLime announced that the Hunstville Public Library has successfully migrated to LibLime Koha. Huntsville Public Library staff worked with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training. LibLime also provided Huntsville with data conversion services and training. <<more>>
January 11, 2012. Henderson County Public Library goes live on LibLime Koha. LibLime, a Division of PTFS, announces that the Henderson County Public Library, of Athens, TX, has successfully migrated to LibLime Koha. Henderson County Public Library staff worked with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration and system configuration. LibLime also provided Henderson with data conversion services and training. <<more>>
December 8, 2011. LibLime Academic Koha to be used by University Students in Spring Semester 2012. Spring semester 2012, three schools are joining LibLime in the Koha with Class program. The three schools working with LibLime on this project include: The School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University; The Information School at the University of Washington Gallagher; and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Library school students at these three Universities – taking classes in library automation and technology systems -- will be studying the principles for design, selection, implementation and management of automated systems of all types in libraries. Each course will cover the use of ILSs for technical service processing, reference and user services, and management. Both courses will include presentations and demos from vendors and systems librarians and possible site visits to libraries using ILS systems in their day-to-day operations. <<more>>
November 29, 2011. Rocky View School District live on LibLime Koha. LibLime, a Division of PTFS, announces that the Rocky View School District has successfully migrated to LibLime Koha. The Rocky View School District worked with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training. LibLime also provided Rocky View with data conversion services by generating MARC records for thousands of descriptive records that were in non-MARC format. In addition, data was migrated for three libraries out of Follett and into LibLime Koha. <<more>>
November 16, 2011. Florida State Hospital selects LibLime Koha. Florida State Hospital, in Chattahoochee, Florida, has selected LibLime as their vendor of choice to implement and support LibLime Koha, as their next generation, open development, Integrated Library System. <<more>>
November 10, 2011. LibLime and WALDO Announce that LibLime Academic Koha 4.8 is now in production release and is already in use by dozens of LibLime academic library customers.. LibLime and WALDO announce the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 4.8. LibLime Academic Koha 4.8 has specific tools for authority records. With LibLime Academic Koha librarians can import MARC authority records, replace a brief or “stub” authority record with an updated record and link authority records to bibliographic records via the user interface. The workflow for managing this aspect of cataloging was designed by librarians and is user friendly and intuitive. <<more>>
October 11, 2011. Memphis College of Art is Live on LibLime Academic Koha. Memphis College of Art, in Memphis, Tennessee, has successfully implemented Koha with LibLime as their next generation, open source ILS. Library Director, Leslie Holland and her staff choose LibLime Academic Koha because of its rich functionality, designed by academic librarians, for academic librarians, and is eager to begin working with those academic librarians to continue development on LibLime Academic Koha. <<more>>
October 4, 2011. LibLime and WALDO Announce the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology has successfully migrated to LibLime Academic Koha. LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO announce that that the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in Boston, MA, is live on LibLime Academic Koha . LibLime provided all implementation services and will provide support services for MSPP. Having upgraded from the Athena system to LibLime Academic Koha, MSPP is enjoying all of the functional features designed and deployed by the WALDO Development Group and is taking full advantage of LibLime’s first-class support services. <<more>>
September 27, 2011. LibLime Koha is the choice of the U. S. Founding Fathers. The Founding Fathers Library Consortium is live on LibLime Koha. The Founding Father’s Library Consortium is a growing group of special libraries dedicated to preserving materials that document the lives and times of America’s founding fathers. Current members of the consortium include the library at George Washington’s Estate, Museum & Gardens and Gunston Hall Library. The library at Stratford Hall Plantation is scheduled to join in the future. <<more>>
September 23, 2011. American Craft Council goes live on LibLime Koha. LibLime announced that the American Craft Council successfully migrated to LibLime Koha. The American Craft Council worked with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training. LibLime also provided the ACC with data conversion services by generating MARC records for thousands of descriptive records that were in non-MARC format. Now that ACC is live on LibLime Koha, they will enjoy the benefits of LibLime’s support and hosting in our distributed computing cloud platform. <<more>>
September 15, 2011. LibLime Academic Koha to be used by the College of Information at the University of North Texas. University of North Texas’ mission is to generate, integrate, and disseminate knowledge in a learner-centered environment. The College of Information empowers individuals and organizations to create optimal learning environments for sharing knowledge and improving performance. <<more>>
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LibLime
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PO Box 892
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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 (314 libraries, 453 facilities in lib-web-cats)
Public libraries: 177
Academic libraries: 55
School libraries: 22
141 libraries have migrated away from this system.
A total of 453 library facilities included in lib-web-cats use an ILS provided by LibLime.
Corporate Chronology
| Mar 15, 2010 |
PTFS acquires LibLime from Metavore, Inc.. |
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| Jul 29, 2008 |
LibLime acquires assets of Care Affiliates. |
| Feb 29, 2008 |
LibLime closes its New Zealand office. |
| Feb 22, 2007 |
LibLime acquires Katipo Communications' Koha Division. |
| 2006 |
LibLime acquires the assets of Skemotah, Solutions. |
| Jan 2005 |
LibLime founded. |
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.