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700 Dollars and a Dream : Take a Chance on Koha, There’s Very Little to Lose

I truly believe that the meekest amongst us has a special duty and a special circumstance that fosters innovation. Ours is not the culture of red tape entrenched tradition, but rather the atmosphere of the pioneer. No one will notice a failed experiment in the middle of nowhere, but they’ll certainly notice a cataloguer someplace in Edema making a dent in backwards standards. by BWS Johnson

Dawn of a New Era

Library Journal's Roy Tennant talks about the growing open-source movement in the U.S.

Librarians stake their future on open source

A group of librarians at the Georgia Public Library Service has developed an open source, enterprise-class library management system that may revolutionize the way large-scale libraries are run.

Evergreen: Your Homegrown ILS

About three years ago, the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) looked for a new integrated library system (ILS) to serve its large consortial group of libraries across the state and found its needs frustrated by the commercial ILS market. This September 5, it debuted a new library system and catalog.

Giving Homegrown Software Its Due

Something rather exciting happened this fall in the world of the integrated library system. (That’s somethin’ coming from me, eh?) After considering giving it a brief announcement in the “Quick Clicks” section, or a slightly longer treatment in the occasional “Open Source Watch” section, I decided that this really deserved a little something more. On September 5, 252 public libraries in Georgia’s Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES) went live with Evergreen, a homegrown and open-source ILS. Impressive.

Katipo annouces a new partner

As part of our ongoing effort to deliver more and better services to our library clients, Katipo is pleased to announce a partnership with Liblime.

Dorothy Gets a New Pair of Shoes

LibLime, a new company formed to support the integrated library system Koha, has joined forces with Index Data

Koha still wooing librarians around the world

Koha (the Maori word for gift) had grown hugely since it was written.

An Industry Redefined

Private equity moves into the ILS, and open source support emerges -- By Marshall Breeding for Library Journal

Thinking About Your Next OPAC

by Marshall Breeding (Computers in Libraries, April 2007: 28-30)

PALINET and LibLime Partner to Offer Open Source Options

Responding to member interest, PALINET is partnering with LibLime to offer PALINET members discounted pricing for set-up and support for Koha Integrated Library System.

Enterprise Open Source

--Schneider, Karen G. "The truly significant activity in LibraryLand technology [...] has been the maturation of what I call “enterprise open source”: products such as Evergreen and Koha that are robust, well-implemented library automation packages with strong development communities and equally strong funded-support models."

How Open Source Software Can Improve Our Library

by Eric Hebert

LibLime Signs Kansas and Indiana Consortia

More libraries making the move to open source ILS system By Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 10/1/2007

Nicole C. Engard talks to Talis (podcast)

Nicole C. Engard talks with Talis about open source and joining LibLime as "Open Source Evangelist"...

Library Geeks 012 - LibLime and Koha

Daniel Chudnov interviews LibLime's Joshua Ferraro (CEO), Debra Denault (Operations Manager), and Chris Cormack about their work with LibLime and the Koha ILS project.

Open Source ILS Gains Ground with Academic Libraries.

Check out Marshall Breeding's article entitled: "Open Source ILS Gains Ground with Academic Libraries." ...In the February 2008 issue of Smart Libraries Newsletter! "Until now, the open-source ILS implementations have taken place primarily in public libraries, with no large academic libraries in the U.S. or Canada making the leap." That situation changed recently, however, with WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) and Laurentian Univ. in Ontario. "The commitment of these academic libraries to implement open-source automation systems warrants attention, because it appears to be the beginning of a trend," Breeding reports in "Open Source ILS Gains Ground with Academic Libraries."

Automation System Marketplace 2008: Opportunity Out of Turmoil

As the industry consolidates, competition heats up to provide next-generation catalogs, and open source enters the mainstream -- Marshall Breeding's annual Automation Marketplace Survey