Moffat Schools Production Load Goes Live on CLiC AspenCat Bibliovation Union Catalog

North Bethesda, MD, September 4, 2014- Moffat Consolidated School District 2, located in Moffat, CO, is now live on the AspenCat LBibliovation Union Catalog for all collection and patron management services. With the accumulation of Moffat School District, the CLiC AspenCat union catalog now has over 500,000 bibliographic records and 900,000 items. The Moffat School District staff has worked with LibLime Project Management to successfully transfer bibliographic, item, and patron data to the Bibliovation application.

About Moffat Consolidated School District 2
The Moffat Consolidated School District 2 is located in Saguache County, Colorado. The school district is home to approximately 2400 students and is made up of five Elementary Schools, a Middle School, a High School, and an Early Childhood Center. According to the Moffat County School District’s mission “Academic achievement is given top priority”, which is exactly what AspenCat Bibliovation is going to assist the school district in achieving through this new service.

About the CLiC Consortium

The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, serves over 450 libraries throughout the state, many of which also belong to the AspenCat Bibliovation union catalog. Currently the CLiC database includes over 800,000 items. Resource sharing is one of the key components of the system with libraries requesting over 1,200 items from each other every month. Requests are growing as more patrons discover how easy it is to request an item not held at his or her home library. CLiC is committed to maintaining AspenCat as a fully featured, patron-focused system. In partnership with the Colorado State Library, AspenCat offers integration with external databases using EZproxy, integration through the State Library’s Plinkit-based web site hosting service, and interconnectivity with SWIFT, the statewide ILL system. AspenCat also currently offers a cooperative purchase for downloadable audio books from Recorded Books and eBooks from the 3M Library Cloud system. For more information, please contact Bob Benhoff at 303-422-1150 or bbennhoff@clicweb.org.

About LibLime
LibLime, a division of PTFS, is the global leader in providing support for open development Library Service Platforms (LSP). Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, LibLime educates libraries about the benefits of open development, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. LibLime then facilitates deployment of the LSP in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting services. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, Knowvation, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization and metadata keying services. For more information, see https://liblime.com or https://ptfs.com.