Kiowa County District Library Goes Live on CLiC AspenCat Bibliovation Union Catalog

North Bethesda, MD, October 30, 2014-The Kiowa County District Library is now live on the AspenCat Bibliovation union catalog for all collection and patron management services. With the accumulation of Center Consolidated Schools, the CLiC AspenCat union catalog now has over 530,000 bibliographic records and 960,000 items. Dolores Public Library staff has worked with LibLime Project Management to successfully transfer bibliographic, item, and patron data to the Bibliovation application.

About Kiowa County District Library
The Kiowa County Public District Library, located in Eads, CO, takes its name from the Kiowa Indians that once lived on the eastern edge of Colorado. The Kiowa County Library whose motto is “Eads Reads” strives to provide optimal support for their community in the form of educational materials and services for all its patrons while also focusing on community needs. The Kiowa County Public Library offers a number of services such as local area public access catalogs, a local cemetery database, and local public television advertising.

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 700,000 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 Shannon O’Grady at 303-422-1150 or [email protected].

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.