COLUMBUS, OH --July 11, 2009-- LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, announced today that Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan, has selected a Koha ZOOM hosted solution for their next integrated library system.

The Koha installation will be hosted off site at one of LibLime's secure data centers. The Library has also contracted with LibLime for data migration of their 80,000 bibliographic records, support and training services.

Madonna University is a private Catholic, liberal arts institution located in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan, within easy commuting distance from Ann Arbor, Michigan and Windsor, Canada. The University enrolls over 3,000 students at its main campus and three satellite locations, and offers programs in more than 75 undergraduate and 27 graduate areas. It is nationally recognized for pioneering four-year degrees in sign language, hospice, and gerontology.

"Madonna University is a primarily a commuter institution, with the majority of students balancing school, family, and job responsibilities. It is imperative that students maximize research time to acquire quality resources. The Library strives to respond to patron needs by offering user-friendly, flexible programs that enhance access to critical research materials," says Director Joanne Lumetta.

"The Koha ILS should prove to be a cost-effective, adaptable, and innovative solution to user problems encountered with the previous proprietary system," Lumetta adds.

The Library is looking forward to Koha's intuitive interface, ease of use, and ability to customize. Koha's enhanced content (book covers) and shelf browsing features are also expected to be popular among staff and students.

About Madonna University

Madonna University Library supports the research needs of University students, staff, and faculty with a collection of more than 110,000 print and electronic books, multimedia resources, and 125 subscription databases that provide 24/7 access to over 25,000 online full text journals. Reciprocal borrowing agreements with several nearby colleges and universities, as well as library participation in the Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries Infopass program, enable students to take advantage of the extensive research resources in the Detroit-Ann Arbor area. Interlibrary loan and document delivery services further extend the availability of library materials.

Librarians offer expert assistance, opportunities for individual consultation, classes and workshops to ensure that students access, evaluate, and use information effectively in the research process. Library facilities provide wireless access and include quiet study areas in addition to rooms for collaborative work.

About Koha ZOOM

Koha ZOOM is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source integrated library system. Notably, it includes a powerful search engine based on Zebra, a high-performance indexing and retrieval engine. Koha ZOOM's search engine can read structured records in practically any input format (e.g., email, XML, MARC) and allows access to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries. It supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data, tens of millions of records) as well as incremental, safe database updates on live systems.

To try out Koha ZOOM for yourself, visit LibLime's demos:

http://liblime.com/demos

About LibLime

LibLime is the global leader in open-source solutions for libraries, with a mission to make open source accessible to libraries. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, LibLime educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. LibLime then facilitates implementation of open-source in libraries by providing outstanding development, customization, support and training solutions--solutions tailored to each library's needs. For more information, see http://liblime.com.

Press Contact:

Tina Burger
Vice President, Marketing LibLime
(888)Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 705

tnb@liblime.com

LibLime and the LibLime logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of LibLime. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Equinox Support Team Grows, Keeping Pace with Evergreen Adoption
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA — July 8, 2009

Equinox Software, Inc., “The Evergreen Experts,” has responded to a powerful increase in the number of libraries using Evergreen library software by adding three specialists to its support team. Ben Ostrowsky and Steve Callender have come aboard as Support Specialists, while David Brown has been hired as System Administrator. Their expertise will continue to ensure expeditious ticket response, excellent customer care, and well-managed services even as Equinox and the Evergreen community continue to grow.
Ostrowsky comes to Equinox with over 11 years of library industry experience, most recently as a software consultant for Alpha-G Consulting, where he gained direct experience with Evergreen software. Callender brings nine years of software maintenance and development, most recently with the Reynolds and Reynolds Company, where he served as Lead Programmer and Application Developer. Brown brings over 15 years of IT experience, most recently as Library Systems Manager for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Don McMorris, Equinox Software Operations Manager, commented, “It is very exciting to see the support team growing. Additional support staff will allow us to provide even faster support and more creative solutions to the complex and diverse problems that we see."

About Evergreen
Evergreen is powerful, highly scalable open-source library software. While Evergreen is best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia, Evergreen also elegantly scales down to the smallest library sites.
Since its debut in September 2006 as the software powering the 270-plus libraries of the Georgia PINES consortium, Evergreen has earned acclaim and praise from users worldwide, including a Technology Collaboration Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Evergreen now supports hundreds of libraries of every type—public, academic, special, and school media—in 12 states and several countries.
For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a growing team of skilled professionals who provide comprehensive support for Evergreen, the consortial-quality, open source Integrated Library System (ILS). Equinox develops, supports, trains, migrates, integrates, and consults on Evergreen, and engages with the rapidly expanding Evergreen community. Equinox also offers hosting packages for libraries that prefer not to maintain local servers.
For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.
Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 678-269-6113
Evergreen is open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Evergreen and the Evergreen logo are trademarks of the Georgia Public Library Service.

Grace Dunbar Joins Equinox Software as Project Manager
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA — July 7, 2009

Equinox Software, Inc., “The Evergreen Experts,” welcomes Grace Dunbar as its newest Project Manager. She will play a key role in ensuring smooth and successful migrations for libraries moving to Evergreen, the highly scalable open source library software. Dunbar will also assist in the demonstration and training of new Evergreen applications for current and future users.
Dunbar has a Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and most recently served as the Head Librarian for Savannah College of Art and Design. When not hard at work, she is an avid knitter who is also teaching herself to play the banjo.
Dunbar says, “I am excited to be joining the wonderful team here at Equinox. My career has quickly led me to the conclusion that embracing open source is important for the long-term survival of libraries. Empowering libraries to take an active role in the ownership of their ILS allows them to take control of their future, and I'm proud to be a part of that.”
Brad LaJeunesse, Equinox company president, added, “Dunbar’s arrival comes at a time of tremendous growth for open source in libraries and Evergreen in particular. We are excited to see Dunbar join us in this newly-created position!”

About Evergreen
Evergreen is powerful, highly scalable open-source library software. While Evergreen is best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia, Evergreen also elegantly scales down to the smallest library sites.
Since its debut in September 2006 as the software powering the 270-plus libraries of the Georgia PINES consortium, Evergreen has earned acclaim and praise from users worldwide, including a Technology Collaboration Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Evergreen now supports hundreds of libraries of every type—public, academic, special, and school media—in 12 states and 2 countries.
For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a growing team of skilled professionals who provide comprehensive support for Evergreen, the consortial-quality, open source Integrated Library System (ILS). Equinox develops, supports, trains, migrates, integrates, and consults on Evergreen, and engages with the rapidly expanding Evergreen community. Equinox also offers hosting packages for libraries that prefer not to maintain local servers.
For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.
Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 678-269-6113
Evergreen is open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Evergreen and the Evergreen logo are trademarks of the Georgia Public Library Service.

ITG will be the exclusive US distributor of Dialoc’s electromagnetic security systems to the library industry.

Norcross, Ga. – Netherlands-based Dialoc ID has selected Integrated Technology Group (ITG), a division of Vernon Library Supplies, Inc., as its exclusive US distributor of electromagnetic (EM) security systems to the library industry. ITG may also provide Dialoc ID products to libraries in Canada.

“Dialoc ID’s EM security technology completes our product line. For many years, we have provided libraries with both RF and RFID security systems in addition to self-checkout systems that interface with those two technologies, as well as EM security. Now, we will be able to deliver a fully integrated EM solution to libraries,” said Shai Robkin, President and CEO of ITG.

“While we develop all of our software solutions and many of our hardware products in house, when it came to EM security, we wanted to go with a tried and proven performer,” added Robkin. “It was fortuitous that at the same time that we were looking for the best EM system to offer our customers, Dialoc ID was looking for a North American distribution channel.”

ITG will host Dialoc ID executives in its booth at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, July 9-15 at McCormick Place West in Chicago. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience Dialoc’s electronic article surveillance (EAS) technology at booth #1021 throughout the show, including the new Diamond EM/RFID hybrid system. ITG will also introduce a program that allows libraries that install RFID-ready EM pedestals that allow for easy, cost effective RFID upgrades in the future.

Dialoc ID has been a world leader in the EAS field since 1977, delivering EAS technology to libraries for more than two decades. The company has thousands of security systems installed in more than 35 countries. Through its partnership with ITG, Dialoc ID will bring its EM technology to the North American library market, which is currently dominated by a single provider, 3M.

“We look forward to demonstrating to American libraries what libraries in the rest of the world have known for many years about the advancements we have brought to EM security technology,” said Willem Angel, Chairman of Dialoc ID Holdings BV.

“We are particularly delighted to have found a partner like ITG that has been so successful in providing materials flow management solutions to libraries in the US and Canada,” added Cor de Nood, CEO and Technical Director of Dialoc ID.”

About Integrated Technology Group

Integrated Technology Group (www.integratedtek.com) develops, markets, and supports library automation technologies that empower librarians to make operations more efficient and better serve their patrons. ITG’s products include patron self-checkout, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Automated Materials Handling (AMH) systems, library materials security, public computer reservation, and print management. With over 30 years experience in the library industry, ITG combines smart technology and progressive design to create standard solutions that can be easily customized to meet site-specific requirements. ITG, a division of Vernon Library Supplies, Inc., is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia.

About Dialoc ID

Dialoc ID (dialocid.com) has marketed its products under the Dialoc ID company name since 1992. Starting in the EAS retail market in 1977, the company develops and manufactures RF, EM and RFID technologies. Dialoc ID is the market leader in the Dutch EM market and sells through dealers and distributors throughout the world. Dialoc ID b.v. is headquartered in Harderwijk, The Netherlands.

Integrated Technology Group: Experienced, Innovative, and Plays Well With Others

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ROCHESTER, N.Y., JULY 02, 2009 – At Kirtas Technologies, mass digitization has always been viewed as a long-term investment. By bringing centuries’ worth of rare bound materials back to life for the digital age, digitization becomes an investment in the future and new technology. Today, it also becomes an investment in knowledge that anyone can make.

Invest in Knowledge is a new, innovative—patent pending—initiative introduced by Kirtas in conjunction with the company’s Digitize on Demand program and retail Web site, www.kirtasbooks.com. The program allows anyone to subsidize the digitization of the world’s knowledge one book at a time.

Anyone who purchases a book to be digitized, through the Invest in Knowledge initiative, from Kirtasbooks.com will receive a reprint of that book, as well as 5% of all future sales of that book through that web site. Consumers can invest in as many books as they would like.

“This is such a tremendous opportunity for the average consumer to help support and fund the digitization of some amazing collections of books,” noted Tom DeMay, vice president, business development. “So not only are consumers doing the right thing, but if they want to ask ‘what’s in it for me?’ We can give you a great answer. Several titles or one popular book could provide a nice return on investment over time, creating a true lifelong investment in knowledge.”

“This is the first mass digitization program that will make unique collections available to the public in a way that increases access, achieves preservation, and benefits at the same time the library, its patrons and the general consumer,” said Kirtas Founder and CEO Lotfi Belkhir. “And it does so without compromising quality or the ownership rights of the libraries to their digitized content.” To learn more about Invest in Knowledge, invest in a book or set up an account, visit www.kirtasbooks.com.

About Kirtas Technologies
Kirtas Technologies has pioneered and perfected the technology used today in quality, high-speed, nondestructive mass digitization. A proven workflow ensuring superior image quality, advanced search capabilities, unique archiving technology, and extensive metadata enabling multiple output options that stand the test of time are what set us apart and keep Kirtas at the forefront of the digital revolution. Learn more at www.kirtas.com

Contact: Todd Whiting
585-924-2420 x2248
twhiting@kirtas.com