Kirtland Community College (Mich.) Goes Live With Evergreen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA — February 3, 2010
Kirtland Community College has gone live with Evergreen, the consortial, open-source library automation software. Equinox Software, Inc., the support and development company established by the original Evergreen developers, provided migration assistance for the project and will provide ongoing technical support. The server for the new installation is being hosted at the college and members of the Michigan Library Consortium provided staff training.
Known as the “College in the Woods,” Kirtland Community College is located in Roscommon, Michigan about 170 miles north of Detroit. They also have two satellite locations in Gaylord and West Branch. The library currently holds about 32,500 bibliographic items and has 760 patrons. To learn more about Kirtland Community College, please visit their website at: http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/
Deb Shumaker, Director of Library Services for Kirtland Community College, says “the Kirtland Community College Library is extremely pleased with the move to Evergreen. The product, support, and Evergreen Community embrace the library’s philosophy of providing our patrons with the best possible resources and services available.”
Brad LaJeunesse, CEO of Equinox Software, says “Kirtland Community College is currently undergoing an upgrade of their library facilities. We are pleased that Evergreen and Equinox could play a role in that upgrade and help improve library usage for the students, faculty, and community residents.”
About Evergreen
Evergreen is a robust, highly scalable, open-source integrated 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, the software has sustained 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 over 500 libraries of every type-public, academic, special, and school media centers. Evergreen’s rapidly expanding community is now known to power live installations in 5 countries including 10 U.S. states and 4 Canadian provinces.
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 bring a comprehensive array of talent to continue improving Evergreen, the consortial, open source Integrated Library System (ILS). Equinox not only continues to develop Evergreen but, also consults, migrates, integrates, supports and offers hosting packages for libraries that prefer not to maintain local servers. Equinox also engages and supports a rapidly expanding Evergreen community.
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.

SOMERDALE, NJ, February 1, 2010: Library Automation Technologies, Inc. (LAT), a leader in library automation products, is pleased to announce that Califa, a membership-based service bureau for California libraries, has accepted LAT as a provider of automation equipment to its members.

Califa, the leading provider of cost effective delivery of services, programs, and products through a membership network of California libraries, has included LAT as an approved vendor for its network of member libraries. The Califa Group is a membership-based service bureau designed to provide member-enhanced, value-added services to all California libraries. On behalf of its members, Califa brokers and facilitates the delivery of products and services, like LAT’s MAX™, MAXine™ and MAXwell™ book self check products, as well as the allCIRC™ media security and disc dispensing product lines. Califa has also embraced preliminary specification on future new innovative LAT products due to be introduced in 2010.

Oleg Boyarsky, President and CEO of LAT commented "By far, Califa is one of the leading forces that provide cost effective delivery of services, programs, and products critical to sustainability and long-term growth of California libraries. Embracing technology, with a strong open mind towards the future, Califa will now facilitate its member libraries access to new and innovative solutions, which may have been unavailable to them before. No question, we are very proud and excited to be part of this organization.”

LAT-Max™, LAT-MAXine™ and LAT-MAXwell™ are a family of self-service machines based on FlashScan™ technology. Providing multiple form-factors, all with a same patron interface, multiple finishes and all at the same price, the machines allow libraries to take advantage of the modern self-service technology regardless of their physical space constraints. Coupled with an array of impressive features and capabilities these machines, installed all across the country, have gained a solid, industry leading reputation for flexibility and value. The allCIRC™ product line, already an established leader in media management, is an extension of the FlashScan™ technology that allows total optical media security while simultaneously providing self-service for their patrons.

For more information about LAT's technology and all library products, jump to: www.LATcorp.com

Library Automation Technologies Inc., (LAT) founded in 2001 has installations in hundreds of libraries throughout the United States. LAT's sole mission is to help libraries work better, smarter and more securely. LAT’s innovation earned the firm the coveted “#1 Fastest Growing in South Jersey, 2005” by the Philadelphia Business Journal, as well as a “Finalist in the Family Business of the Year, 2006” award presented by Farleigh Dickinson College. LAT further continues its growth expanding into automation by delivering media dispensing line of products solely dedicated to library operations.