The Libraries and Access to Justice Webinar Series concludes with our forth webinar, Thursday November 1. Pro Bono Net is producing these webinars in collaboration with the Legal Aid Society of Louisville, Central Minnesota Legal Services and Legal Services State Support (MN), with funding from the Legal Services Corporation's Technology Initiative Grants program. The series will help librarians better assist library patrons with legal needs by presenting a range of free online access to justice resources, and will showcase successful models for legal aid-library collaboration. A description with the link to register for the fourth and final webinar, Developing Legal Aid-Library Collaborations: Models and Replication Resources can be found below.

Webinar 4: Developing Legal Aid-Library Collaborations: Models and Replication Resources
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Time: 10am PDT / 11am MTN / noon CDT / 1pm EDT
Registration: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/236132246

Our final webinar in the series will highlight innovative, technology-enabled collaborations between legal aid programs and public and public law libraries in their communities to connect people with legal information. Panelists from legal aid programs and libraries in several states will discuss why and how they forged these partnerships and how they work. We will also provide nuts and bolts resources to replicate these and similar partnerships in other communities, and potential funding opportunities to seed them. We will also discuss opportunities for library involvement in project advisory groups and state commissions.

These webinars are free to public library and public law library staff, as well as stakeholders from the legal aid, court and access to justice communities. Attendees are welcome to join for the entire series or attend individual webinars on topics of interest. Recordings and presentation materials will be made available online afterwards.

For more information, to register for the upcoming webinar, or to view our past two webinars, please visit us at http://www.probono.net/librarywebinars/. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at xkarsten@probono.net.

North Bethesda, MD –October 26, 2012 – Students in Dr. Nashrawan Taha’s Automation of Information Centers and Libraries course at the University of Jordan will begin utilizing LibLime Koha this fall through LibLime's Koha with Class program.

LibLime will provide the class of approximately 18 students with a hosted installation of LibLime Koha 4.14 free of charge. This will allow the students unlimited access and all privileges associated with the staff end of LibLime Koha as well as all OPAC functionality for the duration of the course. LibLime Koha 4.14 introduces the Solr search engine to the Koha application. The Solr engine provides increased performance for importing and indexing bibliographic records. Solr also provides a much richer facet list for OPAC searching. Students in Dr. Taha’s class will have the opportunity to take advantage of these and other improvements brought to the application through the Solr search engine.

Dr. Taha says “We chose Koha because it is one of the most up-to-date ILS packages and in a world where cloud computing is starting to be dominant, we need to always learn the best.”

About LibLime’s Koha with Class
LibLime's Koha with Class program is designed to give library school faculty a chance to embed the use of an ILS into their coursework and curricula. This allows students to gain practical experience with library automation software as they prepare to enter the library workforce. Many faculty members around the world are taking advantage of the free support that LibLime provides with the Koha with Class installations. LibLime is striving to expand the program overseas to support librarianship at an international level. To learn more about the program visit or if you wish to get involved go to: http://www.liblime.com/we-give-back.

About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division 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. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.