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Duluth, GA —January 23, 2013

Caswell County Public Library has gone live on Evergreen as the eleventh library to join the NC Cardinal consortium. Equinox Software oversaw both data migration and staff training. ESI will also continue to provide on-going system administration and technical support for the entire consortium.
Almost 30,000 bib items and 9,000 patrons were migrated to the combined catalog. The online catalog for entire consortium can be viewed at
www.nccardinal.org.

Equinox President, Brad LaJeunesse, says, “2013 is shaping up to be a big year for the NC Cardinal consortium. The success of the initial installations has raised a lot of interest from other libraries and given a huge amount of momentum toward a statewide system.”

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded in 2007 by the original Evergreen developers, Equinox remains deeply committed to being an active and enthusiastic voice in the open source community. Equinox's unparalleled depth of knowledge regarding libraries and library data is reflected in our services which include implementation, development, support, hosting, and educational services for both Evergreen and Koha software. For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

About Evergreen

Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed with the intent of providing an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today, almost 1200 libraries across the US and Canada are using Evergreen including King Country Public Library, SC Lends, and B.C Sitka. For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571

North Bethesda, MD, January 23, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Rocky View School District is adding five more libraries to their district-wide LibLime Koha union catalog.

During the upcoming months, Rocky View School District will work with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training. As each of the five libraries is added, each of the libraries will enjoy the benefits of LibLime’s support and hosting in our distributed computing cloud platform.

About The Rocky View School District
Rocky View Schools serves residents to the west, north and east of the City of Calgary. The jurisdiction provides educational services to over 18,000 public students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Rocky View Schools is the fifth-largest school board in Alberta, employing more than 2,000 staff.

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.

The new OCLC Shared Print Management Program is designed to help libraries register shared print collections holdings in WorldCat so that they can collaborate closely to more efficiently manage and share these collections.

A growing number of regional efforts are under way to consolidate and preserve print collections among multiple libraries in response to the widespread availability of digital resources and increasing pressure for space in campus library buildings.

“OCLC member libraries have expressed a great deal of interest in reducing their physical footprints through collaboration,” said Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development. “We think that collaboration extends to a network of partners, ranging from national organizations such as the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and HathiTrust, to regional consortia and companies like Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) that offer supporting services. Our approach to shared print is collaborative, and is intended to complement and integrate with a wide range of service providers.”

OCLC’s Shared Print Management Program grows out of the OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot Project, which concluded in March 2012. Participants in the project, including several major U.S. research libraries, developed Print Archives Metadata Guidelines to provide libraries with a standards-based approach to registering and sharing print preservation commitments. Over the course of the pilot, participants tested the implementation of these guidelines by registering print archiving commitments in WorldCat and documenting their impact on local cataloging and resource sharing workflows. To date, several thousand print archiving commitments have been registered in WorldCat.

OCLC Research has been exploring the evolution of library operations associated with the ongoing shift from locally owned print inventory to jointly managed print and digital collections.

“The burgeoning interest in shared print management among members of the OCLC cooperative reflects a growing awareness that long-term preservation of the published record can be organized as a collective effort, enabling individual libraries to redeploy local resources in support of evolving institutional priorities,” said Constance Malpas, Program Officer, OCLC Research, who has done extensive research into shared print collaboration.

Shared print consultant Lizanne Payne, who serves as Project Manager for the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) and Planning Consultant for the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), has assisted OCLC to understand the needs of libraries and consortia that are establishing shared print agreements. “Shared collections are actually happening now, and will change the way libraries describe and provide access to holdings,” Payne said. “I believe libraries will welcome OCLC’s active engagement in this increasingly important model for library collections.”

“OCLC is eager to help libraries and consortia as they establish the processes necessary to report shared print holdings to WorldCat,” said Bill Carney, OCLC Content Manager, who is serving as Shared Print Community Liaison to assist libraries in shared print programs. “We will work with libraries to investigate additional requirements and services to support cooperative management of print collections.”

Libraries and groups interested in registering their shared print collections in WorldCat can begin by contacting Bill Carney, OCLC’s Shared Print Community Liaison, at sharedprint@oclc.org.

Visit the OCLC website for more information about the Shared Print Management Program www.oclc.org/productworks/shared-print-management.htm.