AspenCat is consortium of 30 smaller libraries in Colorado. Since November 2009, these libraries have been migrating to a Koha-based integrated library system solution supported by PTFS, Inc and CLiC. About half of the libraries have migrated to the union catalog, and another 15 will be moving over this fall. Evaluations show patrons like the system, and they love the easy access to a much larger collection. The average AspenCat collection is 15,000 items. When all libraries have migrated, patrons will have access to nearly half a million items. But even half-way through the migration, the numbers of borrows between libraries in impressive. Here’s a chart to date of resource sharing growth. aspencat statistics
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The ASCC Consortium wishes to announce we have successfully loaded another 7 libraries into AspenCat. The AspenCat union catalog now has 220,000 items. In March, the 8 pilot libraries borrowed 454 items from each other making for very happy patrons (see comments below). To search the Koha-based system, go to: http://www.aspencat.info/
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With AspenCat, CLiC now has a way to make our library science collection available to the wider library community. We have a growing collection of very current books and videos and even some realia. If you are an AspenCat library, you can place a hold on any item in our collection and we’ll send it to you the next day. For other libraries, we should have access available to you via SWIFT in a few days. Here’s the link to the public AspenCat catalog. http://www.aspencat.info/
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The ASCC Consortium’s new integrated library system, Koha hosted by Liblime debuted last week. The new AspenCat catalog currently includes records from the seven pilot libraries.
Send out a big congratulations to:
Akron Public Library
Dolores Public Library
Manitou Springs Public Library
Nederland Community Library
Ouray Public Library
Wellington Public Library
West End Schools: Nucla and Naturita
They all worked extremely hard over the last several months and their diligence shows!
AspenCat includes over 100,000 items that are readily available to any patron in the participating communities. AspenCat will be growing to nearly 700,000 records from 22 more libraries by September 2010.
AspenCat can be viewed at www.aspencat.info.
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