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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The Institute for Museums and Library Services recently released its list of June 2009 grant recipients (http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/061709b_list.shtm). One of these awards is a nearly $1M grant to Denver Public Library (principal investigator is DPL’s Kristen Svendsen); grant partners include REFORMA-Colorado, the Colorado Association of Libraries, and the University of Denver. The purpose of the grant is to increase the number of librarians with the skills and knowledge to serve linguistically and culturally diverse communities. The money will be used to pay full-tuition and scholarships for 18 students to obtain their master’s degrees at the University of Denver’s library school. (This is the 3rd such grant received by DPL; it is known locally as “Leaders III”.)
I’m delighted to announce the release of the PUBLIC DRAFT of a whitepaper summarizing much of what was learned by the core task force behind a research process (started last fall) for considering the viability of a statewide ILS based on open-source software.
What does PUBLIC DRAFT mean? It’s a paper that has not been set in stone. You can influence the development and writing. You are invited to submit comments or questions to any member of the task force. Disagree with any aspects of the paper? Let them know. Did you find the paper informational? Let them know.
Most importantly, please engage with your peers and colleagues on the topic. How would you answer the questions listed in the Summary section of the paper?
For Colorado, there is a clear need for discussion among library decision makers about this topic. Please join that discussion.
You’ll find the whitepaper listed among the FILES section of the Google Groups site. http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-co-libraries
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