InfoTech: LibLime Signs INCOLSA and Central Kansas Library System

by Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 09/25/2007

LibLime, the Athens, OH-based vendor offering open-source ILS solutions, recently signed large contracts with the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (INCOLSA) and the Central Kansas Library System. INCOLSA will be using LibLime’s services for the Indiana Shared Library Catalog (ISLC), a multitype resource sharing network composed of 30 member libraries including an art museum, the Indiana Supreme Court Library, and public and school libraries throughout the state. LibLime said its Koha ZOOM solution will provide ISLC members with “a shared integrated library automation system, including a web-based union catalog and integrated circulation, acquisitions, and serials control modules.” The ISLC migration is the first step in a partnership between INCOLSA and the vendor to offer affordable open-source automation solutions to the cooperative’s members.

These offerings will include Koha ILS, Evergreen, MasterKey (a metasearch tool created by LibLime’s strategic partner Index Data), and YakPac (a kids’ OPAC add-on also created by Index Data), the company said. The Kansas libraries also will use Koha ZOOM in its new Pathfinder Central region-wide ILS consortium, providing automation and lending network services to 31 libraries in 17 central Kansas counties. Like ISLC, the Kansas libraries will get a web-based union catalog with all the other trimmings.