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Subject: [Publib] Teach Future Librarians to Catalog in Koha
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:29:21 -0400
From: Nicole Engard <nicole.engard@...>
To: publib@...



Hi all,

I have an announcement about a project that I wish my professors had
known about when I was in library school -- Koha w/ Class. The
following news
(http://liblime.com/news-items/press-releases/liblime-upgrades-koha-with-class-f\
ree-hosted-koha-for-library-classrooms-worldwide/

<http://liblime.com/news-items/press-releases/liblime-upgrades-koha-with-class-f\
ree-hosted-koha-for-library-classrooms-worldwide/>)

was just released by LibLime - please share it with students and
professors alike.

LibLime Upgrades "Koha with Class": Free Hosted Koha for Library
Classrooms Worldwide

Athens, OH--October 8, 2008-- LibLime, the leader in open-source
solutions for libraries announced today that LibLime has upgraded the
"Koha with Class" Initiative to the 3.0 version of Koha.

Koha with Class provides library school classrooms with up to five
hosted installations of Koha, free of charge. The project is designed to
give future librarians hands-on experience with library automation
software and open source. Any college or university offering a program
in Library and Information Studies/ Technology can participate.

The Koha with Class Initiative was first launched in January of 2007 and
has been used by over 50 library classrooms worldwide.

Participating classrooms will now get Koha 3.0--the latest stable
version of Koha-- when they request Koha with Class installations.
Previously, Koha with Class installations ran Koha Version 2.2.

Koha 3.0 features of interest to LIS professors and students include:

1. Faster and better searching with Zebra
2. Better tools and utilities, such as a batch marc import tool
3. Cleaner user interface, including a more user friendly staff interface
4. Loads of new features including lots of improvements to acquisitions,
serials and cataloging

Also new is the Koha 3.0 User Manual, which LibLime created in-house and
has made available to the larger Koha community. It is available to all
Koha with Class users as well.

"The last 12 months have been a really high-growth period for our
company," says Joshua Ferraro, CEO of LibLime. "We're happy to reaffirm
our commitment to the Koha with Class Initiative by announcing the
upgrade as well as a new streamlined process for handling KwC
installation requests."

LibLime is accepting new applications. If you're interested in having
free Koha with Class installations for your classroom, you can read more
about the project as well as fill out an online application at LibLime's
Koha with Class Initiative webpage:

http://liblime.com/projects/koha-with-class/
<http://liblime.com/projects/koha-with-class/>

About Koha 3.0

Koha 3.0 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha
open-source integrated library system. Notably, it includes a powerful
search engine based on Zebra, a high-performance indexing and retrieval
engine. Koha 3.0's search engine can read structured records in
practically any input format (e.g., email, XML, MARC) and allows access
to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked
free-text queries. It supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes
of data, tens of millions of records) as well as incremental, safe
database updates on live systems.

To try out Koha 3.0 for yourself, visit LibLime's demos:

http://liblime.com/demos

About LibLime

LibLime is the global leader in open-source solutions for libraries,
with a mission to make open source accessible to libraries. Rather than
sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products,
LibLime 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. LibLime then facilitates
implementation of open-source in libraries by providing outstanding
development, customization, support and training solutions--solutions
tailored to each library's needs. For more information, see
http://liblime.com <http://liblime.com/>.

Press Contact:

Tina Burger
Vice President, Marketing LibLime
(888)Koha ILS (564-2457)
tnb@... <mailto:tnb@...>
http://liblime.com <http://liblime.com/>
LibLime and the LibLime logo are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of LibLime. Other company and product names may be trademarks
of their respective owners.


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Nicole C. Engard
Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
(888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
nce@... <mailto:nce@...>
AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard

http://liblime.com
http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

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