North Bethesda, MD, July 3, 2014- Bonaire Public Library is now joining LibLime Koha 4.18 for all collection and patron management services. While watching closely the deployment of LibLime Koha to the Philipsburg Jubilee Library on nearby St Maarten, Bonaire has made the decision to automate using LibLime Koha 4.18.
LibLime Koha is the most functional open source ILS available to public libraries today. The LibLime Koha 4.18 production release further enhances the technology platform by including:
- Full RDA compliance
- A new fines/fees module relying on accounting principles
- Enhancement to fines and fees allowing partial payments and credits
- Expanded SIP2 messaging pairs to support eCommerce for 3rd party products
- New authority control tools that support the merging of authority records and associated bibliographic records
About Bonaire Public Library
Bonaire Public Library is located on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. The Bonaire Public Library is the only public library to serve residents and tourists of the popular yet secluded tropical vacation destination. While Dutch is the country's official language, the library proudly carries a variety of items in the island's native language of Papiamentu and also English language material.
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.
