Library Technology Guides

Auto-Graphics partners with Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Company, LLC to Provide Record Enrichment for its SchoolCAT cataloging product. Auto-Graphics announced a partnership with the Children''s Literature Comprehensive Database, an Internet-based acquisition, research, and reference service, to provide content enrichment solutions for SchoolCAT, Auto-Graphics'' cataloging product serving K-12 school libraries. [Full Announcement].

Two Michigan School Districts Implement TLC's Centralized Automation System, Library.Solution for Schools. Southfield Public School District and Zeeland Public Schools have implemented TLC''s centralized automation for school districts. [Full Announcement].

Softlink International. Softlink Europe launches new specialist library management system for schools: Oliver. Softlink Europe is today announcing the launch of Oliver, the latest addition to its library management systems product range. Oliver will complement Softlink''s existing products: Alice and Liberty3 which are still available and will continue to be improved and supported for many years to come. Oliver has many unique characteristics and is now available both as an upgrade from Alice and as a replacement for non-Softlink library management systems currently used in schools. [Full Announcement].

TLC creates new overdue list feature for schools. A new reporting feature released in Library.Solution for Schools, TLC''s centralized automation system, sends a list of overdue items via e-mail directly to homeroom teachers according to a schedule specified by the system administrator. [Full Announcement].

Nashville Public Schools Selects TLC. Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee will automate its 131 schools with Library.Solution for Schools, TLC''s Oracle-based centralized automation system for school districts. [Full Announcement].

Dynix. Seven libraries head back to school with Horizon. Dynix announced that Barrington Community Unit School District 220 in Barrington, IL, which serves a community of 8,500 students, and Katy Independent School District in Katy, TX, which has grown to nearly 40,000 students served by 35 schools, have selected the Horizon Information Management System. In addition, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (Charlotte, NC), Beaverton School District 48 (Beaverton, OR), Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (Rosenburg, TX), Convent of the Sacred Heart (Greenwich, CT), and Kokomo High School South Campus (Kokomo, IN) have chosen to upgrade existing Dynix ILS systems to Horizon. [Full Announcement].

TLC's growing school division adds four new school districts. Four school districts have recently chosen SchoolLibrary.Solution, TLC''s district-wide, centralized automation system, including Academy School District Twenty in Colorado Springs; Phoenix Union High School District in Arizona; Silver Consolidated Schools in Silver City, New Mexico; and Howard County Public School System in Maryland. [Full Announcement].

Sagebrush Technologies. Sagebrush Corporation now brings schools broadest library automation product offering. Sagebrush Corporation brings libraries the broadest library automation product offering of any company. With the recent addition of the Accent centralized library automation system to the already-established Athena and Winnebago Spectrum product lines, no other single K–12 education technology solutions provider can match Sagebrush in providing solutions that fit the current and future needs of the smallest site-based libraries and the largest school districts. [Full Announcement].

Sagebrush Technologies. Sagebrush Corporation announces release of new BenchMARC collection development service. Sagebrush Corporation announces BenchMARC, a new service designed to help school media specialists with the daunting task of collection development. BenchMARC users submit their MARC records online, then receive free entry-level reports and can choose more in-depth subscription reports that evaluate different aspects of the collection. BenchMARC users also have access to library experts to assist with collection development. [Full Announcement].

SIRSI Corporation. Sagebrush and SIRSI partner to provide centralized library solution for K-12 school districts of all sizes: new Accent system joins Athena and Winnebago Spectrum as powerful Sagebrush library technology solutions. A partnership between Sagebrush Corporation and Sirsi Corporation brings K-12 libraries nationwide a new centralized library solution, the Accent library management system. Powered by technology developed at SIRSI and sold exclusively by Sagebrush, Accent is now available to the K-12 market-as outlined in an agreement signed January 10, 2001. Accent offers K-12 school libraries and media centers an affordable, easy-to-use, integrated central solution that provides students fast online access to information around the corner and around the world. An effective solution for school districts of all sizes, Accent is available for the Windows NT server platform. Accent features a web-based Internet Public Access Catalog (IPAC) for catalog searches both in and out of the library, graphical search interfaces, a cataloging and inventory module, a circulation module, and other tools to streamline searching and library management tasks. [Full Announcement].

SIRSI Corporation. American Institute of Architects launches Web access to collection. The American Institute of Architects in Washington D.C., serving 66,500 AIA members worldwide, has chosen Sirsi Corporation''s Unicorn Library Management System to automate its corporate library. According to Kimberly Allen, managing director of the AIA Knowledge Center, AIA chose Unicorn not only because of SIRSI''s innovative and stable reputation, but also because of SIRSI''s Hyperion Digital Media Archive system. [Full Announcement].

British Columbia Consortium contracts with Follett Software Company to automate 163 school libraries: Follett Software takes the lead in Canada. Coquitlam, Delta and Richmond school districts, together as a consortium in British Columbia, have selected Follett Software Company as their new library automation vendor. Collectively, Follett Software will provide automation software and services to 163 schools within the districts. [Full Announcement].

California strengthens K-12 reading program with help from Follett Software Company, Harcourt Educational Measurement & MetaMetrics, Inc.. Follett Software Company has partnered with Harcourt Educational Measurement and MetaMetrics, Inc. to help the State of California develop students'' reading skills. As a result, California students are more easily connecting with books that match and appropriately challenge their reading abilities, further supporting their reading skills development. [Full Announcement].

Sirsi Corporation. Hazelwood School District selects SIRSI. Hazelwood School District, which serves 18,300 students in suburban St. Louis, has chosen Sirsi Corporation''s Unicorn Library Management System to automate the libraries in its 24 district schools. [Full Announcement].

First successful pilot puts Follett Software Company at forefront of landmark v1.0 release of Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF): SIF provides blueprint to help K-12 schools and districts share data. Long-time Follett Software Company customer, Anoka Hennepin Independent School District 11, in Anoka, Minnesota, successfully piloted the Schools Interoperability Framework “proof of concept” in preparation for release of the v1.0 SIF specification, announced today. With its leadership role in developing v1.0 specifications, Follett Software will be able to bring the benefits of SIF-compliant products to market faster than any other library automation vendor. [Full Announcement].

K-12 students find the best information in One Search with new technology from Follett Software Company. Follett Software Company announced plans to introduce a revolutionary Intranet search consolidation technology into its OPAC software solutions. The one-stop search technology will make it easier for students to acquire information from multiple information databases in a single search. [Full Announcement].

New Schools Interoperability Framework: Follett Software & NCS develop first multi-platform server. Follett Software Company and NCS have joined forces to develop the first multi-platform Zone Integration Server for operation with the Schools Interoperability Framework. The SIF is a specification that will improve school efficiencies by enabling K-12 administrative and instructional software to interact and share data. The ZIS is a component of the SIF that enables information exchange to occur. Follett Software and NCS''s ZIS will be compliant with Windows 95, 98, NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Novell NetWare and Mac platforms. [Full Announcement].

First successful pilot puts Follett Software Company at forefront of landmark v1.0 release of Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF): SIF provides blueprint to help K-12 schools and districts share data. Follett Software Company customer, Anoka Hennepin Independent School District 11, in Anoka, Minnesota, has successfully piloted the Schools Interoperability Framework “proof of concept” in preparation for release of the v1.0 SIF specification, announced today. With its leadership role in developing v1.0 specifications, Follett Software will be able to bring the benefits of SIF-compliant products to market faster than any other library automation vendor. [Full Announcement].

Follett Software Company enters agreement with Lexile.com to help K-12 schools advance students' reading skills. [Full Announcement].

New Follett PHD Dolphin+ scanner simplifies inventory, remote circulation & more. Follett Software Company''s new Follett PHD Dolphin+ scanner simplifies inventory and other time-consuming tasks in the library by making them faster and easier while producing less hand and wrist fatigue than traditional scanners. The Dolphin is a portable, lightweight scanner that applies state-of-the-art laser technology to read barcodes instantly and accurately. [Full Announcement].