[Metadatalibrarians] Teach Future Librarians to Catalog in Koha

[Nicole Engard]

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-free-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/

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.

Press Contact:

Tina Burger
Vice President, Marketing LibLime
(888)Koha ILS (564-2457)
tnb at 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 at liblime.com
AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard

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