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Biblios.net: An Open Content Bibliographic Service from LibLime

by Marshall Breeding LibLime, a company that bases its business on providing services for open source software, has launched a new project called biblios.net. Biblios.net is a new cataloging tool for libraries with access to a large pool of MARC records. The service consists of two components: biblios, a Web-based cataloging interface and biblios.net, the repository of MARC records.

Pitchforks for OCLC: rebellion against mandatory licensing for cooperatively developed catalog data

Superpatron--24 February 2009--The title is perhaps a bit over the top, but not really; there's discontent visible at a bunch of levels about OCLC's proposed new terms of service for the bibliographic data it has gathered over time. It's reminiscent of the Facebook user revolt about their proposed terms of service, of squabbles over IMDB for movies, CDDB for music, and even the WHOIS database of Internet hosts.

Open Solutions for Libraries Gain Momentum

Open sharing of data has often collided with issues of ownership and licensing. Nobody does more of a balancing act than librarians, who work to provide materials freely to patrons and other libraries while protecting owners’ rights. LibLime (www.liblime.com), an upstart company that has provided open source software solutions for libraries for several years (best known for its Koha ILS), has made its move to the next frontier of openness—providing open data and open library content. In 2008, LibLime introduced ‡biblios (http://biblios.org), an open source, web-based metadata tool for libraries, and it has just launched ‡biblios.net, a free, browser-based cataloging service with a data archive containing more than 30 million bibliographic and authority records. Records are licensed under the Open Data Commons (www.opendatacommons.com), making the service the world’s largest repository of freely licensed library records. Moves like this by LibLime and other open source and open data providers, such as U.K.-based Talis (www.talis.com), clearly have the potential to shake up some competitors, notably OCLC.

LibLime Upgrades "Koha with Class" to 3.0

by Josh Hadro -- Library Journal, 10/14/2008 Many LIS students complain they don’t get enough hands-on experience while in school, especially with library-specific software like ILS systems. To remedy this, open source development and support vendor LibLime offers a program to LIS schools called “Koha with Class,” designed to provide up to five installations of the Koha ILS, hosted by the company free of charge.

Automation System Marketplace 2008: Opportunity Out of Turmoil

As the industry consolidates, competition heats up to provide next-generation catalogs, and open source enters the mainstream -- Marshall Breeding's annual Automation Marketplace Survey

Open Source ILS Gains Ground with Academic Libraries.

Check out Marshall Breeding's article entitled: "Open Source ILS Gains Ground with Academic Libraries." ...In the February 2008 issue of Smart Libraries Newsletter! "Until now, the open-source ILS implementations have taken place primarily in public libraries, with no large academic libraries in the U.S. or Canada making the leap." That situation changed recently, however, with WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) and Laurentian Univ. in Ontario. "The commitment of these academic libraries to implement open-source automation systems warrants attention, because it appears to be the beginning of a trend," Breeding reports in "Open Source ILS Gains Ground with Academic Libraries."

Library Geeks 012 - LibLime and Koha

Daniel Chudnov interviews LibLime's Joshua Ferraro (CEO), Debra Denault (Operations Manager), and Chris Cormack about their work with LibLime and the Koha ILS project.

PTFS to Acquire LibLime and Move to Library Systems Premier League

The big story of the weekend was the pending acquisition of Koha support vendor LibLime by PTFS (Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc.). (The acquisition is still in the due diligence phase and is expected to close in early February; terms were not disclosed.) The surprising part of the announcement was the sudden emergence of PTFS, which has had a very low profile in the library industry, into the top tier of integrated library system vendors.