[OPLINTECH] HOT NEWS FOR SELOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY CHESTERVILLE, OH - COOL NOW LIVE!

[Suzi Lyle]

Please excuse multiple postings.

On Tuesday, June 5th, the Selover Public Library went live with 
Evergreen on the Consortium of Ohio Libraries shared catalog.
COOL is made up of independent libraries that are striving to provide 
innovative library services while being more efficient
with diminishing public resources.  Selover is the third of eight 
libraries that are tagged to be added in the next few months. Members 
currently on Cool
are Community Library in Sunbury, Germantown Public Library and Selover 
Public Library.  The next libraries scheduled to migrate are Cardington 
Public
Library and Mt. Gilead Public Library in August 2012.

Selover is excited and pleased with the transition to the COOL Catalog, 
it provides easier access to a much larger collection of library materials.
Joining the consortium also allows greater convenience for library 
patrons who can now pick up and drop off materials as several local 
libraries.

Evergreen, the open source ILS originally developed by PINES (Public 
Information Network for Electronic Services) for the Georgia Public 
Library Service,
is used by over 1,000 libraries across 31 states, 4 countries, and 8 
Canadian provinces. This count only includes reported installations, as 
anybody is free to
download, install and try it out for their library.  The new Consortium 
of Ohio Libraries, initially funded by an LSTA grant and local library 
funding, is hosted
and administered by OHIONET in conjunction with the member libraries.  
Please visit http://info.cool-cat.org <http://info.cool-cat.org/> for 
more information about the Consortium, or take
a look at the catalog directly at http://www.cool-cat.org 
<http://www.cool-cat.org/>.

If you have any questions about Evergreen or joining COOL, please feel 
free to contact me at Selover Public Library, lylesu at oplin.org 
<mailto:lylesu at oplin.org>  419-768-343l or contact the  consortium's 
president Chauncey Montgomery, Director of the Community Library in 
Sunbury montgoc1 at oplin.org 
<mailto:montgoc1 at oplin.org?subject=COOL%20Information>  740-965-390l.  
Tony Bandy is the Technology
Specialist at OHIONET in charge of supporting COOL. He is also available 
to answer questions about the consortium at tonyb at ohionet.org 
<mailto:tonyb at ohionet.org?subject=COOL%20Information> or 800-686-8975, 
ext. 19.

Suzi Lyle
Director
Selover Public Library
31 State Route 95  Box 25
Chesterville, OH   43317
419-768-3431
lylesu at oplin.org

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