Emeryville, CA—Scottsdale Public Library System (AZ) has switched to SkyRiver for its cataloging services. With lower cataloging costs, easy transition, and book vendor support, SkyRiver is an increasingly attractive alternative to legacy bibliographic utility cataloging services.
“Our cataloging operation was up and running with SkyRiver within a day of…
Emeryville, CA—Following the recent merger of the Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) and INCOLSA, Inc., the new organization, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS), is extending its agreement with SkyRiver and offering SkyRiver’s bibliographic utility cataloging services to MCLS libraries in Indiana. In October 2009, MLC and SkyRiver announced…
Emeryville, CA—The West Bloomfield Township Public Library in West Bloomfield, MI has completed the conversion from its legacy bibliographic service to being fully operational with SkyRiver cataloging in less than a month. West Bloomfield’s conversion is the quickest to date for…
SkyRiver announced today that it is partnering with the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) to offer SkyRiver services to its member community. Joni Blake, Executive Director of GWLA, states, “We are very pleased to offer our members the opportunity to save…
Clearly, the venture is poised to take advantage of the long-standing perception in the cataloging community that there are no alternatives to many of the services that OCLC offers. With many libraries ailing from deep budget cuts, even a modest savings on cataloging may be enough to draw a significant customer base to this new product.
Middle Country Public Library, Centereach NY, is the first of SkyRiver’s public library development partners to implement SkyRiver cataloging services. Recently ranked top in its category in the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service 2009, Middle Country is the first public library to switch to SkyRiver for its cataloging needs.
The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) and SkyRiver have reached an agreement where MLC will offer SkyRiver’s bibliographic utility services to MLC’s member libraries.
Two well-established academic libraries, Michigan State University and California State University, Long Beach are the first libraries to publicly announce that they are fully operational using SkyRiver as their exclusive cataloging service. Both libraries are looking to SkyRiver to substantially reduce the costs associated with cataloging.
SkyRiver announced today that information industry veteran, Michael Markwith, has joined SkyRiver as its first sales executive. “We’re very pleased to have someone with Michael’s breadth of experience joining our young company,” states Leslie Straus, President of SkyRiver.
SkyRiver today publicly announces the launch of its new bibliographic utility service. Already in use in both public and academic libraries, SkyRiver provides a clear, low-cost alternative for cooperative cataloging.
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