improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral . please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources . december 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message this article may require cleanup to meet wikipedia s quality standards . no cleanup reason has been specified . please help improve this article if you can . november 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message liblime type private industry computer software founded 2005 headquarters maryland usa products liblime koha liblime enterprise koha biblios.net website http liblime.com http www.ptfs.com liblime is a commercial entity providing implementation and development services around the open source integrated library system koha . liblime was founded in 2005 as part of metavore inc. 1 and purchased by progressive technology federal systems inc. ptfs in 2010 . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 liblime koha open source integrated library system 2.2 liblime enterprise koha integrated library system 3 programs and projects 3.1 koha open source integrated library system 3.2 biblios.net 3.3 koha with class 4 references history edit liblime was founded in 2005 by joshua ferraro a systems administrator who helped spearhead the migration project of moving the athens county public libraries in ohio to opensource koha a system generally considered to be the earliest open source ils 2 still in production . liblime and ferraro soon became involved in further developing the product and ferraro was elected as the official koha project release manager for version 3.0.0 . in 2006 liblime acquired the assets of skemotah solutions another us based koha support company . 3 in march 2007 liblime acquired the koha division of katipo communications ltd the original developers of koha . assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts with libraries that contracted with katipo copyrights on the original koha source code and the koha.org domain and website . 4 koha 3.0.0 was released in august 2008 5 three years after the release of version 2.2.0 jan 6 2005 . 6 in july 2008 liblime acquired select assets of partner care affiliates inc. assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts for opentranslators and masterkey as well as copyrights and trademarks related to opentranslators . 7 in january 2009 the company launched biblios.net a free cataloging service . in 2009 a dispute arose between liblime and other members of the koha community . the dispute centred on liblime s apparent reluctance to be inclusive with the content of the http koha.org sites and the non contribution of software patches back to the community . a number of participants declared that they believed that liblime had forked the software . 8 9 10 11 a separate web presence source code repository and community was established at http www.koha community.org . in march 2010 liblime was purchased by ptfs 12 a us federal government contractor . 13 14 the dispute with the koha community deepened in november 2011 when it was reported that liblime had applied to new zealand s ministry of economic development for a trademark of the name koha . the horowhenua library trust who originally had koha developed has objected to liblime s proposal saying that the trust had created something really good and given it away to the world and that now liblime wants to take it . 15 products edit liblime koha open source integrated library system edit a liblime variant of koha 16 based off koha 3.0 . 17 announced may 2011 18 liblime enterprise koha integrated library system edit a liblime variant of koha 19 based off koha 3.0 citation needed . announced sept 2009 20 programs and projects edit koha open source integrated library system edit for more details on this topic see koha software . koha is a full featured open source integrated library system licensed under the gnu general public license . liblime s historical contributions to the project included handling release management and quality assurance . through the integrated zebra software from index data a danish company 21 koha provides advanced search options full support for boolean and hierarchically nested queries ; searching by language year and library defined types ; sub type limits based on audience content and format which utilize coded values in the marc record . also available are re sort and amazon style refine by options . additionally users can sort their results by popularity author title date published ; narrow search results by branch subject or series title ; and even limit to currently available items . liblime developed the integration between zebra and koha . other major contributions of liblime to koha included koha s amazon.com module koha s original z39 .50 server marc21 authorities support in koha implemented proper handling of marc8 encoded data biblios.net edit for more details on this topic see biblios.net . biblios.net is a free cataloguing service . koha with class edit building on the success of a pilot program at texas woman s university in 2006 liblime s koha with class 1 initiative provides library school classrooms with hosted installations of koha free of charge . 22 23 the project has a very active following with dozens of college and universities participating . 24 references edit library technology guides liblime . retrieved 2011 01 31 . library technology guides automation history . retrieved 2011 01 31 . liblime corporate chronology . retrieved 2011 12 21 . liblime acquisition by ptfs marks a new era for koha archive.org version . retrieved 2011 07 07 . koha 3.0.0 git tag . retrieved 2011 02 01 . koha 2.2.0 release announcement . retrieved 2011 02 01 . liblime to acquire care affiliates . retrieved 2008 07 29 . joann ransom 2009 09 14 . library matters liblime forks koha . library matters.blogspot.com . retrieved 2011 08 18 . blog archive koha and liblime and the letter and the spirit of open source . librarian.net . 2009 08 06 . retrieved 2011 08 18 . liblime to the koha community fork you tennant digital libraries . blog.libraryjournal.com . 2009 09 15 . retrieved 2011 08 18 . the koha fork and being the change you want to see . librarians matter . retrieved 2011 08 18 . pla 2010 conference after false start ptfs finally acquires liblime . schoollibraryjournal.com . 2010 03 16 . retrieved 2011 08 18 . ptfs contract vehicles . ptfs . retrieved 2013 03 03 . ptfs . ptfs . retrieved 2013 03 03 . small library fights us corporation over software patent . stuff.co.nz . 2011 11 23 . retrieved 2011 11 23 . liblime koha . commit number of liblime koha fork from koha codebase . liblime releases liblime koha version 4.2 . liblime enterprise koha . liblime enterprise koha press release . zebra . index data . 2011 06 28 . retrieved 2011 08 18 . liblime launches koha with class . retrieved 2007 03 08 . future librarians learn using koha . retrieved 2007 03 08 . koha with class library management system classes participating . retrieved 2007 03 08 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title liblime & oldid 718878358 categories free software companiescompanies based in marylandhidden categories articles lacking reliable references from december 2013all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles needing cleanup from november 2011all articles needing cleanupcleanup tagged articles without a reason field from november 2011wikipedia pages needing cleanup from november 2011all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 may 2016 at 04 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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