A final extension of preferred pricing: KO urges public libraries to act now

With its charter subscriber agreement with Knowledge Ontario set to expire on July 31, BiblioCommons, in recognition of KO’s fostering role, is extending preferred costing for a year to any Ontario public library that signs on before September 30, 2011.

Knowledge Ontario urges any Ontario library or consortium thinking about subscribing to this service in the next two years to do so now. Under the preferred pricing structure, the initial implementation fee is waived, smaller libraries have reduced minimums, and with reduced costs the total price is less than if you subscribe later. If you are a smaller or mid-sized library system, this is your last opportunity to take advantage of pricing for BiblioCommons otherwise only available to larger libraries.

BiblioCommons is working with existing early adopter libraries to move to standalone agreements.

History

Oakville Public Library was the pilot library for the BiblioCommons online catalogue.

Milestones

• March 2011: Markham, Ottawa, Hamilton, and Pickering public libraries go live with BiblioCommons bMobile smartphone app.
• December 2010: BiblioCommons registers its 500,000th user.
• October 2009: Ottawa Public Library goes live with the first bilingual, English/French version of the service.
• July 2008: Oakville Public Library signs on as the first Ontario library to pilot BiblioCommons.
  

Ontario public libraries to adopt BiblioCommons

• June 2011: Orangeville, Windsor, Burlington, Barrie and Richmond Hill public libraries
• October 2010: Pickering and Markham public libraries
• August 2010: Hamilton Public Library
• June 2010: Brantford and Woodstock public libraries
• October 2009: Ottawa, Stratford, West Perth and Perth East public libraries
• September 2009: Halton Hills Public Library
• July 2008: Oakville Public Library
  

BiblioCommons is also live in BC, Alberta, the US, Australia and New Zealand. More.