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2007: 2nd Qtr | 1st Qtr
2006: 4th Qtr | 3rd Qtr | 2nd Qtr | 1st Qtr
2005: 4th Qtr | 3rd Qtr | 2nd Qtr

• 4th Quarter - 2006
  
  • "New Web site covers Cherry Hill"
    Looking for a great local restaurant for a family, business or romantic outing? Cherry Hill Public Library's new Web site has the answer. Want some advice on personal finance, parenting or home improvement? The library's Web site has that, too.
    Source: Courier Post Online
    12/06/06
    
  • "Always in touch with the library"
    For Geoff Shertzer, a PDA is a much easier reference guide than a backpack filled with books. A second-year nursing student at Delaware County Community College, Shertzer and his fellow classmates rely on the handheld devices during clinical rotations. The Dell Axims, provided by the school through grants, allow access to library-related materials in software format when students are away from the traditional campus setting.
    Source: The Delaware County Times
    11/27/06
    
• 3rd Quarter - 2006
  
  • "New research tool hits Unioto classrooms"
    A pair of teachers at Unioto High School are looking forward to a new research tool coming to the school soon. The SchoolRooms project will be a database of Web sites gathered in one location and organized according to Ohio's curriculum content standards.
    Source: Chillicothe Gazette
    09/23/06
    
  • "Wichita PL Upgrades to Horizon 8.0"
    The Wichita PL, KS, is continuing its 15-year relationship with the vendor now known as SirsiDynix by upgrading to Horizon 8.0., while Delaware PLs and schools have agreed to pilot the vendor's SchoolRooms portal aimed at the K–12 audience.
    Source: Library Journal
    08/21/06
    
  • "Library gets new online catalog"
    Glenview (Ill.) Public Library is going live on SirsiDynix Unicorn Library Management System, which will make the library's holdings – and those at 22 other area libraries – accessible to patrons at the Glenview facility as well as from their home computers.
    Source: Pioneer Press
    08/17/2006
    
  • "No Parent Left Behind," Carolyn S. Brodie, Greg Byerly,
    and Ann E. Tepe
    INFOhio has partnered with its automation vendor, SirsiDynix, to develop SchoolRooms, a new multimedia online portal, which will be launched this fall. Teams of Ohio school librarians, teachers, parents, and technicians created and tested SchoolRooms' content, which features the school library's catalog, as well as public library catalogs, online databases, various standards-driven Web sites, and e-content from publishers.
    Source: School Library Journal
    08/1/06
    
  • "Elementary Staffers Develop Online 'SchoolRooms'"
    Two staffers from Wilson Elementary School are sacrificing a copious amount of their summer vacation days to make online research easy for students and teachers in Ohio.
    Source: The Community Press
    07/19/2006
    
  • "Hancock County Library System recognized for post-Katrina efforts"
    The Hancock County Library System was named one of five libraries across the country and Canada to receive the SirsiDynix 2006 Building Better Communities Award.
    Source: Sun Herald
    07/18/2006
    
  • "Millennial Generation Needs Special Handling"
    At the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, Stephen Abram, vice president of Innovation for SirsiDynix, gave a presentation titled "The Kids Are Alright! Millennials and their Information Behaviors."
    Source: School Library Journal
    07/06/2006
    
    
  • "SirsiDynix Bestows Building Better Communities Awards"
    SirsiDynix has tapped five U.S. and Canadian libraries as the winners of this year's Building Better Communities Awards.
    Source: Library Journal
    07/03/2006
    
    
  • "Keeping Up with the Googles," Brian Kenney
    We need to be fearless in creating better online libraries. INFOhio is working on integrating content into SchoolRooms, a portal from SirsiDynix, where students can easily search across the catalog, databases, and Web content to find the most relevant material for their grade and subject area.
    Source: School Library Journal
    07/01/2006
    
• 2nd Quarter - 2006
  
  • "SirsiDynix Announces Building Better Communities Awards Recipients"
    Two Canadian libraries receive the awards, which recognize libraries for creative and enterprising uses of technology to improve their user communities.
    Source: Canadian Library Association
    06/29/2006
    
    
  • "Horizon: Durham and Down Under"
    Two more libraries – one foreign, one domestic – step up to the SirsiDynix Horizon system.
    Source: Library Journal
    06/26/2006
    
    
  • "Danbury Teachers Part of SchoolRooms Project"
    Two teachers from Danbury Local Schools will assist with the creation of SchoolRooms, a new onlne discovery portal for K-12 students, teachers, and parents.
    Source: Port Clinton News Herald
    06/23/2006
    
    
  • "Online SchoolRooms in the Works"
    Learning and teaching is becoming more engaging for Ohio students, parents, and teachers with the creation of SchoolRooms.
    Source: Middletown Journal
    06/20/2006
    
    
  • "Library up for $10,000 Award"
    Money goes to libraries that go above and beyond.
    Source: Northwest Indiana Times
    06/12/2006
    
    
  • "SirsiDynix Expands Service Level Commitments"
    SirsiDynix is expanding its service level commitments for clients in the United States and Canada. The commitments now apply to Horizon and Dynix users, as well as update the commitments established with Unicorn users in 2003.
    Source: EContent
    06/02/2006
    
    
  • "Two Business Intelligence Tools for Libraries: An Introduction and Preliminary Results," Robert E. Molyneux
    This article describes two applications being developed at SirsiDynix that use On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP): SirsiDynix Director's Station and the Normative Data Project for Libraries (NDP).
    Source: The Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac 2006, 51st Edition
    June 2006
    
    
  • "Serials Solutions Enters PL Market"
    Serials Solutions, the ERM company that has become a favorite of many academic libraries, is trying its hand at the public library market – and not in a small way: Serials Solutions has cut a deal with SirsiDynix that has the major ILS vendor acting as a reseller of its wares.
    Source: Library Journal
    05/08/2006
    
    
  • "Talin Bingham Joins SirsiDynix"
    SirsiDynix has tapped industry veteran Talin R. Bingham as senior vice president of technology.
    Source: Library Journal
    05/01/2006
    
    
  • "Born Digital, Not Yesterday: Next-generation Web User Seeks Interactivity," Jared Bernstein
    Today's young people were raised in relation to technology. According to SirsiDynix Vice President of Innovation Stephen Abram, "Decision making, invention, entertainment, and discovery are the user's goals. When we get it right we have a knowledge ecology that is involving, interactive, and inspirational."
    Source: EContent
    May 2006
    
    
  • "SirsiDynix Partners with Serials Solutions; Offers Podcasts for Libraries"
    SirsiDynix has announced a worldwide technology agreement with Serials Solutions, in addition to announcing that the SirsiDynix Institute will offer podcasting as a means of sharing its Web seminars with library and information professionals.
    Source: EContent
    04/28/2006
    
    
  • "Horizon 8.0 is King in Queens"
    Queens Library, N.Y., and SirsiDynix are expanding their partnership to provide the people of Queens and the broader library community with innovative technologies, services, resources, and opportunities.
    Source: Library Journal
    04/17/2006
    
    
  • "DRA Users Fund Free Speech," Michael Rogers
    The Data Research Users' Group has promised donations of $15,000 apiece to to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom To Read Foundation to help those two bodies continue free speech efforts.
    Source: Library Journal
    04/15/2006
    
    
  • "Baltimore County's Lockwood Receives Urban Player Award"
    Lynn Lockwood, assistant director of the Baltimore County Public Library, will receive the Urban Libraries Council/SirsiDynix Urban Player Award for 2006 for helping to create a coalition of community agencies to support emergent literacy in the county.
    Source: Library Journal
    04/13/2006
    
    
  • "SirsiDynix ALA-APA Awards Announced," Lynn Blumenstein
    AFSCME Local 1526 of the Boston Public Library and James Fish, director of the Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, MD, have been named the winners of the American Library Association – Allied Professional Association second annual SirsiDynix-ALA-APA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers.
    Source: Library Journal
    04/01/2006
    
    
  • "Reshuffling the Deck," Marshall Breeding
    Deal-making fueled development of ILS and non-ILS products
    Source: Library Journal
    04/01/2006
    
• 1st Quarter - 2006
  
  • "FAST Teams with SirsiDynix on library searching"
    FAST Search & Transfer is teaming up with library solutions provider SirsiDynix to deliver enterprise search capability that aim to make search results more relevant and easier to understand than traditional html and traditional searching.
    Source: TechWeb.com
    03/22/2006
    
    
  • "Final Thanks"
    Library Journal thanks the generous vendors and library partners - including SirsiDynix - that offered their time and money to help libraries and their users cope with and recover from disaster.
    Source: Library Journal
    03/15/2006
    
    
  • "All (Librarian) Hands On Deck," Marylaine Block with Ann Kim
    SirsiDynix outfitted a bookmobile with hardware and software for the community of Pearlington, Miss., after the area was ravaged by hurricanes during the fall of 2005.
    Source: Library Journal
    03/15/2006
    
    
  • "Abram Wins SLA Election"
    Stephen Abram, vice president of innovation for SirsiDynix and immediate past president of the Canadian Library Association, has been elected to serve as SLA’s president-elect.
    Source: Library Journal
    03/14/2006
    
  • "SirsiDynix Appoints Dean McCausland CFO"
    SirsiDynix taps Dean McCausland to succeed the retiring Larry Smith as its chief financial officer.
    Source: Library Journal
    03/06/2006
    
    
  • "Boston PL Union and Baltimore County's Fish Win SirsiDynix-ALA-APA Awards"
    AFSCME Local 1526 of the Boston Public Library and James Fish, director of the Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, MD, have been named the winners of the SirsiDynix-ALA-APA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers.
    Source: Library Journal
    2/27/2006
    
    
  • "SirsiDynix Launches Building Better Communities Awards"
    SirsiDynix has established a new awards program "to recognize libraries for innovative uses of new technology to improve their user communities."
    Source: Library Journal
    2/20/2006
    
    
  • "Below the Surface,"Caroline Cummins
    New tools-and savvy librarians-are turning the ILS into a gold mine for making more informed decisions.
    Source: Library Journal netConnect
    1/15/2006
    
    
  • "Proof in the Pattern," Scott Nicholson
    Librarians follow the corporate sector toward more data-driven management.
    Source: Library Journal netConnect
    1/15/2006
    
    
  • "Online Content Mitigates Disasters," Mark Fritz
    The world in 2005 had the highest-ever financial losses for weather-related natural disasters. While communities always seem to come together at trying times like these and find a way to go on, digital content now provides many organizations with a way to prepare for and contend with devastating events like these.
    Source: EContent
    Jan/Feb 2006