“It's great to be able to customize the Polaris checkout screen with patron data elements of our choice. It maximizes the efficiency of the checkout process. And with 15 agencies circulating over 7.1 million items per year, it matters.”
- Eva Calcagno, Manager, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Oregon
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Yellowhead Regional Library Leverages Polaris API to Create iPad Application (August 17, 2010)
Denver Public Library Selects the Polaris ILS (July 20, 2010)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Auto-Suggest Functionality (July 14, 2010)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Board Appointment (May 11, 2010)
Newmarket Public Library Selects Polaris ILS (March 24, 2010)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Employee Ownership Agreement (January 15, 2010)
Polaris Library Systems to Debut Mobile PAC at ALA Midwinter Conference (January 14, 2010)
Forsyth County Public Library Selects Polaris ILS (November 5, 2009)
Iberia Parish Library Selects Polaris ILS (September 8, 2009)
Baltimore County Public Library Selects Polaris ILS (August 12, 2009)
Miami-Dade Public Library System Selects Polaris ILS (July 30, 2009)
Polaris Library Systems Welcomes New Team Members (July 16, 2009)
Polaris Library Systems Welcomes New Team Members in Customer Support & MIS (June 25, 2009)
Polaris Library Systems Integrates with LibraryThing for Libraries (June 17, 2009)
Polaris Library Systems Announces 13 New Customers (May 11, 2009)
Library Systems Welcomes New Team Members (May 8, 2009)
Polaris Library Systems Announces New Customer Relations Department (March 4, 2009)
Phoenix Public Library Live on the Polaris ILS (February 25, 2009)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Strong 2008 (January 14, 2009)
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Syracuse, NY, May 8, 2009 - Polaris Library Systems, a leading provider of library automation technology, has expanded staffing in key areas of the organization, including customer support, product development, finance, sales, and marketing. David Fulton joins the Polaris customer operations team as a site manager. In this role, David serves as a primary contact for Polaris customers and is the liaison between technical support and customer sites. David comes to Polaris with over ten years of experience as reference/computer literacy librarian at Liverpool Public Library in New York. Prior, David was electronic services librarian at H. Douglas Barclay Law Library at Syracuse University College of Law and network information specialist at AskERIC, also at Syracuse. He has a master's of library science degree from Syracuse University School of Information Studies. Jeanne Otten returns to the Polaris product development team after serving as a systems librarian at the Information Institute of Syracuse, School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Jeanne previously worked as a product analyst at Gaylord Information Systems (now Polaris Library Systems). She resumes her role as a product analyst, specializing in the public access catalog (PAC) and cataloging subsystems of the Polaris ILS. Jeanne has a master's of library science degree from the University of Michigan's School of Information Studies. Chuck Petty, CFO, joins Polaris with over twenty years of financial and business experience. He was previously partner and manager at a regional CPA firm and manager for an international CPA firm. Most recently, Chuck served as chief financial officer of a health care organization in Syracuse. Emily DeMarché joins Polaris as a senior accountant. Emily comes to Polaris with over seven years of experience in accounting and tax preparation. Prior to joining Polaris, she served as a professional accountant at Syracuse China and as a tax senior with Dannible & McKee, LLP. Carla Giorgi comes to Polaris as an account manager for the Midwest Region and Canada. Prior to joining Polaris, Carla worked as a cataloger for Moorestown Library in New Jersey. She has also held high school teaching positions in English, art, and Spanish. Carla is a graduate of Drexel University, where she obtained a master's of science degree in Library and Information Science. Katy Mackey joins the Polaris marketing team after completing her master's of science degree in Media Management at the. S. I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. Katy received her bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Le Moyne College. ### About Polaris Library Systems: For over thirty years, Polaris Library Systems has served libraries with time-saving technology, from its first circulation system in the mid-1970s through its third-generation Polaris Integrated Library System. In addition to its library automation systems, Polaris offers work flow analysis, database enhancement, wireless access, and network services to libraries. For more information about Polaris Library Systems, visit http://www.polarislibrary.com/. |