“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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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)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Partnership with TALKINGtech (October 10, 2008)
Brampton Library Selects Polaris ILS (September 15, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Announces New Hires in Implementation Services (August 12, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Announces New Team Members (July 10, 2008)
Polaris Announces Polaris Fusion ™ (June 24, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Extends Partnership with EnvisionWare (June 3, 2008)
The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC) Selects Polaris ILS (May 13, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Partners with ChiliFresh.com (May 6, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Announces New Team Members in Research & Development and Customer Service (April 29, 2008)
Ouachita Parish Public Library Selects Polaris ILS (February 26, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Announces New Team Members (February 5, 2008)
Dallas Public Library Selects Polaris ILS (January 8, 2008)
Westmoreland County Federated Library System Selects Polaris ILS (December 19, 2007)
Phoenix Public Library System Selects Polaris ILS (November 28, 2007)
Integrated Technology Group Forms Strategic Alliance With Polaris Library Systems (October 24, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces URL Detective (September 4, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems and ALA Partner on Capitol Hill (June 21, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Reports Continued Growth (June 19, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces ILS Version 3.3 (May 21, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Launches SimplyReports, Web-based Report Writer (May 2, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Banner Year for ILS Sales (January 19, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Strong Close in Fourth Quarter (January 11, 2007)
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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/. |