NExpress Shared Automation

Service Target: All libraries

Contact Persons: Jim Minges, Mickey Coalwell, Diana Weaver

The NExpress automation service enables libraries of all types and sizes to provide rapid and direct access to shared library resources through a technically advanced library automation system at a reduced cost, with training, technical support and software enhancements provided by NEKLS. The NExpress service is an Internet web based automation service that features flexible searching, item availability status and the ability for library users to directly place requests for items in the collection of any participating library, with delivery by courier to the patron’s local library. The NExpress integrated library system is transitioning to a second generation that will feature:

• A new Koha ZOOM open source software platform featuring a sophisticated search engine and flexible user interface.
• Interlibrary loan links to other library catalogs.
• Direct training and technical support service from NEKLS.
• Web hosting and software customization through Liblime, a national leader in supporting open source library software.

All NEKLS libraries are welcome to join the NExpress service. Thirteen libraries are currently participating in NExpress, and an additional 10 libraries have agreed to join the service in 2008-09:

Current NExpress Libraries

Atchison Library Library

Basehor Community Library

Bonner Springs Public Library

Centralia Community Library

Morrill Public Library (Hiawatha)

Lyndon Carnegie Library

Meriden Community Library

Northeast Kansas Library System

Nortonville Public Library

Silver Lake Library

Tonganoxie Public Library

Williamsburg Community Library

Winchester Public Library

New NExpress Libraries 2008-09

Baldwin City Library

Carbondale City Library

Effingham Public Library

Linwood Community Library

McLouth Public Library

Oskaloosa Public Library

Overbrook Public Library

Seneca Free Library

Delaware Township Library (Valley Falls)

Wellsville Public Library