Bankstown City Library went to tender for a new Library Management System in December 2004. After an exhaustive process Libero was selected as the new Library Management System to be installed at Bankstown City Library. Bankstown Library has 71,000 members in an area population of 172,000. Circulation is 1,300,000 items per year. Bankstown Library has 4 branches. The former Bankstown LMS was GEAC Advance. Bankstown staff are currently being trained and it is anticipated the "go live" date will be 16 December 2005.

Insight Informatics welcomes Bankstown as another valued client.

CPLA annual conference was held at Gosford, NSW on 20-22 July. The conference was well attended by Libero clients and staff.

The theme of the Conference was Feast of Formats and was capped off on the Thursday evening with the Conference Dinner. Most of the Guests were dressed up in Mediaeval costume, and some people were so well disguised, they were hard to recognise.

Libero sponsored the "Libero Bus", transporting guests between venues for the 3 day conference. Libero also sponsored the cruise on Brisbane Waters.

Guests at the conference were provided alternative streams of events over the 3 days of the Conference. Visits were available to the various libraries operated by Gosford Library. Many guests were re-acquainted with former colleagues and the Conference was of benefit to most who attended.

Upper Hunter Regional Library was the first Library to implement the new LiberoWEB for the operation of all the branches. Libero is used at Muswellbrook, and LiberoWEB has been implemented at the six branches.

UPPER HUNTER REGIONAL LIBRARY
The Upper Hunter Regional Library serves a population of 28,570 in three Local Government Areas in the Upper Hunter Region of NSW. These Local Government areas are Muswellbrook, Merriwa and Scone. The population is distributed across 10,937.4 sq. kilometres. The Regional Library has seven branches at Muswellbrook, Denman, Scone, Aberdeen, Merriwa, Cassilis and Murrurundi. The Region was recently expanded to include parts of the former Murrurundi Shire. The Murrurundi Library is now the 7th Library in the Region.

LiberoWEB
LiberoWEB is the new web-based module of Libero used by smaller Branches of Libraries to provide Issues, Returns, Transfers, Marc Catalogue, Fines, Bulk Changes, Reservations, and Member Maintenance. The new module provides a simpler solution for branches that are not involved in setting parameters, cataloguing, and serials . All available modules are selected from one screen. LiberoWEB operates via the Web in conjunction with the Libero Library Management System.