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EBSCO Releases Social Work Reference Center™ Bringing Evidence-Based Information to Social Workers
LISWire - Thu, 05/02/2013 - 10:13
Social Work Reference Center is a new evidence-based point-of-care resource available from EBSCO. It is geared for a wide-range of health professionals and is designed to provide the most current evidence for patient care.
EBSCO Releases Social Work Reference Center™ Bringing Evidence-Based Information to Social Workers
~ Latest Evidence-Based Information for Clinical Practice,
Education and Research at the Point-of-Care ~
IPSWICH, Mass. / BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — May 2, 2013 — Social Work Reference Center™ (SWRC), a resource designed specifically for clinical practice, education and research, is the latest addition to the point-of-care product line from EBSCO. Social Work Reference Center is a comprehensive reference tool that provides evidence-based information to social workers and other mental health professionals directly at the point-of-care.
Designed to increase the speed and accuracy of decisions and provide the most current evidence for patient care, Social Work Reference Center, will appeal to hospital and healthcare providers, corporate provider networks, religious and nonprofit organizations, government agencies, school agencies and institutions that provide social services education programs.
Social Work Reference Center provides the latest evidence-based information through a variety of content types including evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and skill competency checklists. The resource also includes clinical assessment tools, practice guidelines, drug information, continuing education modules and patient education information.
The evidence-based information provided by Social Work Reference Center stems from a seven-step evidence-based methodology to systematically identify and critically appraise all clinical content. Literature surveillance occurs daily and topics are updated as evidence changes.
For more information about Social Work Reference Center and EBSCO’s other point-of-care resources please go to: http://www.ebscohost.com/pointOfCare/point-of-care-resources.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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La Veta Public Library Goes Live on LibLime Koha 4.14
LISWire - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 14:33
North Bethesda, MD, May 1, 2013- The La Veta Public Library, located in La Veta, Colorado and a member of the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), is now live in the AspenCat LibLime Koha Union Catalog for all collection and patron management services.
The La Veta Public Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy ILS system. With the addition of the La Veta Public Library to CLiC, there are now over 627,000 items and over 368,000 bibliographic records in the CLiC LibLime Koha Union Catalog.
About the La Veta Public Library
La Veta Public Library District’s goal is to assemble and organize services, collections of materials, and other resources to meet the information needs and interests of the people it serves and to provide free access to diverse ideas in a variety of formats. In its efforts to fulfill the mission statement, the La Veta Public Library hosts various events for the La Veta community every month including: yoga, adult and teen programs, and Brown Bag Books, a series of book discussions held over lunch. The library has been serving their community since it was first started in 1974.
About the Pioneer Consortium
CLiC, headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, serves over 400 libraries throughout the state. 35 of these libraries are part of the AspenCat LibLime Koha Union Catalog. Currently the database includes over 627,000 items. Resource sharing is one of the key components of the system with libraries requesting over 1,200 items from each other every month. Requests are growing as more patrons discover how easy it is to request an item not held at his or her home library. CLiC is committed to maintaining AspenCat as a fully featured, patron-focused system. In partnership with the Colorado State Library, they have added links to external databases using EzProxy, Plinket-hosted website access, and SWIFT interconnectivity. They are also currently offering a cooperative purchase for downloadable audio books from Recorded Books, and ebooks from the 3M Library Cloud system. For more information, please contact Shannon O'Grady at 303-422-1150 or SOGrady@clicweb.org.
About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.
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Griffin Free Public Library Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support
LISWire - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 08:34
4/30/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com
Griffin Free Public Library Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support
ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that Griffin Free Public Library in New Hampshire is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.
ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Griffin Free Public Library at the end of February and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services for their nearly 20,000 items and 2,000 patrons.
Ricky Sirois, Director at the Griffin Free Public Library spoke about the library’s decision to migrate to an open source ILS:
“I was particularly pleased with ByWater Solutions’ responsiveness to our needs throughout the transition. The training was a particular highlight for us, as it met our small library’s particular areas of concern while remaining within our budget. I am excited about joining the Koha community and the open source movement. The community and ByWater will provide our library with constant improvements and support from a worldwide network of users. Along with all of that our patrons have online access to their accounts for the first time in our history.”
“Bringing on new partners is always exciting for us at ByWater,” started CEO, Brendan Gallagher, “but it’s especially pleasing when we can offer services to libraries like Griffin Free who were previously unable to offer cutting edge automation services to their patrons within their budget. We look forward to working with Ricky and Griffin Free Public Library on continuing the services offered by Koha.”
About Griffin Free Public Library:
Griffin Free Public Library in Auburn, New Hampshire, offers a variety of resources and services to library patrons. The library offers access to nearly 20,000 items and serves nearly 2,000 patrons. For more information about Griffin Free Public Library, please visit: http://griffinfree.com
About Koha:
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.
Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org/
About ByWater Solutions:
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/
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Lester Public Library of the South Central Library System (SCLS) Goes Live on LibLime Koha 4.14
LISWire - Mon, 04/29/2013 - 15:02
North Bethesda, MD, April 29, 2013- The Lester Public Library of Arpin, located in Arpin, WI, has joined the South Central Library System (SCLS) LibLime Koha union catalog for all collection and patron management services.
The Lester Public Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy ILS system. With the addition of the Lester Public Library to the South Central Library System, there are now over 836,200 bibliographic records and nearly 3.2 million items in the entire SCLS catalog.
About the Lester Public Library
Located in the village of Arpin, WI, the Lester Public Library provides a variety of children, teenager, and adult programming. The Lester Public Library offers plenty of services ranging from reference and community information to a summer library program for children and teenagers of all ages.
About the South Central Library System
The South Central Library System strives to help its member libraries provide the best possible service to the public. SCLS maintains a 42-member LibLime Koha union catalog with over 835,000 bibliographic records, more than 2.3 million item records, and three circulation transactions per second during peak production. SCLS enables and promotes research sharing among its member libraries by providing access to shared digital content, contracts for library resources, cooperative management services, circulation/interlibrary loan services, technology service, and a world-class delivery service.
About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.
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Gale Announces National Geographic Kids
LISWire - Tue, 04/23/2013 - 12:48
First Resource Focused on Younger Audiences Joins National Geographic Virtual Library
Farmington Hills, Mich., April 23, 2013 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the launch of National Geographic Kids, the fourth resource in the National Geographic Virtual Library product line. This new resource contains material appropriate for younger audiences, and boasts unique content that is not duplicated in other available National Geographic Virtual Library products.
“National Geographic magazine is loved and recognized by all audiences and ages, even though the content is often more accessible for advanced learners,” said Frank Menchaca, senior vice president, global product management, research, school & professional, Cengage Learning. “With the launch of National Geographic Kids, we’re able to offer content and navigation that is age appropriate and is supportive of curriculum and learning standards adopted by many states nationwide.”
National Geographic Kids includes the complete issues of National Geographic Kids magazine from 2009-present, 500 downloadable images, and 200 National Geographic Kids books, including reference books as well as nonfiction books on history, biography, science and technology and the National Geographic Readers, which cover wildlife, pets, nature and other topics. The interface also contains user-friendly design elements, which makes finding content more intuitive for younger audiences. National Geographic Kids is also accessible via the National Geographic Virtual Library interface, allowing for easy access and reference with the other resources in the product line.
The content in National Geographic Kids supports the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The books included in National Geographic Kids provide elementary and middle school students with opportunities to practice the foundational reading skills required to achieve fluency and comprehension. The CCSS also encourage students to gain an understanding of other cultures, and the National Geographic series Countries of the World and Holidays Around the World assist with that. National Geographic Kids also offers students an opportunity to engage with complex text – the English Language Arts CCSS emphasize the need to provide all students with consistent opportunities to confront and comprehend grade‐level complex text. In addition, National Geographic Kids provides high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary and middle school English language arts, social studies and science classrooms.
“We’re excited to have this content digital and searchable for students to help support them in their learning endeavors,” said Julie Agnone, vice president, editorial operations, National Geographic Kids Publishing and Media. “Additionally, we’re interested to see how teachers, including students working toward their teaching certification, use National Geographic Kids with their curriculum development.”
Customers have the option to purchase or subscribe to National Geographic Kids as a stand-alone product or coupled with the full National Geographic Virtual Library line. For more information on National Geographic Virtual Library or to request a trial, please visit http://www.gale.cengage.com/ngvl/ or contact Kristina Massari at kristina.massari@cengage.com.
About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, software and services company, empowering educators and driving learner engagement through personalized services and course-driven digital solutions that bridge from the library to the classroom. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats. For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.cengage.com.
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Handbook of Indexing Techniques: A Guide for Beginning Indexers, Fifth Edition, by Linda K. Fetters
LISWire - Fri, 04/19/2013 - 16:01
For Immediate Release:
For information contact:
Rob Colding
Information Today, Inc.
(609) 654-6266, ext. 330
April 19, 2013, Medford, New Jersey--Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced the publication of Handbook of Indexing Techniques: A Guide for Beginning Indexers, Fifth Edition by Linda K. Fetters.
About the Book
The fifth edition of the Handbook of Indexing Techniques offers clear explanations of indexing techniques along with many helpful examples. In addition to its easy-to-follow "how-to" coverage, the book includes information about indexing seminars and training programs, professional organizations, and indexing standards. Chapter 8, "Electronic Documents," now includes coverage of embedded indexing, Cambridge University Press indexing, XML indexing, ebook indexing, web indexing, and taxonomies.
Praise for Handbook of Indexing Techniques, Fifth Edition
"A clear and concise guide to the essentials of indexing ... the perfect choice for a novice indexer, authors desiring to index their own work, or document specialists needing to index their organizations' materials. If you are considering indexing as a career, this handbook will help you make up your mind."
—Frances S. Lennie, Indexing Research,
Theodore C. Hines Award Winner,
and 2X ASI President
"I welcome this fifth edition! It's the most practical and straightforward guide to the process of composing index entries and compiling a working index."
—Kate Mertes, Mertes Editorial Services
"Beginning indexers will find a wealth of information in the Handbook of Indexing Techniques. Fetters provides good introductions to the variety of indexing methods and covers everything from cards to XML to folksonomies. Students will find the extensive bibliographies very helpful."
—Jan Wright,Wright Information
Indexing Services
"Linda Fetters has written a book that covers indexing from the very beginning to the most sophisticated stages—it will help novices get started and then guide them to learn how to deal with embedded projects and ebooks. I have used this book and recommend that all indexers include it in their personal libraries."
—Enid Zafran, Indexing Partners
Linda K. Fetters has been a freelance indexer for more than 25 years, specializing mainly in bio-medical publications and computer manuals. Her book A Guide to Indexing Software, was a best-seller for the American Society for Indexing (ASI). Her articles on indexing and indexing software have appeared in Database, Key Words: Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, The Indexer, Library Software Review, ONLINE, and Small Press magazine. She has served ASI in the positions of corresponding secretary, vice president, president (1992–1993), and administrator. She received ASI’s Theodore C. Hines Award for Continuous Dedication and Exceptional Service to ASI in 2001.
Handbook of Indexing Techniques: A Guide for Beginners, Fifth Edition (192 pp/paperback/$28.00/ISBN 978-1-57387-461-8) is published by Information Today, Inc. and is available wherever professional books and ebooks are sold. For more information, contact the publisher by calling (800) 300-9868; faxing (609) 654-4309; emailing custserv@infotoday.com; or visiting the ITI website at www.infotoday.com.
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Code4Lib Journal Issue #20 Published
LISWire - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 13:18
The Code4Lib Journal editors are excited to bring you this latest issue with seven articles. Issue #20 can be found at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue20
The first set of articles show ways to manipulate metadata records. In Workflow Tools for Digital Curation Andrew James Weidner and Daniel Gelaw Alemneh describe how they use AutoHotkey and Selenium IDE at the University of North Texas to automate various aspects of manipulating digital objects. Heidi Frank show how to process MARC records from Archivists Toolkit in Augmenting the Cataloger’s Bag of Tricks; the techniques – using MarcEdit, Python, and PyMARC – are transferrable to other sources of records as well. In Keeping up with Ebooks Kathryn Lybarger introduces a tool for updating batches of vendor-supplied records through a set of normalization routines.
Jason Clark show how Montana State University is using YouTube as a digital video platform in Developing a Digital Video Library with the YouTube Data API. Getting users what they want without extraneous hits is always a challenge, and in Better Search Through Query Expansion Using Controlled Vocabularies and Apache Solr demonstrates how to configure SOLR to make the best use of a hierarchical controlled vocabulary. In Breaking Up With CONTENTdm Heather Gilbert and Tyler Mobley lead us through the migration of a repository to Fedora Commons using Drupal, Blacklight and Rutgers’ OpenWMS software. And for the hardware geeks, Tim Ribaric and Jonathan Younker describe how to build a simple desk counter tied to a Google Spreadsheet in Arduino-enabled Patron Interaction Counting.
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Rocky View School District Adds Six New Libraries to Its LibLime Koha Union Catalog
LISWire - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 10:55
North Bethesda, MD, April 17, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Rocky View School District is adding six more libraries to its district-wide LibLime Koha union catalog. Bow Valley High School, Bert Church High School, Prince of Peace Lutheran School, Nose Creek Elementary School, Mitford Middle School, and Banded Peak School will be the newest school libraries to join the Rocky View LibLime Koha union catalog.
During the upcoming months, Rocky View School District will work with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training. As each of the six libraries is added, each of the libraries will enjoy the benefits of LibLime’s support and hosting in LibLime’s distributed computing cloud platform.
About The Rocky View School District
Rocky View Schools serves residents to the west, north and east of the City of Calgary. The jurisdiction provides educational services to over 18,000 public students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Rocky View Schools is the fifth-largest school board in Alberta, employing more than 2,000 staff.
About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.
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Sterling College Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support
LISWire - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 09:29
4/17/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com
Sterling College Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support
ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.
ByWater Solutions completed the migration for Sterling College at the beginning of February and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services for them.
Petra Vogel, Librarian at Sterling College commented on the library’s decision to migrate to Koha:
“I was excited about converting our library system to Koha with ByWater Solutions. However I was also somewhat nervous because, except for a very part-time coworker, our library is pretty much a one-woman operation. On top of that, just as I was working on sending our data, our campus IT person left to pursue another career. The folks at ByWater Solutions provided the training and support needed to make the migration a success. Overall it was a positive learning experience for me. I felt, and still feel, 100% supported by the team at ByWater.”
“I had the pleasure of training Petra and her staff on their new Koha system.” Commented Nicole Engard, Vice President of Education at ByWater Solutions. “I love getting to visit libraries like the one at Sterling College. The team was excited about the change, eager to learn and ready to share their knowledge with others. That’s just the type of community member we love to welcome to Koha.”
About Sterling College:
Sterling College is a small, progressive, liberal arts college in northern Vermont, in the heart of a rural region called the Northeast Kingdom. Sterling is unique in many ways, among them our small size, our environmental focus, and our commitment to grassroots sustainability. The Sterling library collection focuses on environmental and resource issues and supports our areas of study: Conservation Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Natural History, Northern Studies, Outdoor Education & Leadership, and Sustainable Agriculture. The walls of the library serve as an art gallery featuring Vermont artists. For more information about Sterling College, please visit: http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/library.html
About Koha:
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.
Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org/
About ByWater Solutions:
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/
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Backstage surpasses 5 million mark in RFID tagging
LISWire - Tue, 04/16/2013 - 15:22
PROVO, Utah, April 16, 2013 — Backstage Library Works, a provider of on-site services to libraries around the world, has placed its 5-millionth radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. With projects that range from applying and encoding 76,000 RFID labels for one library to tagging 1.6 million items across 35 branches for another, Backstage is leading the way in efficiency, speed and accuracy.
Libraries and their patrons in North America and the United Kingdom are reaping the benefits of Backstage’s customized, time-saving RFID tagging services. Backstage provides personnel and other resources to quickly process tagging backlogs, often the final step to make an RFID system fully functional. Working with tags and hardware from a variety of suppliers, Backstage has assisted libraries of all types in transitioning from barcodes to RFID.
John Reese, on-site services product manager for Backstage, explains:
"Having Backstage tag the collection allows your library staff to focus on serving patrons. That's especially important as the new RFID checkout technology is coming online.
"Meanwhile, a Backstage project manager is providing expertise in workflows and equipment, and our full-time tagging team is getting the project done, quickly and accurately.
"When you put a price on internal resources — management and taggers from the library staff — then calculate the labor savings at the circulation desk when you have your collection tagged months sooner than would otherwise be possible, you will find, like so many of our clients, that the price for our tagging service is comparable to what it would cost you to do it yourself."
Recent Backstage RFID projects include tagging at the Birmingham (U.K.) Public Library, and at the Peninsula Library System, in San Mateo, Calif.
About Backstage Library Works
Backstage's objective is to provide the most technologically advanced and efficient means for delivering professional library services. With over 25 years of experience, the company is known for its expertise in handling complex and unique projects. Backstage specializes in solutions for cataloging, authority control, digitization, preservation microfilm, and on-site needs. In providing services to more than a thousand libraries, large and small, public and private, and in locations across the globe, Backstage has cultivated an understanding of libraries, their mission, their operations, and the challenges they face. Backstage offices are located in Provo, Utah, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Contact
Richard Covington | Marketing Manager
Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Phone: 801.356.1852 | Fax: 801.356.8220
news@bslw.com | www.bslw.com
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The George H. and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial Library Selects Evergreen
LISWire - Tue, 04/16/2013 - 14:42
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Duluth, GA —April 16, 2013
The George H. and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial Library in Hudson has selected the Evergreen Open Source Library System to update and replace their current proprietary system. They are the second New Hampshire library system to migrate to the Evergreen platform. Equinox Software has been contracted to provided data migration and staff training services and will provide 24/7 technical support to the library’s Evergreen implementation.
The library will launch the new catalog in May. Patrons can be assured that their holds will remain in the system and all library card information, PINs and system logins will stay the same. The biggest change will be the new look of the catalog as well as some additional features that will be available in the coming months.
According to Charlie Matthews, Rodgers Memorial Library Director, "The library will be closed on Tuesday, April 30 for staff training in order to prepare for this transition. We will keep our borrowers informed throughout this transition, and I encourage anyone with questions or comments to contact me via phone or email."
About George H and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial
The George H. and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial Library serves the town of Hudson, a community of 25,000 located in southern New Hampshire. Funds for the now 4 year-old library were donated by Phil and Al Rodgers, in memory of their parents.
About Evergreen
Evergreen is a robust, open-source integrated library system best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia. However, it has also proven equally successful scaled down for even the smallest libraries. Evergreen now supports almost 1,200 libraries of every type-public, academic, special, and school media centers across 4 countries, 31 U.S. states, and 8 Canadian provinces. King County Public Library System, SCLENDS, and the NC Cardinal consortiums are all currently running Evergreen. For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.
About Equinox Software, Inc.
Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a leader in open source solutions for libraries. Their goal is to engage and support a rapidly growing open source community while assisting libraries in moving away from expensive proprietary vendors and products.
For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.
Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571
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LibLime Successfully Finishes Pioneer Consortium Catalog Migration
LISWire - Thu, 04/11/2013 - 16:37
North Bethesda, MD, April 11, 2013- With the inclusion of the Arapahoe Public Library bibliographic, patron, and circulation transaction records, LibLime has completed the Pioneer Consortium Phase One library migration project. All of the member libraries are now live on LibLime Koha 4.14.
For nearly two years, LibLime Project Managers have been working with Pioneer Consortium staff members to migrate bibliographic, item, patron, and circulation transaction data from their legacy ILS systems to LibLime Koha 4.14. A total of 28 libraries representing 18 autonomous library systems throughout the state of Nebraska are now using LibLime Koha to manage their collections. Following the completion of the Pioneer Consortium migration, there are nearly 600,000 bibliographic records, 1.52 million item records, and 332,000+ patron records in the LibLime Koha union catalog.
About the Pioneer Consortium
The Pioneer Consortium continues to expand the number of members that share the LibLime Koha union catalog. The successes of the early members of the consortium are noticed by more and more libraries around the state and the consortium membership continues to grow. One of the main attractions is access to the LibLime Koha union catalog.
About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.
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Credo Announces New Technology to Enhance and Streamline Research through EBSCO Discovery Service™
LISWire - Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:11
Credo Announces New Technology to Enhance and Streamline Research through EBSCO Discovery Service™
~ Mutual Customers to Benefit from Continued Integration of Library Vendors ~
BOSTON / OXFORD, England — April 11, 2013 — Research just got easier and more efficient for end-users whose libraries subscribe to Credo solutions and EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO.
Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, today announced it has deployed new technology that integrates its growing library of Topic Pages with EBSCO Discovery Service. Students who search EDS will now see Topic Pages, which provide a gateway through Credo’s trusted multimedia-rich reference content to other library resources, alongside their search results, providing a highly targeted starting point for deeper research. Soon these searches will also retrieve Credo full-text reference entries, high resolution images and videos.
EBSCO Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Michael Gorrell says as a provider of discovery services for libraries EBSCO is always working to improve the end-user experience. “By leveraging this new technology from Credo we are able to offer a new reference layer that sets the context for information discovery and make further use of existing library resources within the discovery environment. This agreement expands upon our partnership with Credo to further address the research needs of libraries and the end user.”
“One of Credo’s primary goals is to inform users’ research process, giving them not only the answers they seek for their immediate information need but providing them with the skills they need to conduct effective research in the future,” said Carol Helton, Credo’s Executive Vice President of Customer Solutions and Marketing. “By partnering with EBSCO, an established world leader in information discovery and delivery, we are able to leverage our content, technologies and services to meet users at their point of need.”
Credo’s new technology is available at no cost to libraries that subscribe to both Credo and EBSCO Discovery Service. For additional information please email learnmore@credoreference.com.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
About Credo
A 2013 SIIA CODiE Award winner, Credo believes that everyone deserves the ability to learn and the opportunity to succeed.
To help people achieve their academic, professional and personal goals, Credo partners with libraries, educators, publishers and technology providers to deliver solutions for developing information skills. Founded in 1999, Credo has offices in Boston and the UK. For additional information about Credo and its Literati solutions please visit http://corp.credoreference.com.
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Five New Databases from Accessible Archives Inc. Available in EBSCO Discovery Service
LISWire - Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:03
Primary Source content from five new Accessible Archives databases is now available through EBSCO Discovery Service. The details are below or can be read at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10622233.htm. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Five New Databases from Accessible Archives Inc. Available in EBSCO Discovery Service™
~ Partnership Between EBSCO Publishing and Accessible Archives Inc. Brings Archived Historical Information to EBSCO Discovery Service™ Users ~
IPSWICH, Mass. / BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — April 11, 2013 — A new agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Accessible Archives, Inc. will enable additional primary source content to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata from five new Accessible Archives’ databases will be added to EDS, the most comprehensive and robust collection of metadata from the best content sources. The addition of this content will serve as a valuable resource for EBSCO Discovery Service users with an interest in American history and culture.
The new databases from Accessible Archives include:
• Frank Leslie’s Weekly
• The National Anti-Slavery Standard
• National Citizen and Ballot Box
• The Revolution
• American County Histories IV: West
Frank Leslie’s Weekly is an illustrated literary and news publication that ran from 1852 until 1922. Frank Leslie’s Weekly provided reports of wars from John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish-American War and the First World War. It also included extensive coverage of events such as the Klondike gold rush of 1897, the laying of the 1858 Atlantic Cable and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Established in 1840, the Standard sought to extend the rights of slaves across the country and also advocated suffrage for women.
The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal edited by American women’s rights advocate, Matilda Joslyn Gage that published essays on a wide range of issues, including regular columns about prominent women in history and female inventors.
The women’s suffrage movement was also the subject of The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper that was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Published between 1868 and 1872, The Revolution’s influence on the national woman’s rights movement was enormous and it confronted subjects not discussed in most mainstream publications of the time.
American County Histories IV: West is one of four geographic groupings of American County Histories an essential resource for local historical and genealogical research. American County Histories IV: West includes county histories with regional overviews and general community conditions for Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Accessible Archives, Inc. is an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases encompassing rich, comprehensive material found in leading historical periodicals, books and newspapers. Accessible Archives content also provides unique historical elements reflecting broad views of American history and culture. Information includes: eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records.
EBSCO Discovery Service users will have the ability to search the full text of Accessible Archives resources bringing an extended list of results alongside additional library resources. EDS creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.
Accessible Archives, Inc. is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.
EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.
About Accessible Archives, Inc.
Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a large team of conversion specialists to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat or hard copy form or as images only. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current. Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels. Unlimited Priorities LLC is the exclusive sales & marketing agent for Accessible Archives and also facilitated the negotiations for this agreement.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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ByWater Solutions Welcomes David Noe as a Koha Migrations Specialist
LISWire - Wed, 04/10/2013 - 14:15
4/10/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com
ByWater Solutions Welcomes David Noe as a Koha Migrations Specialist
ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome David Noe as Migrations Specialist. David will join our expert Koha migrations team in assisting new partners in the transition to the Koha open source ILS.
David received his BA in American Studies and MLIS from the University of Alabama. After graduate school he moved back to his home town (Huntsville, Alabama) for a position with SirsiDynix. Since then David has served as Technical Services Librarian at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas and Digital Services Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
David commented on his recent decision to join the ByWater Solutions team:
“Whether working for a library or a library vendor, I see myself as a librarian. Knowing the challenges with resources and technologies many, if not most, libraries face, I believe ByWater’s model of supporting open source is one that works well for library world. I have been following ByWater’s growth over the last four years, and I am impressed with their record of service. I hope I can contribute to that work. An opportunity to join an organization in ByWater’s stage of growth is rare, indeed. I am genuinely excited to have such an opportunity.”
“David brings years of expertise in academic libraries, systems support, integration, and development to ByWater Solutions. We are thrilled to have him join us on the migration team!” commented Joy Nelson, Director of Migrations.
About ByWater Solutions:
With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, support options and development of the enterprise class open source library system, Koha. Offering a 24/7 technical helpline, ByWater Solutions’ clients have the support system they need to make their software work for them. ByWater Solutions pledges to share 100% of all developed code to the Koha community for the strengthening and advancement of the Koha ILS. For more information about ByWater Solutions, please visit: http://www.bywatersolutions.com
About Koha:
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.
Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org
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ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® now available for Alumni
LISWire - Wed, 04/10/2013 - 11:20
The American Theological Library Association and EBSCO announce a new produce that allows alumnie to search teh valuable resources they used as students. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Lisa
ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® now available for Alumni
~ New Product from ATLA and EBSCO Allows Alumni to Search the Valuable Resources They Used as Students ~
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. / IPSWICH, Mass. — April 10, 2013 — The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and EBSCO are announcing a new product offering aimed at alumni interested in searching the valuable resources they used as students. The ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® (ATLA CPLI®) for ALUM may be purchased by any institution that subscribes to the ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® (ATLA CPLI®).
“We are delighted to offer ATLA CPLI for ALUM. With this product, institutions can directly support their alumni by providing them access to the premier index of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism,” commented Margot Lyon, ATLA’s Director of Business Development.
“This offering builds on the success of other alumni products offered by ATLA and EBSCO, including ATLASerials® for ALUM, which provides full-text access to key journals in religion and theology,” said EBSCO Director of Sales, Licensed Databases, Ryan Bernier.
For information about subscriptions, contact EBSCO at information@EBSCOhost.com.
About ATLA
Established in 1946, the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is a professional association of nearly one thousand individual, institutional, and affiliate members providing programs, products and services for theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLA offers a prestigious product line of electronic resources to support the scholarly study of religion and theology, including the ATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®), ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) and ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® (ATLA CPLI®). For more information, visit http://www.atla.com.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
EBSCO
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebsco.com
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LibLime, a Division of PTFS, Announces the Public Release of LibLime Koha 4.14
LISWire - Fri, 04/05/2013 - 17:02
North Bethesda, MD, April 5, 2013 – LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces the public release of LibLime Koha 4.14.
LibLime Koha 4.14 has been in beta production release among sponsoring libraries since the fall of 2012. After completing a rigorous beta testing phase, the application is now publicly available for all as a download at http://www.liblime.com/demos as well as http://www.koha.org/liblime-koha. Release Notes are available at each site. The source code is also available for public access in the LibLime unified git repository located at https://github.com/liblime/LibLime-Koha.
The latest version of LibLime Koha continues to add deeper support for consortia and enhanced performance for larger and larger collections with increased circulation traffic. With all LibLime Koha versions since 4.8, the entire codebase continues to run in the Plack environment for increased performance. LibLime Koha 4.14 continues to provide libraries with the most advanced functionality and performance available in the open development ILS arena.
Some of the new functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14 includes many features designed by and for librarians to allow for local customizations in OPAC design and some additional SIP2 messages. New features in LibLime Koha 4.14 include:
• The addition of Solr
• Full faceted support in the OPAC
• An embedded New Titles list
• Additional functionality for new and expired holds
About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.
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Memorial University of Newfoundland’s newspaper digitization project to reach 100,000-image milestone with Backstage
LISWire - Fri, 04/05/2013 - 13:47
BETHLEHEM, Pa., April 5, 2013 — The Centre for Newfoundland Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland's Queen Elizabeth II Library has entered into a new phase of a long-term newspaper digitization project with Backstage Library Works. This phase will increase the digital collection's size to more than 100,000 images, adding some 28,000 pages to the 93,000 already digitized since the project began in 2010.
Joan Ritcey, head of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, praised Backstage's work:
"We looked widely to find a microfilm newspaper digitization company which would create high-res images, excellent OCR-ing and software which would separate individual articles from long columns of text on the screen. Technically, Backstage has given us what we needed.
"On a personal cooperation level, the Backstage staff is very easy to work with. Our digitization people interact with them regularly and whether our communication regards the return of original materials or discussions around customization, we always get a response from Backstage the same day."
St. John's, Newfoundland, home of Memorial University, is steeped in a rich history that contributes significantly to the story of the making and life of North America. The Centre for Newfoundland Studies seeks to preserve and tell this history. These preservation efforts include creating a digital collection accessible to students at Memorial University, and to scholars, researchers and hobbyists worldwide.
Backstage is a partner in this ambitious work, providing digital scans of regional newspapers spanning the 20th century. Digitizing from both microfilm and hard copy, a team of digital experts creates archival-quality TIFF images from which JPEG image files and OCR text are derived, then combined into PDF collections. Backstage also creates METS/ALTO metadata, which provides users a rich search experience in CONTENTdm, the digital asset management system used by Memorial University.
Since March 2010, Backstage has digitized over 70 reels of microfilm for the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. The quality of the original microfilming does not always meet modern preservation practices, with inconsistent lighting and image densities causing prevalent contrast issues among the older reels. Backstage professionals know how to handle these unique materials for the best end-result, using technologies and practices honed through 15 years of providing archival digitization services and 25 years working with preservation microfilm.
Kelly Barrall, Backstage digital project coordinator, explained how her team balances the technical demands of the collection:
"A lot of Digital Imaging processes found in the market today rely primarily on software automation. Instead, at Backstage, our approach to the library's project is to find just the right balance of automation and human intervention. This means we apply custom enhancements or hand cropping to some images. We even refer back to the original microfilm when collecting the metadata during the 100% quality assurance inspection of the images, just to verify that the final results represent the original microfilm content."
All project consultation, profiling, materials preparation, scanning, metadata creation and customer support for this project will be provided by the Digitization team in Backstage's Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, office.
Joan Ritcey is Head of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at Memorial University Libraries, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
About Backstage Library Works
Backstage's objective is to provide the most technologically advanced and efficient means for delivering professional library services. With over 25 years of experience, the company is known for its expertise in handling complex and unique projects. Backstage specializes in solutions for cataloging, authority control, digitization, preservation microfilm, and on-site needs. In providing services to more than a thousand libraries, large and small, public and private, and in locations across the globe, Backstage has cultivated an understanding of libraries, their mission, their operations, and the challenges they face. Backstage offices are located in Provo, Utah, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Texas Library Consortium Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support
LISWire - Fri, 04/05/2013 - 10:10
4/5/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com
Texas Library Consortium Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support
ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Texas Library Consortium is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.
ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Texas Library Consortium at the beginning of February and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services for their nearly 42 libraries, 1 million items and 120,000 patrons.
Jerry Brock, Owner, e-Libris Technologies discussed the decision of switching to Koha with ByWater Solutions:
“e-Libris Technologies and the Texas Library Consortium chose ByWater Solutions based upon the vendor’s high service rankings, ongoing improvement of the Koha open source software, and their ability to migrate 42 libraries within a single weekend on short notice. The ByWater migration and support teams combined to ensure the transition was successful, and the libraries feel we have taken an important step toward improving service and reliability for their patrons.”
“We ran into a unique situation when we migrated TLC over to the Koha Community and ByWater” Stated Brendan Gallagher, ByWater’s CEO.
He continues: “The consortium was faced with a difficult decision: Either renew with their current vendor, have the plug pulled on their hosted system by their current vendor, or trust that ByWater was up to the challenge of a one-weekend migration of a 42 member library system. We are very grateful that the TLC placed their trust in our abilities and experience and it is a testament to the skill of our migration department that this transition occurred without incident. We are thrilled to provide the Texas Library Consortium with the levels of support they deserve and look forward to a long a productive relationship with this growing library system.”
About Texas Library Consortium:
Texas Library Consortium serves the residents of Texas via their 42 member libraries. Their collection of nearly 1 million items include books, movies and electronic resources.
About Koha:
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.
Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org/
About ByWater Solutions:
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/
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EBSCO Awards Seven Scholarships for Librarians to Attend 2013 ALA Annual Meeting
LISWire - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 09:55
Seven librarians earned scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Meeting. The scholarships were co-sponsored by ALA and EBSCO to help the librarians continue their professional development. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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EBSCO Awards Seven Scholarships for Librarians to
Attend 2013 ALA Annual Meeting
~ Annual Scholarships Provide Reimbursement for Librarians
to Attend the American Library Association Annual Conference ~
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. / IPSWICH, Mass — April 4, 2013 — In co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), EBSCO has awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, June 27– July 2, 2013. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay on the topic of how attending the conference will contribute to the librarians’ professional development.
The EBSCO ALA Annual Conference Sponsorship is an annual award consisting of $1,000 for actual reimbursed expenses designed to allow librarians to attend the ALA Annual Conference. The scholarship recipients will be honored by EBSCO and ALA representatives during the conference at a breakfast on Sunday, June 30, 2013.
The scholarship winners, including two first time attendees and two Emerging Leaders, are:
• Jannie R. Cobb, Librarian, National Labor College, Silver Spring, Md.
• Nancy Condon, Member Library Services Librarian, Uncle Remus Regional Library System, Madison, Ga.
• Sara Arnold-Garza, Residency Librarian, Albert S. Cook Library, Towson University, Towson, Md.
• Elizabeth Kahn, School Library Media Specialist, Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy, New Orleans, La.
• Caitlin Moen, Catalog Librarian, LAC Group, Metairie, La.
• Hannah Q. Parris, Access Services Librarian, Johnson & Wales University, Denver Campus Library, Denver, Colo.
• April Wallace, Director, Pinson Public Library, Pinson, Ala.
Sara Arnold-Garza from Towson University says the scholarship will help her make the most out of being named an ALA Emerging Leader, “As a member of the 2013 class of ALA Emerging Leaders, I’ll receive leadership training, meet other new professionals who are enthusiastic and engaged, and connect with the opportunities for professional success afforded by ALA.”
Applications were judged by an ALA-designated jury: jury chairman Julius C. Jefferson Jr., information research specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Stacy L. Creel, assistant professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Elizabeth Nelson, knowledge analyst, UOP LLC, Woodstock, Ill.; Elizabeth M. Williams, information literacy librarian, Belk Library, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.; and Courtney L. Young, head librarian and associate professor, Kelly Library, Penn State Greater Allegheny.
EBSCO is dedicated to supporting the professional development of librarians around the world and has a long tradition of co-sponsoring scholarships to ALA conferences, providing funds for conference registration, travel, and expenses.
About ALA
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit professional organization of more than 65,000 librarians, library trustees, and other friends of libraries dedicated to providing and improving library services and promoting the public interest in a free and open information society: www.ala.org.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
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Cheryl Malden
Program Officer
American Library Association
312-280-3247
cmalden@ala.org
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