Academic Libraries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Duluth, GA —March 18, 2013

The Blanchester and Wornstaff Memorial public libraries have gone live on Evergreen making a total of 8 library systems on the new Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL). More than10,000 new patrons will now be part of the COOL consortium and over 90,000 bibliographic items have been added to the combined catalog. For more information, the COOL combined catalog can be viewed online at http://www.cool-cat.org/.

Healthcare professionals in the UK now have access to the drug resource from the British National Formulary directly from DynaMed drug topics.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 14 March 2013

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, and the Warburg Institute are delighted to announce Alexander Bevilacqua (Princeton) as the second Brill Fellow at the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) at the Warburg Institute in London.

North Bethesda, MD, March 13, 2013- LibLime announces the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.2.

LibLime Academic Koha 5.2 represents the innovation, ideas, and talents of many professional librarians within the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) group with whom LibLime enjoys working and with whom we look forward to a continued professional partnership in years to come.

The arrival of Academic Koha 5.2 includes substantial changes to the application, such as:

• Enhanced search functionality by integrating the Lucene Solr search engine

North Bethesda, MD, March 7, 2013- The Berthoud Community Library District, located in Berthoud, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is now live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog.

EBSCO Discovery Service Users will be able to search University Press Scholarship Online and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography because EBSCO and Oxford University Press extended their partnership. More information is found in the release below. Please let me know if you have any questions.

North Bethesda, MD, February 28, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) in Lagos, Nigeria has chosen LibLime to provide them with support and hosting services for LibLime Koha 4.14. The NNMDA looks forward to taking advantage of the rich functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14, including enhanced circulation policies, the Solr search engine, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, and additional functionality for expired and cancelled holds.

EBSCO Publishing announced the availability of the definitive international database for the history of Science, Technology and Medicine. Details on the database are below. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Farmington Hills, MI and Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2013 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and the Smithsonian Institution today announced a licensing agreement to distribute Smithsonian assets into the library and academic space.

Nursing and Allied health professionals will have access to even more full-text journals with the release of CINAHL® Complete™ from EBSCO Publishing. Below is more information about CINAHL® Complete™. Please let me know if you have any questions.