Academic Libraries

The 2010 Red Clay Writers Conference
The Red Clay Writers Conference educates authors at all levels of expertise.This year's theme is "Don't Ever Give Up." Keynote speakers are Robyn and Justin Spizman.

September 27th, 2010
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

New Book, Practical Open Source Software for Libraries by Nicole C. Engard now Available!

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, is happy to announce that Nicole C. Engard, Director of Open Source Education at ByWater, has written her second book, Practical Open Source Software for Libraries.

September 24, 2010 – LAC Group will present the Illinois Library Association (ILA) Librarian of the Year Award at the ILA Annual Conference awards ceremony, 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, September 29, at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.

Anne Hughes, Director of the Glen Carbon Centennial Library, has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the Librarian of the Year Award. This award, sponsored by LAC Group, recognizes a librarian’s distinguished service and leadership in Illinois libraries.

http://www.zotero.org/blog/zoteros-next-big-step/

We’re delighted to announce Zotero Everywhere, a major new initiative generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Zotero Everywhere is aimed at dramatically increasing the accessibility of Zotero to the widest possible range of users today and in the future. Zotero Everywhere will have two main components: a standalone desktop version of Zotero with full integration into a variety of web browsers and a radically expanded application programming interface (API) to provide web and mobile access to Zotero libraries.

~ Free Digitized Version of European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750

Now Available on EBSCOhost® ~

Leading Subscription Services Company Supports Customers’ Choice in Ordering Content

(Calgary, Alberta) EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing is delighted to announce that Julie Czerneda and Susan MacGregor will be the editors for "Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales", to be publishing October, 2011.

This edition of the award winning series of original Canadian Speculative Fiction comes with a twist and touch of whimsy.

August 30th, 2010
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Fransisco Partners with ByWater Solutions for Koha Support and Implementation

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, CA. has partnered with them for the implementation and support of their official Koha integrated library system installation.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA — August 26, 2010
The American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities E-Book has gone live with Koha. Equinox Software is providing hosting services and performed the initial data migration.

The University Libraries and College Libraries Sections invite proposals for our 2011 ALA Annual Conference Program:

Academic Librarian Lightning Round! Innovative New Roles