Academic Libraries

The release below details information about how evidence-based medicine is expanding to diagnosis decision-making through the integration of DynaMed and Isabel.

North Bethesda, MD, February 14, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) announce the Institute of Audio Research (IAR) has gone live on LibLime Koha.

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Duluth, GA —February 14, 2013

Wayne County Public Library System has gone live on Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal consortium. Equinox Software oversaw both data migration and staff training. ESI will also continue to provide on-going system administration and technical support for the entire consortium.

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

Semantico, suppliers of digital publishing solutions to the scholarly and professional market, recently migrated Brill's Linguistic Bibliography Online from a stand alone site to the existing Brill bibliography site: http://bibliographies.brillonline.com.

OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Lynne Bowker of the University of Ottawa, Kyung-Sun Kim of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Sei-Ching Joanna Sin of Nanyang Technological University and Sanghee Oh of Florida State University. The awards were presented January 24 at the ALISE 2013 Annual Conference Awards Reception in Seattle, Washington.

North Bethesda, MD, February 6, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Millennia Atlantic University (MAU), located in Doral, Florida, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.14.

The University Library will take advantage of the Solr search engine in 4.14, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, and additional functionality for expired and cancelled holds. As with all versions of LibLime Koha since 4.8, the entire application resides in the Plack environment for enhanced performance.

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Below is a release on two new e-book subscription collections from EBSCO: EngineeringCore and ITCore. They each include thousands of e-book titles about various engineering and IT disciplines to serve the learning and research needs of engineers and technology professionals.

OCLC and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will enrich WorldCat and FamilySearch services with data from both organizations to provide users with more resources for improved genealogy research.

North Bethesda, MD, January 31, 2013- The Norwood Public Library, located in Norwood, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is scheduled to go live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog.

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Tue, 01/22/2013 - 12:06

Contact: Jazzy Wright [4]
LITA , Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP), Washington Office (wo)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the American Library Association (ALA) recognized five libraries for offering cutting-edge technologies in library services [5], honoring programs in Boston, New York, Tucson, Ariz., Orlando, Fla. and Le Roy, N.Y.