Academic Libraries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
13 January 2010

Media Contact: Terri Maguire Mertz, Amigos Library Services
972.340.2855
mertz@amigos.org
www.amigos.org

Amigos Library Services Offers Online CONTENTdm Conference

DALLAS, TX, January 13 – Amigos Library Services will present “CONTENTdm: an Amigos Online Conference” on February 19. The one day conference will include sessions focused on the practical side of CONTENTdm, as well as how to increase use of CONTENTdm collections.

January 13th, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Brendan Gallagher
(888) 900-8944
info@bywatersolutions.com

ByWater Solutions and BibLibre Announce Partnership to Provide Services for Koha Users in the U.S.

ByWater Solutions and BibLibre are pleased to announce a partnership that will help meet the demands of the rapidly-growing Koha community by providing crucial support for development and migration services. ByWater Solutions’ customers will now have access to the development expertise of some of the talented individuals who helped bring us the Koha ILS ten years ago.

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Norcross, GA — January 12, 2010
SCLENDS, the South Carolina library resource sharing network, welcomes the final three members in their group of pilot libraries. Anderson County, Fairfield, and Florence public library systems have gone live with Evergreen, the consortial, open-source library automation software.
Equinox Software, Inc., the development and support company established by the original Evergreen developers, provided support for the migrations and will now provide hosting services for the consortium as well as 24/7 technical support.

Equinox Software Welcomes Rob Herrmann and Sally Fortin to our Staff
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA —January 11, 2010
Equinox Software, Inc., the support and development company for Evergreen open-source library software welcomes Rob Herrmann and Sally Fortin to our staff. Herrmann will serve as Sales Executive and Fortin will be our Educational Services Manager.

January 6, 2010
Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program

Indiana University Press, founded in 1950 and one of the leading
university presses in the country, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and
research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, announced an
agreement today to make leading journals from the Press available worldwide
as part of the Current Scholarship Program, a new collaborative initiative
announced on August 13, 2009.
By joining the Program, current and historical content from 28 Indiana

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2010

Media contact: Larry Godwin
Phone: 1-800-843-8482, ext. 2847
Email: godwin@amigos.org

Amigos Partners with Fearless Future to Offer Online Library Marketing Course

Ahmedabad, Thursday, December 31, 2009- LIBRARIAN® - Asia’s first Arabic Version of Library Management Software System “LIBRARIAN” was commissioned at American Culture Centre, Alexandria, Egypt by CR2 Technologies Ltd., Ahmedabad with their strategic partner ACML, Alexandria, Egypt.

Authors publishing with Sciyo in 2010 will be the first in academic publishing to receive royalties based on the number of downloads of their publication. For every 10 downloads, 0.2 euro will be accredited to author’s account on an annual basis. The aim of the model is to reward high quality academic work, deemed most useful by the research community.

COLUMBUS, OH - December 18, 2009 - LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, announced today that The Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut, will migrate to LibLime Enterprise Koha for their next integrated library system.

The Library's system will be installed, operated and maintained at one of LibLime's carrier-class data centers and distributed via Software as a Service on LibLime's Cloud Computing platform.

December 14, 2009 – Contra Costa County, CA – Contra Costa County
Library has been awarded a $60,000 Bay Area Library and Information Systems
(BALIS) Innovation grant to create a mobile platform that will push new and
existing library content and services -- literally -- into the hands of
cell phone users. The “Snap & Go” project will allow Contra Costa
County residents with mobile phones and a library card to access library
materials, enhanced content, and manage their accounts without having to
visit a library building or gain access to a computer.