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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.

Books that help kids recognize common problems and how to handle them are on sale right now at Parenting Press due to the Seattle publisher's warehouse move.

Besides more than a dozen books in the "you-choose-what-happens-next" format that lets children role-play solutions, you can select from guides to child development, emotions, temperament, abuse prevention, values and so many other important parenting topics.

The BEA 2013 "new print title showcase" catalog features THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI isbn 9780615685434, "KIRKUS INDIE REVIEW" says "this book offers a message of hope."

Libraries and universities can buy the print book from Ingram, and Ingram has the E-book version isbn 0615685439 for purchase and in "new content lending" program.

Tags for this book include: pink-slip serendipity, Cracker country USA folklore, love story, mystic threads, destiny driven—look for THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI in display ad March 3rd "NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW."

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.

Libraries and universities can buy Author Cynthia Lynn, member of Authors Guild new literary fiction— "a novel with a promising message" says "Kirkus Indie Review" about the uncertainty of living in a world filled with changes that come from the consequences of progress—now both in print and E-book version from Ingram.

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.

Over 110,000 e-books Now Available in eBook Academic Collection™

OCLC and Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, have agreed to make all Gale databases and archives fully discoverable through WorldCat Local, and to explore broadening discoverability of Gale collections through other applications available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform.

Michael Panzer, formerly Assistant Editor, has been named the 10th Editor-in-Chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system.

Mr. Panzer, who becomes the first DDC Editor-in-Chief from outside the United States, replaces Joan S. Mitchell, who has retired after serving with distinction in the position since 1993.