Public Libraries

North Bethesda, MD, February 20, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces Fort Scott Public Library has joined the SEKnFind union catalog and is live on the system.

Fort Scott Public Library is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS). SEKLS serves member libraries in over 60 communities in Southeast Kansas and several of those members participate in the SEKnFind union catalog.

The new literary fiction print THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI ISBN 9780615685434 author, Cynthia Lynn, has travel books in Libraries worldwide according to WorldCat.org. Her newest travel series NO MORE HOTELS will be published as E-books. She is writing the first E-book NO MORE HOTELS IN PARIS and the second book NO MORE HOTELS IN ROME, and both E-books are expected to be published in late 2014 on KINDLE and KOBO.

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.

EBSCO Publishing's catalog enrichment resource, NoveList Select™ has a new feature which adds e-resource recommendations that may have been hidden or hard to find directly from catalog records. The full release is below and please let me know if you have any quesitons.

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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.