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Birmingham, Ala. –- June 6, 2012 – In co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), EBSCO awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim June 21-26, 2012. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to explain how attending the ALA Annual Conference will contribute to their professional development.

Farmington Hills, Mich., May 31, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced Classroom in Context (CLiC), a curriculum-based family of resources designed to supplement textbooks and enhance learning with authoritative, media-rich content from Gale’s award-winning In Context product suite.

~EBSCO SmartLinks+™ extends the unrivaled power of EBSCOhost® SmartLinks™ to libraries’ e-packages and e-journals~

Fifteen more libraries have announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services, the first cooperative, Webscale library management services that streamline cataloging, acquisitions, circulation, license management and workflows, and offer a next-generation discovery tool for library users. This brings the number of libraries worldwide committed to using WorldShare Management Services to 210.

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Duluth, GA —May 23, 2012

Equinox Software is celebrating its 5th anniversary as a leader in open source solutions for libraries.

Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software began supporting the 270 libraries of the Georgia Public Library Service

under the PINES program and today supports over 500 Evergreen and 12 Koha libraries across the United States and Canada

Equinox Software President Brad LaJeunesse is 2012 Recipient of the
F. William Summers Outstanding Alumni Award

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Duluth, GA —May 22, 2012

Equinox Software President Brad LaJeunesse has been selected by The University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science as the 2012 recipient of the F. William Summers Outstanding Alumni Award.

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Duluth, GA —May 14, 2012

Equinox Software is proud to announce a sponsorship for King County Library System Foundation’s annual Literary Lions Gala.

This year’s event welcomed over 500 guests and raised $208,000 to support literacy and lifelong learning programs. Bestselling author Lee Child served as key note speaker for the evening which also included a "State of the Library" report by Bill Ptacek and 11 sold out author salons.

Dallas, TX — Amigos Library Services announces that its members have voted to approve the merger of Amigos and the St. Louis-based Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC). The results of the vote were announced during the organization’s annual Amigos Member Business Meeting held May 9. The Amigos member vote follows a similar vote taken by MLNC members last month and paves the way for actions that will culminate in the formal uniting of the two organizations July 1, 2012.

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Duluth, GA —May 10, 2012

Amigos Library Services will present a one day online conference “Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies” on Friday, June 8. The conference will cover a variety of topics, including developing a mobile website for your library, building a simple mobile-optimized web app, as well as practical usability checklists for mobile websites.