Press Release

5/23/2013
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Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law Choose ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law are now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

~ Customers will Benefit from More Tightly Integrated Product and Service Offerings ~

Birmingham, Ala. — May 22, 2013 — EBSCO Industries, Inc. announces the EBSCO Information Services (EIS) and EBSCO Publishing (EP) businesses will merge on July 1, 2013 and will operate as a single business under the name EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Tim Collins, a 26-year EBSCO veteran and previously President of EBSCO Publishing, will serve as President of the combined entity.

Skip Prichard, an experienced senior executive in the information services market, has been named the next OCLC President and CEO.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 17 May 2013

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has signed an agreement with the National Translation Centre of Tunisia in Tunis for the Arabic translation of the second edition of the renowned Encyclopaedia of Islam. The agreement was ratified by Tunisia’s Minister of Culture, Dr. Mehdi Mabrouk.

North Bethesda, MD, May 16, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) in Lagos, Nigeria is now live on LibLime Koha 4.14.

Statistical data from Data-Planet is now available through EBSCO Discovery Service following an agreement between EBSCO and Data-Planet. The release can also be found at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Data-Planet/EDS/prweb10739128.htm.

DANVERS, Mass

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and Open Access (OA) solutions, has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which offers a forum for bringing together the entire Open Access community.

NASIG Selects Shannon Regan for 2013 Horizon Award
~ EBSCO-Sponsored Award Recognizes a Promising New Information Professional ~

Twenty-seven libraries throughout Australia and New Zealand are part of the more than 2,500 libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions around the world using OCLC’s CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software to manage their digital collections and make them available on the Web. Of the 27 libraries, 25 are part of the CONTENTdm software “quick start” program, which makes each Te Puna member, Amlib, VDX or OCLC WorldShare Management Services user eligible for its own CONTENTdm license hosted in the OCLC Sydney Data Center at no additional cost.

North Bethesda, MD, May 9, 2013- The Haxtun Public Library, located in Haxtun, Colorado, has joined the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and is scheduled to go live on the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog.