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    January 31st, 2014LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    North Bethesda, MD, January 31, 2014- LibLime announces the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.6. As with each release of Academic Koha, all features were designed and sponsored by WALDO’s Academic Koha design committees – by librarians for librarians.

    LibLime Academic Koha 5.6 is designed around a new Discovery Layer for the application – written with RESTful API to increase local customization and to facilitate dynamic integration with key third party products and resources of use in academic libraries today. Also included in the release is the ability to merge authority records, an OPAC editor, and mobile device support.

    As with all versions of LibLime Academic Koha, the entire application resides in the Plack environment for enhanced performance. Further, LibLime Academic Koha uses the Solr seach engine; Solr is the popular open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication. It powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.

    To learn how you can implement LibLime Academic Koha 5.6 in your library, email kohainfo@liblime.com.

    About WALDO
    Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) is a membership organization supporting the procurement & administration of electronic information services for libraries since 1982. Supporting over 900 member libraries, WALDO offers consortial discounts for over 5,000 products and services. For more information, please visit http://waldolib.org or contact Robert Karen at 866-576-6051 ext. 1 or rob@waldolib.org. Other advantages of choosing a LibLime solution through the WALDO consortium include volume discounts, standard contracts, consolidated renewals and invoicing and centralized billing. Participation in the LibLime discounts through WALDO is available to all WALDO full, associate and limited members.

    About LibLime - PTFS
    LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.

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    January 29th, 2014LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) –29 January 2014

    Brill has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). The association promotes and supports scholarly publishers that offer reputable open access publications and reliable open access publishing services. View Brill’s membership profile page, here: www.oaspa.org/member-record-brill

    Brill open access publications are made available through Brill Open on the Brill Online Books and Journals platform in all areas Brill publishes in: Humanities, Social Sciences, International and Human Rights Law and Biology.

    In August 2013, Brill Open expanded to include books as well as book chapters. To date, Brill has published around 80 books in open access, several of which as part of ‘OAPEN-NL,’ a project exploring Open Access monograph publishing in the Netherlands. All titles published through Brill Open are available as part of the Brill Open E-Book Collection, and are also included in the subject collections at no extra cost.

    Authors can publish their articles in open access in any of Brill’s 195 hybrid journals. Additionally, Brill’s six fully open access journals are searchable through the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and its open access books through the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) of which Brill is one of the main sponsors.

    In addition, through the Brill/IFLA Open Access Award Brill seeks to reward open access book initiatives that support the academic community in an innovative way. Submissions for 2014 are welcomed.

    For more information on Brill Open and publishing in open access at Brill visit: www.brill.com/brillopen

    For more information on the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) visit: www.oaspa.org

    About Brill
    Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law, among others. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes 200 journals and around 700 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.

    About OASPA
    The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a trade association that was established in 2008 in order to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation. Further details regarding the organisation can be found at www.oaspa.org.

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    January 28th, 2014LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    1/28/2014
    CONTACT:
    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
    sales@bywatersolutions.com

    Philadelphia FIGHT Chooses ByWater Solutions' Koha Support

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the AIDS Library at Philadelphia FIGHT, of Philadelphia, PA. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

    ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Philadelphia FIGHT last year and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them.

    Allie Fraser, Librarian, AIDS Library, spoke of the migration process with ByWater:

    "ByWater Solutions customer and technical support are excellent for this small special collection library and its unique titles. As Collection Management Librarian, I work with volunteers in the AIDS Library to catalog materials that circulate. I found the ByWater team easy to work with re: the migration of materials and borrower records from a much older version of Koha. The system was 'live' on schedule; a webinar helped prepare us for 3.12 implementation. The process overall has been seamless with minimal interruption of service. Module screens for cataloging, circulation, and especially the OPAC are user-friendly. I look forward to future collaboration."

    About Philadelphia FIGHT:
    Philadelphia FIGHT (Field Initiating Group for HIV Trials) is a comprehensive AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy and research on potential treatments and vaccines. For more information about Philadephia FIGHT, please visit: http://fight.org

    About Koha:
    Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha's impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

    Koha's OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org/

    About ByWater Solutions:
    ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/

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    January 24th, 2014LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Louisiana Library Network Selects EBSCO Discovery Service™
    ~ EDS Chosen to Provide More Quality Information for LOUIS users and
    Better Discoverability of LOUIS Resources ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — January 24, 2014 — LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to improve discoverability and help promote LOUIS resources to students and other departments. LOUIS is a partnership with academic libraries, state & private libraries, and museums & archives in the state of Louisiana and combines the collective resources of all members to produce a dynamic library consortium. EDS was chosen because of its ability to pull together LOUIS resources while also delivering a simplified search experience that provides quality results.

    LOUIS members wanted a single search that is similar to a “Google” search for scholarly material. EDS takes LOUIS’s vast collection of electronic resources and brings it together in one place while also offering better discoverability. In a recent poll to library staff and faculty, one LOUIS member said, “Our users were missing a lot of good information from databases that they didn’t know about and EDS put them on track to find more quality information.”

    Feedback from the library staff and faculty has been positive, specifically with regard to the robust features and functionality of EDS. Lisa Stigall, a network analyst with LOUIS, says, “Many of our members have been pleased with the EDS search experience. Popular features include the automatic citation feature, ability to limit searches to a specific discipline and the fact that the results screen is easy to use and manipulate.”

    EBSCO support is in the process of working with LOUIS to customize EDS by modifying the colors, adding custom widgets and using a custom search box to search from the library’s home page. Further customizations will be implemented based on user feedback.

    Looking to the future, LOUIS hopes that EDS will become a good tool for information literacy instruction and also hope to integrate EDS with another resource to create reading lists for students. They also believe the implementation of EDS will be a huge benefit to off-campus students. A LOUIS poll responder said, “Our off-campus students will have easy access to online resources from wherever they have Internet access. They can find what they need easily without the help of a reference librarian, when the library is closed.”

    EBSCO Discovery Service brings together the most comprehensive collection of content—including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection—all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience.

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 500,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    January 24th, 2014LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    EBSCO Information Services Highlights Resources to Help School and Public Libraries Align with State and Provincial Curriculum Standards
    ~ Schools and Public Libraries Will Find Value in Resources Designed to Help Support Curriculum—State Standards and Common Core Values ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — January 24, 2014 — As schools revisit state curriculum standards and more U.S. states adopt standards such as Common Core and as public libraries work to support their local school systems, EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is pulling together information to better serve students, educators and librarians. EBSCO has created a curriculum standards webpage to provide easy access to information about the EBSCO databases that are aligned with state standards and Common Core values.

    Common Core State Standards sets parameters for educators and parents to help make students college- and career-ready. Students are expected to “use technology and digital media strategically and capably.” Common Core also places importance on students’ ability to “employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language use,” and stipulates that “they tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently, and they integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline.”

    EBSCO offers a number of databases that can help teachers and librarians prepare their students to meet state standards and Common Core values including English Language Learner Reference Center™, Literary Reference Center™ / Literary Reference Center Plus™, History Reference Center™, NoveList® Plus, Poetry & Short Story Reference Center™, Points of View Reference Center™, and Science Reference Center™. Database packages for elementary, middle, and high schools are also included. Reference Guides on the EBSCO Support Site demonstrate the ways in which educators can use EBSCO's dedicated interfaces to achieve the curriculum goals described in the Common Core State Standards.

    Since EBSCO databases cover subject areas, the content includes thousands of informational texts to support the shift toward non-fiction reading and analysis in all classrooms including primary and secondary source documents. EBSCO databases include multimedia content, a text-to-speech tool, research guides, and citation help to support differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences and individual education plans (IEPs) as well as information literacy. Lesson plans, training guides and comprehension tests are also included to aid educators. Lexile® Reading Levels allow educators and students to identify texts appropriate to a student’s varying reading abilities and interests. Students and educators are also able to select content by page length to match student reading abilities.

    Since the content in EBSCO databases is curated from a number of popular and academic sources, articles range in text type and level of text complexity to help students build on literacy success. EBSCO’s enhanced metadata, an intuitive interface and superior relevancy ranking combine to guide students toward the best results for their searches.

    In addition to the content found in EBSCO databases, EBSCO also maintains a Curriculum Standards Module within each of these databases to help educators relate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or Canadian province-specific curriculum standards. The module provides browsing of specific benchmarks, many of which have recommended search strings for successful content retrieval. Benchmarks can be easily saved as text files for integration with written lesson plans. Tutorials are also available including seven dedicated to the NoveList readers’ advisory service.

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and nearly 500,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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