ROCHESTER, N.Y., MARCH 24, 2009 – Housed within Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) Cary Graphic Arts Collection is the Bernard C. Middleton Collection, one of the finest resources in the world for the study of bookbinding history and practice.

And as ironic as it may seem, even a collection of books about bookbinding can find a place to call home in the online world. Kirtas and RIT today announced that RIT’s famed Middleton Collection is available on Kirtasbooks.com, joining the growing number of content partners providing collections and titles to the site.

Using existing information from the Cary Collection’s catalog records, Kirtas is able to offer access to the collection through its own retail site, www.kirtasbooks.com, as well as through the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press Web site, www.carypress.rit.edu. What makes this initiative unique is that the books can be offered for sale at cost-conscious prices before they are ever digitized, so there is no up-front printing, production or storage cost.

“We are delighted to participate in this ground-breaking venture with Kirtas,” said David Pankow, Cary Collection curator. “Imaging and innovation are the hallmarks of RIT and the Rochester community and our partnership with Kirtas is another example of that spirit.”

Kirtas currently has 12 partnerships with universities and public libraries to make special collections available for sale online. Virtually any library with a modern records database can participate in the Digitize on Demand (DOD) program. Distribution rights are non-exclusive so the books can also be made available through other distribution channels at a library’s request.

“We’re thrilled to have RIT on board as a partner in this initiative,” Kirtas Founder and CEO Lotfi Belkhir said. “Our business is built around providing high-quality images, and the historic role RIT has played in imaging technology is clearly significant to us. We’ve had a collaborative relationship with RIT on various projects in the past, and I’m glad we’ve been able to build upon it.”

About Kirtas Technologies
Kirtas Technologies has pioneered and perfected the technology used today in quality, high-speed, nondestructive mass book digitization. A proven workflow ensuring superior image quality, advanced search capabilities, unique archiving technology, and extensive metadata enabling multiple output options that stand the test of time are what set us apart and keep Kirtas at the forefront of the digital revolution. Learn more at www.kirtas.com

About Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership in computing, engineering, imaging technology, and fine and applied arts, in addition to unparalleled support services for students with hearing loss. Nearly 16,500 full- and part-time students are enrolled in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs at RIT, and its cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.

For two decades, U.S. News & World Report has ranked RIT among the nation’s leading comprehensive universities. RIT is featured in The Princeton Review’s 2009 edition of The Best 368 Colleges and in Barron’s Best Buys in Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education recognizes RIT as a “Great College to Work For.”

COLUMBUS, OH - March 30, 2009 - LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) have announced that Warren County Community College (WCCC) in New Jersey has selected Koha ZOOM for their next integrated library system (ILS).

The library has selected LibLime's fully-managed Koha ZOOM Hosted package. In this model, the system is installed, operated and maintained at one of LibLime's carrier-class data centers. LibLime will provide the library with installation, data migration, systems administration, ongoing maintenance, software development and staff training. Joining the WALDO consortium will enable Warren County Community College to take advantage of the discounts available to WALDO members for LibLime services.

Why choose Koha?

"WCCC library wishes to be in the forefront of technology innovation in the information sciences to better service our students and faculty," explains David Orenstein, Library Director at WCCC.

"Migrating to Koha makes economic sense, improves access to our collections and allows us to be the first College in the state to move to the open-source platform," he adds.

David has this to say to other directors considering a move to Koha:

"Koha is here, it is tested and has shown itself to be a valuable research tool. Open source is the next step in ILS evolution and the community of libraries moving to Koha shows that it has an important and growing place at the table."

About Warren County Community College (WCCC)

WCCC has the distinction of being one of the fastest growing community colleges in the country. The college is fully accredited through Middle-states, has an NLNAC accredited nursing program, as well as, academic (degree and certification) and continuing education curriculums which support the employment and intellectual growth of the community.

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 the WALDO Website located at http://www.waldolib.org or contact Robert Karen at (800) 326-6495 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 Koha

Since it was first put into production in early 2000, Koha has enabled new realities of open access, affordability, and free innovation for hundreds of small and medium-sized libraries around the world. Koha has lived up to its name, which means ‘Gift’ in the Maori language of New Zealand. From the outset, many libraries understood the power of this gift. They downloaded it, they installed it, they changed it and they contributed their solutions back to the library community.

Several companies around the world support Koha, providing libraries with a full array of services including installation, migration assistance, data integrity testing, staff training, software maintenance, support and customization.

About LibLime

LibLime is the global leader in open-source solutions for libraries, with a mission to make open source accessible to libraries. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, LibLime 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. LibLime then facilitates implementation of open source in libraries by providing outstanding development, customization, support and training solutions--solutions tailored to each library's needs. For more information, see http://liblime.com.

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Emerald’s approach to publishing embraces the notion that ‘diversity brings strength in knowledge ecology’ and encourages the ‘export’ of ideas into the developing world.

In her introduction to the special issue, Maria Aluchna Comments: “The issue offers a wide range of topics presenting aspects of current challenges of both topic of CSR and corporate governance. I truly recommend all the articles published in this special issue”.

The issue consists of two sections, the first discusses the status and development of CSR and the second focuses on corporate governance.

Social Responsibility Journal is edited by Professor David Crowther of De Montfort University, who comments: “A study of transitional economies is important in the present time, as they grasp with issues concerning their adaptation to a global perspective on business. This, of course, involves the implementation of governance and CSR programmes. SRJ always focuses upon current issues and debates and in this issue the progress of firms in transitional economies is considered from a variety of perspectives both by experts from within those economies and by experts from outside. The issue is guest edited by Maria Aluchna, Warsaw School of Economics, who has a particular expertise in this area.”

Among the articles in the Special Issue Maria Aluchna is the author of “Implementation of best practice code: Practical implications from the Warsaw Stock Exchange”. Nicholas J.F. Ragadoo has written “CSR as a tool to fight against poverty: The case of Mauritius”. “Corporate governance and law- role of independent directors: theory and practice in India” by Iti Bose and “Status and direction of corporate social responsibility in Indian Perspective: an exploratory study” by Sudhir Chandra Das.

Social Responsibility Journal presents ‘methodological and substantive debates in the area of social responsibility’. Submissions to the journal are accepted from any part of the world with the exception that it addresses one or more of the journals objectives.

Emerald will be providing free access to the journal between 24/03/2009 – 30/04/2009, this will be available viawww.emeraldinsight.com/srj.htm. To gain access users must login with the username: srjaccess and the password: emerald

For further information contact Andrew Smith on asmith@emeraldinsight.com

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