~ Evidence-based Information for Food Industry Professionals ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 22, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) extends its evidence-based information solutions to the food industry with the release of Food Industry Watch™. This new resource is a robust executive decision support tool providing the most-current, objective information available on all topics affecting the food industry.

Food Industry Watch is designed specifically to support the information needs of corporate executives in the hospitality, food service and food production industries. The new resource offers access to more than 200 evidence-based, industry-related reports covering topics such as:

• compliance & regulation
• food availability
• food production
• food safety & quality
• food science & technology
• food service, management
• marketing and specialty foods

Food Industry Watch has adapted EBSCO’s core evidence-based methodology to areas of interest to corporate executives. The evidence-based approach identifies, selects and systematically evaluates pertinent information and creates a synthesis of the best available evidence. EBSCO’s experience with evidence-based content includes Sustainability Watch™ and Corporate Learning Watch™ as well as the point-of-care resources it provides to hospitals and other medical institutions including the clinical decision support resource DynaMed™.

Food Industry Watch may be integrated into corporate portals and Intranets. The EBSCOhost® Integration Toolkit allows EBSCO’s content to be incorporated into an organization’s workflow—providing seamless access to premium content.

Food Industry Watch joins a collection of food industry databases available through EBSCO including Food Science Source™ and FSTA – Food Science & Technology Abstracts™.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator serving the content needs of corporations, associations and organizations of all types. EBSCO offers a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases providing content from tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers. Databases provide information for areas ranging from research & development and corporate learning to departmental and industry-specific topics. EBSCO’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Business Source® Corporate, Business Book Summaries™, Learning Centers™, Business Basics™, Academic Search® R&D, Nonprofit Organization Reference Center™, and Health Library™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world, and may be integrated into corporate intranets, portals and learning management systems. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com.

EBSCO Publishing 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
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 20, 2010 — In the coming year, Northeastern University will explore the impact of a one-stop “discovery” system on user research and has chosen to work with the EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS)—a unified, customized index of available information resources. The Library was ready to upgrade to a next generation catalog at the time when discovery services were being introduced and one of the main reasons Northeastern chose EBSCO Discovery Service was the familiarity of the EBSCOhost® platform. By leveraging this platform, EDS offers a single interface for discovery of a library’s entire collection and the powerful features to heighten the research experience, providing everything the researcher needs in one place.

Northeastern University Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources, Amira Aaron, says the timing was just right for the university. “We were not satisfied with the federated search experience and wanted to provide a more streamlined way for our community to discover information in multiple resources, including our local repositories and open access content. Northeastern students know the EBSCOhost platform and by introducing EDS we are able to provide additional content and include our catalog, all within a familiar environment which means an easy transition for students and staff.”

Northeastern will work with EBSCO in the next several months to add its Institutional Repository and local digitized content into EDS, providing even more content from the single search interface—creating a truly custom collection. The ability to pull these additional resources into the EBSCOhost platform was another reason for choosing EBSCO Discovery Service. Aaron says, “We want to provide our students with as much content as possible from our discovery service and eliminate multiple silos of information, while improving access to previously underused resources. We also look forward to working with EBSCO and our counterparts at other institutions on further enhancements to the service.”

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

The Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library’s collection.

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world’s foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 Magazines & Journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 20,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source®, CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, Inspec®, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index™, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than and other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com.

EBSCO Publishing 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
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

Record Numbers of New and Existing Customers Select or Expand ITG Library Systems

Norcross, Ga. – July 19, 2010. The Integrated Technology Group (ITG), a leading developer and provider of library automation technologies across North America, continued to grow significantly during the second quarter of 2010, with a record number of installations performed during this period. The company’s revenue and profits for the first half of the year were the highest in the company's history as ITG sustains the strong double digit growth it has enjoyed every year since its founding. This consistent growth has been fueled by strong sales of existing products and the continued introduction of innovations to the marketplace. The past three months have included ITG’s first installation of Dialoc ID DiaMond Hybrid EM/RFID security gates; the introduction of the plug and play SmartReader™ RFID staff circulation station; and demonstrations of the company’s suite of ITGConnected™ cross-product communication, reporting and configuration tools.

The U.S.-based company has also expanded its reach in both northern and southern directions. ITG was awarded a contract for XpressCheck™ self-service systems at Vancouver Island Regional Library in Canada while establishing partnerships with Latin American companies in several countries. The first such relationship, with MultiSystems of Brazil, has resulted in the first RFID installation in South America's largest country, to be implemented during the third quarter of 2010.

ITG performed its first installations of Dialoc ID DiaMond hybrid EM/RFID security gates in District of Columbia Public Library branches during the quarter. Dialoc ID, based in the Netherlands, has been a world leader in the electronic article surveillance (EAS) field since 1977, and their hybrid gates offer many advantages to large libraries and consortia that share books or want to migrate to RFID over time.

Together with parent company Vernon Library Supplies, ITG has negotiated the exclusive U.S. rights to Intelletto Technology Inc.’s Plug-and-Play SmartReader™ SR10 RFID circulation station. The SR10, together with ITG’s own patented DirectReader™ offers American libraries the only IP rights-protected RFID staff operated check-out and check in functionality that allows direct (no-SIP) interface with all ILS circulation modules. It works with all RFID tags and systems offered currently in North America.

During the quarter, ITG also introduced its group of reporting, configuration and communications systems as ITGConnected™. Though the company’s various products have always had robust tools included as standard features, their ability to communicate with each other across a network gives libraries real power to refine, configure, and to better serve patrons. ITGXpressCheck™ patron self-service units, DiscXpress II™ secure AV storage and dispensing systems, ITG FullSort™ and ShortSort™ AMH systems, security systems running ITGExitWatch™ software—all work together to keep library operations running smoothly.

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About the Integrated Technology Group
The Integrated Technology Group (www.integratedtek.com) develops, markets, and supports library automation technologies that empower librarians to make operations more efficient and better serve their patrons. ITG's products include patron self-checkout, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Automated Materials Handling (AMH) systems, library materials security, public computer reservation, and print management. ITG, a division of Vernon Library Supplies, Inc., is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia.

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The Luther Rice Seminary and University Partners with ByWater Solutions for Koha Support and Hosting

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Luther Rice Seminary and University, of Lithonia, GA. has partnered with them for the hosting and support of their official Koha integrated library system installation.

The Library switched to Koha from their Winnebago Spectrum system in 2009.

Hal Haller, Librarian at LRU's Bertha Smith Library, and Assistant Professor of Bible and Theology, stated that the "affordability and mechanisms for improvement" that Koha offered were key factors in deciding to switch to an open source product.

When asked what made LRU decide to partner with ByWater for their support and hosting needs, he stated that the key factors were "the excellent feedback we received from the references we contacted, as well as quick response times to all requests for information and implementation."

"We are very excited to have the opportunity to partner with LRU" stated Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater Solutions. He continued; "The transition from their self hosted environment over to our servers was quick and painless, and lifted the burden of server maintenance from the library and technology staff. We are thrilled that we are able to accommodate their needs."

The Bertha Smith Library's online Koha catalog can be viewed here: http://koha.lru.edu

About the Luther Rice Seminary and University:
Be trained and equipped to have a real IMPACT on the world! Join thousands of men and women around the world who have found the degree programs at Luther Rice to be a convenient, affordable, and flexible way to earn a degree. There are Luther Rice students in 18 foreign countries and 42 states currently working on a degree. We know distance learning-- we’ve been successfully doing it for over 45 years. You can trust our time-honored tradition of academic excellence and truly personal service. Luther Rice has one of the lowest tuition rates of any private university or seminary in the country. We are convenient; degrees can be achieved completely online. If you prefer, you can attend classes on our beautiful campus in Metro Atlanta during the day, evenings, on Saturday, or in one-week intensives. Come join our family-- that’s Luther Rice! For more information, please visit www.lru.edu

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 www.koha-community.org

About ByWater Solutions:
With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, support options and development of enterprise class open-source library systems. Offering a 24/7 technical helpline, ByWater Solutions’ clients have the support system they need to make their software work for them. ByWater Solutions pledges to share 100% of all developed code to the Koha community for the strengthening and advancement of the Koha ILS. For more information about ByWater Solutions, please visit: www.bywatersolutions.com