For Immediate Release

LAC Legal Staffing is also very pleased to announce the addition of two new team members. Rita Holden, a senior litigation paralegal with expertise in the management of multi-million dollar class action lawsuits, has joined the Denver office as a Senior Recruiter. Her valuable experience will assure clients that they will continue to receive only on-point resumes of qualified candidates. Kendra Palmer, a recent summa cum laude graduate with a degree in English from the University of Colorado, has also joined the team.

LAC Group, along with LAC Legal Staffing Director, Sharon Davis, also say farewell to Lynn Montagne. Lynn, who after serving for five years as the Denver office Client Services Manager, has retired and relocated to Arkansas with her husband.

About LAC Group

LAC Group began in 1986 as Library Associates Companies (LAC) and has grown into a unique and multifaceted professional services firm, providing disciplined and innovative library, legal, information and research staffing, consulting, project management and asset management services.

LAC Group offers the following services:
• Library & Research Staffing
• Information & asset management
• Consulting & project management
• Contract attorneys & paralegals
• Managed Services
• Recruiting

For more information about LAC Legal Staffing and the library and knowledge management services offered by the LAC Group, please visit www.lac-group.com.

For Immediate Release

Strategic Staffing Associates, a premier legal staffing and consulting company based in Denver, Colorado, is pleased to announce that its name has been changed to LAC Legal Staffing. A member of the LAC Group of companies, LAC Legal Staffing has expanded its reach beyond Denver and is now able to provide high caliber attorney, paralegal and legal support candidates for positions in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago. The company is a top provider of experienced contract attorney teams, assisting major law firms and corporations with complex document review and analysis projects on a nationwide basis.

About LAC Group

LAC Group began in 1986 as Library Associates Companies (LAC) and has grown into a
unique and multifaceted professional services firm, providing disciplined and innovative library, legal, information and research staffing, consulting, project management and asset management services.

LAC Group offers the following services:
• Library & Research Staffing
• Information & asset management
• Consulting & project management
• Contract attorneys & paralegals
• Managed Services
• Recruiting

For more information about LAC Legal Staffing and the library and knowledge management
services offered by the LAC Group, please visit www.lac-group.com.

~Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing Allows JMU to Customize the Search Experience and Ensure Quality Article Search with Quick Response Times ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — August 10, 2010 — James Madison University (JMU) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) as its discovery solution—combining the university library catalog with article content into an integrated result list. The deciding factors for JMU were the customization options, powerful article and journal metadata plus the rapid response times available with EDS. The university’s library staff also believes EDS has all the major features of today’s discovery tools: real-time availability, faceted search, and integrated result sets.

EBSCO Discovery Service offers a variety of customizability options that build on the powerful EBSCOhost® platform. James Madison University’s Content Interfaces Coordinator and Associate Professor, Jody Condit Fagan, says the ability to customize the search experience was a key reason JMU chose EBSCO Discovery Service. “We were familiar with the numerous customization options possible with EBSCOhost and we were glad to see that EDS not only preserved the existing customization options but also added additional options.” EDS allows sites to add widgets to the right hand column of the interface and customize the toolbar to allow for the addition of more library resources and functionality. Each institution is also able to choose interface colors and logos to brand the library and its services rather than EDS itself.

Fagan says another reason JMU was attracted to EBSCO Discovery Service is EBSCO’s track record with article search. “While seeing our library catalog data in EDS was new, we had no questions about the depth of article and journal metadata in EBSCOhost databases or EBSCO’s article relevance ranking. EBSCO has this part of the problem solved, and at JMU, we know more article searching is done than book searching.” Delivery speed was also a deciding factor for JMU. “We experienced no trouble with service response times either, which is impressive considering the large amount of data being searched.”

James Madison University also appreciates the approach EBSCO has taken regarding development including regular webinars with librarian beta partners which have allowed librarians to see EBSCO’s commitment to listening to customers firsthand. Fagan says the EDS technical support and product management teams have been responsive and knowledgeable and quickly respond to any questions during the development and implementation process.

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 any 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

~ An Intuitive New Interface Will Better Help Librarians and Avid Readers
Find the Books They Are Looking For ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — August 5, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) along with the creators of readers’ advisory database NoveList® have released a new interface for all NoveList® and NoveList Plus® products. The new interface will include all the characteristics librarians enjoy along with changes that make recommendations easier to obtain, searching more intuitive, and allows quick access to more content than ever. The updated interface will help librarians and their patrons find their next great read.

The redesign incorporated a variety of suggestions from readers’ advisory experts and librarians. Suzanne Guinn, cataloger at the Rogers Public Library in Arkansas says the new interface and the input from librarians was invaluable. “It's much cleaner, much more attractive to look at. I like the enhanced information on the books (plot, tone...) too.”

One of the major new features is the use of Appeal words such as “fast-paced” or “character-driven” which will better allow the user to find different types of books. The new interface also has a strong focus on recommendations. Reading recommendations are available directly from the homepage—which allows for easier access and fewer clicks and they also include a hover-able pop-up window that can be used to narrow down genre choices.

Browseable lists of recommendations for similar books and authors will be shown on the search result pages allowing users to find numerous titles of interest. Finally, each recommendation will feature transparent reasoning from NoveList experts as to why the title is being recommended. With the new interface, enhancements to the popular print functionality make it even easier for librarians to print out reading suggestions for patrons whether they are looking for series, title or author suggestions.

The new interface also features improved searching capabilities. The search box now takes a more prominent spot on the homepage. Search results are also storable and have three display options—list, text and grid. The list display offers a jacket image, summary and additional book information. The text form omits the book jacket and the summary allowing the user to view more results at once. The grid format offers ten search results at a time and presents as a grid with images of each book jacket plus a hover-able pop-up window can be used to find out more information about each book.

A “Teaching with Books” section has been added along with the new interface. This section will be especially helpful to school librarians and public librarians working with homeschoolers and students as it includes content based on grade and common curriculum topics.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, eBooks, 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. 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