-
October 30th, 2010LISWire
Flying Solo: Learn about freelancing at Red Clay Writers Conference
What you need to know before embarking on a freelancing career. Ed Gandia, will share his formula for success in freelance writing at The Red Clay Writers ConferenceFreelancing
Ed Gandia, co-author of The Wealthy Freelancer: 12 Secrets to a Great Income and an Enviable Lifestyle (Penguin/Alpha), will be sharing his formula for success in the freelance writing industry at The Red Clay Writers Conference.
In this difficult economy people are beginning to understand, some perhaps for the first time, the need for self-reliance and self-marketing. Advances in technology have already paved the way for telecommuting, but what about the individual who wants to take that extra step towards financial independence and become self-employed? This presentation offers a number of practical strategies to take you from employee (or unemployed!) to self-employed.
Pragmatic as well as optimistic, Ed Gandia understands that the solo path is not for everyone. He tempers his encouragement with caution and gives a list of critical factors to consider when determining which path is right for you. This is a session no writer interested in the lucrative and fulfilling business of freelance writing should miss!
The Red Clay Writing Conference - Saturday, November 6, 2010
Don’t Ever Give Up. The 2010 Red Clay Writing Conference will share that powerful message with attendees, and based on success stories from previous events, this event is certainly the place for both the professional and creative writers to find support, learn great tips for writing, and network with other writers from around the state. “For me, Red Clay has become my "can't miss" annual writers' conference. It's not just how much I learn - and I always learn a lot; it's the opportunity to meet and network with the seminar leaders and fellow authors. If you want to sharpen your craft and keep up with the rapidly evolving writing industry, don't miss it! (J. Steve Miller, President, Legacy Educational Resources, Author of Enjoy Your Money! How to Make It, Save It, Invest It and Give It.)”…
-
October 29th, 2010LISWire
November 6, 2010 Noon until 6PM. Kennesaw, Georgia. The Red Clay Writers Conference will feature a tour of the Bentley Rare Book Room Gallery at Kennesaw State University. Sponsored by Georgia Writers Association.
Prepare to enter the Bentley Rare Book Room Gallery in the Sturgis Library on the campus of Kennesaw State University and step back in time. Priceless literary collections and artifactsinfuse the room with the scent of preserved history. This museum is an original. From its inception, benefactor Fred Bentley and Senior Curator Robert B. Williams have recreated the ambiance of an 18th century librarydown to the homemade varnish on the paneling. The over 15,000 piece collectionis a tribute to the history of the book.
Here, old and new reside in harmony. Recent additions to the Gallery have brought the collection intothe space age. In 2007, Apollo 16 astronaut, General Charles Duke donated artifacts from his 1972 moon landing to the Bentley Rare Book Collection. Duke presented the University with his lunar rover map, and lunar modulechecklist. To add perspective to the library’s vast reach, the collection also contains a 1641 Galileo text on the solar system.
The greatest treasure of the Bentley Rare Book Gallery is the accessibility of the collection. Unlike most museum-quality rare book rooms, Bentley is a tactile experience. The books are preserved in a temperature and humidity controlled room,but the environment is not hermetically sealed. Under the direction of Curator Rita Impey-Imes, visitors are encouraged to handle these venerable treasures.Donned with white gloves, gallery visitors interact with history by touching books hundreds of years old, including a priceless 1542 Chaucer and a history of England and Scotland from the days of Shakespeare. Handling these relics provides one with the heady experience of reaching back in time.
As part of the Red Clay Writers Conference, The Bentley Rare Book Gallery will open its vaults to share with Georgiawriters the riches of this room. Curator, Rita Impey-Imes will share selected stories about the collection and introduce Red Clay participants to these rare artifacts.
You can sign upfor the Red Clay Writers Conference and take part in all the writing conferences available on Saturday, November 6, 2010 in the Carmichael Student Center on the campus of Kennesaw State University. For more information visit: www.georgiawriters.org.
-
October 28th, 2010LISWire
~ Third Series from American Antiquarian Society Digital Archive Collection Now Available via EBSCOhost® ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — October 28, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing has released the third of five series from American Antiquarian Society (AAS) with American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3. The series is part of a collection that provides digital access to what is by far the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 provides more than 1,800 titles dating from 1838-1852. The themes in this third series reveal a rapidly growing young nation where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities. The holdings, consisting of more than 1.5 million pages, are expansive, and many titles, both prominent and unique, can be found. The broad range of geography as well as a diversity of languages (French, German, and Welsh) in the collection reflects the rapid westward expansion that characterizes the time period of this collection. Subject strengths include, but are not limited to:
• Agriculture
• American Life
• Business and Trades
• Children’s Literature
• Education
• Government and Politics
• Leisure and Hobbies
• Mathematics
• Music
• Pharmacy
• Religion
• Satire
• Science and Technology
• Theology
• Women’s Fashion & Other Women’s LiteratureAccording to Thomas Knoles, Marcus A. McCorison Librarian at the American Antiquarian Society, "The release of AAS Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 by EBSCO publishing is being awaited anxiously by researchers. I am certain that it will quickly have a profound impact on scholarship.”
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodical Collection: Series 3 is available through the state-of-the art EBSCOhost® Content Viewer , specifically designed to meet the needs of scholars and researchers by enabling them to navigate historical content in new ways. The new interface was designed to allow researchers to navigate historical content in a manner that is fast, natural and preserves the serendipity involved in doing historical research. EBSCOhost Content Viewer replicates the experience of browsing and reading original archival material while also allowing users to explore, manipulate, collect, take notes, and export content.
EBSCO partnered with the American Antiquarian Society, one of the leading independent research libraries in the nation, in June 2008 to create the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 is third of the five series collection that includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals never before available outside the walls of the American Antiquarian Society, the premier research library documenting the life of America’s people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. The collection, divided into five series based on time period, will total more than 6,500 periodicals estimated at more than 9 million pages.
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, 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.
###
For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com -
October 28th, 2010LISWire
Urban Librarians Unite
www.savenyclibraries.org
savenyclibraries@gmail.comFor Immediate Release
October 26, 2010Media Contacts: Aliqae Geraci 646.620.0302 and Lauren Comito 646.662.6209
Save NYC Libraries Postcard Campaign and Urban Librarians Unite Announce
Halloween Zombie Walk to Save NYC Public Libraries
October 31, 2010
11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Brooklyn, New York--October 2010 --Urban Librarians Unite announce a Halloween Zombie Walk in support of New York City's public libraries, to be held October 31, 2010, beginning at Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn and continuing over the Brooklyn Bridge to commence at City Hall, New York, New York, USA. Official website: www.savenyclibraries.org
The Halloween Zombie Walk brings library-loving New Yorkers together for a day of public theater to draw public attention to the mid-year budget cuts faced by New York City's public libraries. What does any of this have to do with zombies? Well, without libraries there are simply no brains, and zombies need to eat brains to live. With libraries across the city closed on weekends there is a desperate food shortage. So New York City’s zombie librarians will be walking across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall this Halloween to protest the drastic cuts to their food supply. These zombies are starving and without the support of the public library their future appears grim.
New York City's three library systems serve 8 million residents from a combined 212 locations, numbering over 43 million visits in FY'09. Since the economic crisis began, library use has been at an all-time high, with many New Yorkers depending on their local library for access to the information, resources, and programs necessary to conduct job searches, complete their education, navigate the Internet, and access public services.
Mayor Bloomberg’s projected mid-year budget adjustment will cut funding for libraries by $16.5 million - 5.4% across the board. This comes on the heels of a devastating August reduction of $30 million that decimated weekend library service. Three years of brutal cuts during the biggest economic crisis in a generation have reduced public library funding by a shocking $74.5 million since 2008, or 20%. Additional cuts will result in further service reductions and layoffs, right before the holiday season. Unless Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council maintain funding, libraries' ability to provide New Yorkers with job search help, afterschool tutoring, computer access and instruction, English classes, and research assistance will be sharply reduced by December 2010.
Dress in your bookish zombie best and march/shamble your way to City Hall to support your local library and feed your brain.
For more information on the Halloween Zombie Walk, please contact savenyclibraries@gmail.com
### -
October 26th, 2010LISWire
~ Newest University in Turkey Opts for EBSCO Discovery Service™ to Lead Students in a New Direction for Search and Discovery ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — October 26, 2010 — Aksaray University in Turkey has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. The University, founded in 2006, refers to itself as the New Face of Awareness and strives to have a new vision for education. Adding EDS presents the library’s resources via a single search box and ties into the university’s vision to be innovative and provide students with the best information in an easy-to-use format.
Aksaray University has implemented the Complete Discovery Solution™ from EBSCO which includes not only EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost Integrated Search™ but also EBSCO A-to-Z® and LinkSource®. These four separate elements can work together in what is referred to as the Complete Discovery Solution adding access to resources that are unavailable through discovery services plus an A to Z listing service and a link resolver to discovery.
Aksaray University Rector Professor Necdet Saglam says, “We are a new university established in 2006, however, our innovative vision requires dedicating high level technological tools providing the university’s e-resources to users at a maximum level. We believe that EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost Integrated Search, LinkSource and EBSCO A-to-Z combined with having our OPAC available through EDS are the best options for the young and dynamic standing of our institution and our rapidly developing university.”
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 100 million newspaper articles, 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.
###
For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com