~ Metadata for Federal Publications Included in Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service™ ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — November 16, 2010 — Metadata from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will soon be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. EDS Customers will be able to search for federal records from the Government Printing Office’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.

The U.S Government Printing Office provides publishing & dissemination services for the official & authentic government publications to Congress, federal agencies, federal depository libraries, & the American public. GPO resources that will be available through EDS include federal publications from the following catalogues:

• Congressional Serial Set Catalog
• Congressional Publications
• GPO Access Publications
• Internet Publications
• Periodicals
• Serials

The U.S Government Printing Office joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content, such as: the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect and for mutual customers Web of Science & H.W. Wilson—a growing list of information sources available to EBSCO Discovery Service users.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin.

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 EDS Base Index 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 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.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

~ New Agreement Indexes Scholarly Publications from ingentaconnect for EBSCO Discovery Service™ Users ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — November 9, 2010 — A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and ingentaconnect further expands the resources discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and brings added value to its users. The agreement allows selected scholarly journals from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EDS–EBSCO’s robust and comprehensive discovery service.

Resources from ingentaconnect to be added to the EDS Base Index include more than 5,200 scholarly academic journals from over 200 publishers. The addition of these resources marks a trend of rapidly growing content available to EDS users. ingentaconnect joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content, such as: the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Web of Science (for mutual customers), H.W. Wilson (for mutual customers), Oxford University Press, ABC-CLIO and American Psychological Association—a growing list of information sources available to EBSCO Discovery Service users.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin.

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 EDS Base Index 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 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.

About ingentaconnect
ingentaconnect, from Publishing Technology, is a comprehensive, cost-effective e-publishing solutions package for everyone. Publishing Technology is the largest supplier of technology and related services for the publishing industry. Working with eight of the ten largest publishers in the world, we help information providers meet their evolving and wide-ranging publishing needs.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
EBSCO Publishing
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

Bloomfield, Conn. – The San Mateo, Calif. based Peninsula Library System, which serves all the
public and community college libraries in San Mateo County, is benefitting from mk Sorting Systems
in providing one of the most technologically advanced service solutions to busy on-the-go library
patrons, resulting in 24-hour access.
Equipment arrived in Millbrae last week and will be operational by the end of the year at the BART
transit station, located at 200 North Rollins Road. The mk LibDispenserTM lets library patrons enjoy
the convenience of reserving, borrowing, renewing and returning library materials any time. Two
browsing stations access a collection of up to 876 items with easy future expansion options. The
result is a fully-automated service - a stand alone branch - integrated into the member library’s
management software (ILS) via SIP2 communication.
Aided by California State Library LSTA grant funding, the mk LibDispenser™ provides additional
library access to over 746,000 residents of San Mateo County who use the mass transit system in
the area. San Mateo County’s BART station is a major end node located in between San Jose and
San Francisco and also one of the busiest transit centers in Northern California.
“Residents of San Mateo County have often requested - through surveys, focus groups, and staff
communications - more accessible services, longer access hours, and more convenient pick-up and
drop-off locations for library materials,” states Wayne Walker, Operations Manager for the CALIFA
Group. “The interest of BART in partnering with the members of the Peninsula Library System to
install a LibDispenserTM in its station is an opportunity to provide such service elements to transit
riders,” explained Walker.
“We developed the mk LibDispenserTM with the goal of bringing library services to patrons in unique
settings outside the traditional library environment,” says Markus Flory, President of mk Sorting“We are very excited that the BART station in Millbrae is an ideal location to benefit transit
riders with on-the-go library service.”
— MORE —
About mk Sorting Systems
mk Sorting Systems, a subsidiary of mk Technology Group, develops and installs user-friendly self
service, sorting and RFID systems and book dispensing solutions for libraries. mk offers individual,
customized automation solutions designed to meet each library’s specific needs.
For sales and marketing information, contact Kristin Vogel, Sales and Business Development
Consultant at 1-860-760-0438 or by e-mail at kristin.vogel@mk-sorting-systems.com. Visit mk
Sorting Systems on the Web at www.mk-sorting-systems.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Thomas Gladysz
Tel. 415.695.9477
Email. thomasg@pandorasbox.com

A once controversial bestseller which inspired a silent film starring screen legend Louise Brooks will be celebrated at the San Francisco Public Library on November 14th. This special event on what would have been the actress’ 104th birthday takes place in the 250 seat Koret Auditorium of the main branch of the SFPL.

The 1929 Louise Brooks film, Diary of a Lost Girl, is based on a bestselling book first published in Germany in 1905. Though little known today, the book was a sensation at the beginning of the 20th century. Controversy, spirited debate, and even lawsuits followed its publication. By the end of the Twenties, it had sold more than 1,200,000 copies – ranking it among the bestselling books of its time.

A new edition of the original English language translation of this hard-to-find work has brought this important book back into print in the United States after more than 100 years. This new edition includes a 20 page introduction by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society (www.pandorasbox.com), detailing the book's remarkable history and relationship to the acclaimed 1929 film. This special "Louise Brooks Edition" includes three dozen illustrations.

Was it – as many believed – the real-life diary of a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution? Or a sensational and clever fake, one of the first novels of its kind? This contested work inspired a popular sequel, a banned stage play, a parody, a score of imitators, and two silent films. The best remembered of these is the often revived G.W. Pabst film starring Brooks. The book, by Margarete Bohme, was finally driven out of print and into obscurity at the beginning of the Nazi era.

“The book has unusual historical significance as well as literary sophistication. I set out to reclaim it from the ash heap of history,” stated editor Thomas Gladysz.

A display of archival materials relating to “The Diary of a Lost Girl, from book to film” is on display on the fourth floor of the SFPL. The Nov. 14th event is set to start at 1 pm. Gladysz will give a short illustrated talk about his new edition of The Diary of a Lost Girl, followed by a screening of the G.W. Pabst film. This event is free and open to the public.

More information at http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1002352301 and http://sfplamr.blogspot.com/2010/10/diary-of-lost-girl-from-book-to-film...

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Journal of Library Innovation has just published its latest issue at
http://www.libraryinnovation.org. We invite you to visit our web site to
review articles and items of interest.

Thank you for your continuing interest in our journal,
Pamela Jones
Medaille College
Phone 716-880-2451
pjones@medaille.edu

Journal of Library Innovation
Vol 1, No 2 (2010)
Table of Contents
http://www.libraryinnovation.org/issue/view/2

Editorials
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The Price of Innovation (3-5)
Sheryl Knab

Innovative Practice: Reports from the Field
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Quick and Dirty Library Promotions That Really Work (6-14)
Eric Jennings, Kathryn Tvaruzka

Accommodating Community Users in an Authenticated Library Technology
Environment (15-21)
Jonathan T. Younker

Making Physical Objects Clickable: Using Mobile Tags to Enhance Library
Displays (22-28)
Laura Baker

The Library is Undead: Information Seeking During the Zombie Apocalypse
(29-43)
Margeaux Johnson, Amy G. Buhler, Chris Hillman

Reviews
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Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming Obstacles Between Vision & Reality (44-45)
Jean Tate Hiebert

The Mobile Marketing Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic
Mobile Marketing Campaigns (46-47)
Sarah Passonneau

The Anywhere Library: A Primer for the Mobile Web (48-49)
Justina M. Elmore

Bite-Sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for the Overworked Librarian
(50-51)
Katie Donahue