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October 21st, 2011LISWireOCLC has added more databases and signed agreements with leading publishers and other providers to add more content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 865 million items.
WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases in a variety of formats from a variety of publishers and content providers from around the world; the digital collections of groups like HathiTrust, OAIster and Google Books; open access materials; and the collective resources of libraries worldwide through WorldCat.
WorldCat Local can offer users access to more than 1,600 databases and collections, and more than 614 million articles.
OCLC recently added content to the WorldCat Local central index, including:
• ABC-CLIO: World Religions: Belief, Culture and Controversy provides a virtual textbook that covers religion across the globe, making student research on faith and belief across humanity easier, and enabling a deeper understanding of the complex issues facing us in the 21st century.
• Accessible Archives, Inc.: Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, Accessible Archives’ databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records are available in a user-friendly online environment.
• ACM: The ACM Digital Library is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.
• Annual Reviews: Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature, and are available in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world.
• Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Companions Online is the electronic version of the renowned Cambridge Companions series, covering literature, philosophy, classics, religion and cultural studies. Over 300 Companions offer lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Lectrix is an innovative online resource which integrates selected classic works of Greek and Latin literature with commentaries from the world-renowned Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series for word-by-word, click-by-click access. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90 percent of the original images, available online for the first time.
• Gale: With over 76 million records, Business & Company Resource Center is a premier electronic information solution for all academic disciplines, business researchers and entrepreneurs.
• Genealogy Today: Genealogy Today has been publishing genealogy data and offering innovative services since 1999. This site provides time-saving resources and the latest techniques available in genealogy research.
• HAPI: The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) includes over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
In addition, the following vendor record collections are now available in WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org for libraries that subscribe to this content and have purchased MARC records from the content provider:
• Cassidy Cataloguing: Westlaw IV - Law Journals and Law Reviews, Westlaw VI - International E-treatises, and Westlaw VII - Legal Newsletters are now available through WorldCat Local.
OCLC also has recently signed agreements with the following providers to add content into WorldCat Local:
• Religious and Theological Abstracts provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.
• The Berkeley Electronic Press: Libraries are increasingly using the Digital Commons platform to enable their faculty and students to publish open access, original scholarship. Digital Commons subscribers will now be able to select the high-value scholarly content, including library-hosted peer review journal content, they would like to make discoverable via WorldCat. The service will be available as part of the growing suite of Digital Commons publishing services, and will serve to further increase the discovery of this open access and original scholarship.
OCLC continues to negotiate access to critical library content on behalf of the cooperative to ensure access to libraries’ most popular resources. To view a list of databases and collections from these and other publishers available through WorldCat Local, visit the website.
For more information, visit the WorldCat Local website.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org. -
October 21st, 2011LISWire
OCLC has added more databases and signed agreements with leading publishers and other providers to add more content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 865 million items.
WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases in a variety of formats from a variety of publishers and content providers from around the world; the digital collections of groups like HathiTrust, OAIster and Google Books; open access materials; and the collective resources of libraries worldwide through WorldCat.
WorldCat Local can offer users access to more than 1,600 databases and collections, and more than 614 million articles.
OCLC recently added content to the WorldCat Local central index, including:
• ABC-CLIO: World Religions: Belief, Culture and Controversy provides a virtual textbook that covers religion across the globe, making student research on faith and belief across humanity easier, and enabling a deeper understanding of the complex issues facing us in the 21st century.
• Accessible Archives, Inc.: Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, Accessible Archives’ databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records are available in a user-friendly online environment.
• ACM: The ACM Digital Library is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.
• Annual Reviews: Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature, and are available in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world.
• Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Companions Online is the electronic version of the renowned Cambridge Companions series, covering literature, philosophy, classics, religion and cultural studies. Over 300 Companions offer lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Lectrix is an innovative online resource which integrates selected classic works of Greek and Latin literature with commentaries from the world-renowned Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series for word-by-word, click-by-click access. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90 percent of the original images, available online for the first time.
• Gale: With over 76 million records, Business & Company Resource Center is a premier electronic information solution for all academic disciplines, business researchers and entrepreneurs.
• Genealogy Today: Genealogy Today has been publishing genealogy data and offering innovative services since 1999. This site provides time-saving resources and the latest techniques available in genealogy research.
• HAPI: The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) includes over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
In addition, the following vendor record collections are now available in WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org for libraries that subscribe to this content and have purchased MARC records from the content provider:
• Cassidy Cataloguing: Westlaw IV - Law Journals and Law Reviews, Westlaw VI - International E-treatises, and Westlaw VII - Legal Newsletters are now available through WorldCat Local.
OCLC also has recently signed agreements with the following providers to add content into WorldCat Local:
• Religious and Theological Abstracts provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.
• The Berkeley Electronic Press: Libraries are increasingly using the Digital Commons platform to enable their faculty and students to publish open access, original scholarship. Digital Commons subscribers will now be able to select the high-value scholarly content, including library-hosted peer review journal content, they would like to make discoverable via WorldCat. The service will be available as part of the growing suite of Digital Commons publishing services, and will serve to further increase the discovery of this open access and original scholarship.
OCLC continues to negotiate access to critical library content on behalf of the cooperative to ensure access to libraries’ most popular resources. To view a list of databases and collections from these and other publishers available through WorldCat Local, visit the website.
For more information, visit the WorldCat Local website.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org. -
October 21st, 2011LISWire
10/20/2011
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.comGreen Mountain College's Griswold Library Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Green Mountain College's Griswold Library, of Poultney, VT. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.
The Library's Koha installation went live in late August, and ByWater Solutions will be
providing ongoing support and hosting services for them.The Griswold Library houses a collection of over 118,000 books, videos, and electronic resources, along with over 30 databases and 30,000 print and electronic journals
Cail Clark, Cataloging Library Specialist at the Griswold Library, commented on their decision to switch to Koha with ByWater:
" We felt, as many libraries do, that we were paying too much and getting too little from our former ILS vendor. That being said, changing something as fundamental to all facets of library operation as one’s ILS is a monumental task, requiring extensive forethought, a realistic plan for execution of each step, and excellent communication in all stages of the process. In addition, it requires savvy data manipulation and a deep knowledge of ILS vendors and systems, what is possible, and how it can be manifested."
She continues; "At Green Mountain College, our experience migrating to Koha supported by ByWater Solutions has been truly great. What we did not have in-house, technically speaking, ByWater provided. What we lacked in knowledge of how to make our processes and OPAC navigation smoother, ByWater supplied in the form of broad knowledge of both our old ILS and Koha; what could be done, and how. Open communication and super fast responses have made our migration and all the little proprietary adjustments we’ve needed as painless as possible."
Cail goes on to say; " Koha has improved our public presence through its highly customizable OPAC, as well as the functionality and process flow of nearly every staff member’s work. Best of all, it’s ours, and we can easily modify it to suit our specific needs and those of our academic patrons. The ability to collaborate and influence the direction and developments within an open source platform gives us a level of control and personalized investment we never had with our old ILS, and it’s very exciting! Many thanks to ByWater for their exceptional support – before, during and after our migration to an exceptional product."
The Griswold Library's customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://catalog.greenmtn.edu/
About Green Mountain College:
Green Mountain College was founded in 1834 by the Troy Conference of the United Methodist Church. Throughout its history, strong teacher-student relationships have been the hallmark of a GMC education, a tradition that continues today.At the heart of the College’s environmental mission is the 37-credit Environmental Liberal Arts General Education Program, which all GMC students complete. ELA combines the skills and content of a strong liberal arts course of study with a focus on the environment.
Experiential learning is also central to a GMC education: Students are encouraged to gain hands-on experience through internships, service-learning opportunities and study abroad programs. Interdisciplinary block courses allow students to spend an entire semester working with professors from multiple disciplines on a single area of focus, often through field research, overnight outings, discussions with experts and a culminating project. Adventure programming and the Farm and Food Project provide additional hands-on learning opportunities. For more information, please visit: http://greenmtn.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: http://www.koha-community.org
About ByWater Solutions:
With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, top ranked 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: http://www.bywatersolutions.com -
October 21st, 2011LISWire
10/20/2011
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.comGreen Mountain College's Griswold Library Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Green Mountain College's Griswold Library, of Poultney, VT. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.
The Library's Koha installation went live in late August, and ByWater Solutions will be
providing ongoing support and hosting services for them.The Griswold Library houses a collection of over 118,000 books, videos, and electronic resources, along with over 30 databases and 30,000 print and electronic journals
Cail Clark, Cataloging Library Specialist at the Griswold Library, commented on their decision to switch to Koha with ByWater:
" We felt, as many libraries do, that we were paying too much and getting too little from our former ILS vendor. That being said, changing something as fundamental to all facets of library operation as one’s ILS is a monumental task, requiring extensive forethought, a realistic plan for execution of each step, and excellent communication in all stages of the process. In addition, it requires savvy data manipulation and a deep knowledge of ILS vendors and systems, what is possible, and how it can be manifested."
She continues; "At Green Mountain College, our experience migrating to Koha supported by ByWater Solutions has been truly great. What we did not have in-house, technically speaking, ByWater provided. What we lacked in knowledge of how to make our processes and OPAC navigation smoother, ByWater supplied in the form of broad knowledge of both our old ILS and Koha; what could be done, and how. Open communication and super fast responses have made our migration and all the little proprietary adjustments we’ve needed as painless as possible."
Cail goes on to say; " Koha has improved our public presence through its highly customizable OPAC, as well as the functionality and process flow of nearly every staff member’s work. Best of all, it’s ours, and we can easily modify it to suit our specific needs and those of our academic patrons. The ability to collaborate and influence the direction and developments within an open source platform gives us a level of control and personalized investment we never had with our old ILS, and it’s very exciting! Many thanks to ByWater for their exceptional support – before, during and after our migration to an exceptional product."
The Griswold Library's customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://catalog.greenmtn.edu/
About Green Mountain College:
Green Mountain College was founded in 1834 by the Troy Conference of the United Methodist Church. Throughout its history, strong teacher-student relationships have been the hallmark of a GMC education, a tradition that continues today.At the heart of the College’s environmental mission is the 37-credit Environmental Liberal Arts General Education Program, which all GMC students complete. ELA combines the skills and content of a strong liberal arts course of study with a focus on the environment.
Experiential learning is also central to a GMC education: Students are encouraged to gain hands-on experience through internships, service-learning opportunities and study abroad programs. Interdisciplinary block courses allow students to spend an entire semester working with professors from multiple disciplines on a single area of focus, often through field research, overnight outings, discussions with experts and a culminating project. Adventure programming and the Farm and Food Project provide additional hands-on learning opportunities. For more information, please visit: http://greenmtn.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: http://www.koha-community.org
About ByWater Solutions:
With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, top ranked 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: http://www.bywatersolutions.com -
October 20th, 2011LISWire
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA —October 20, 2011
The Evergreen Conference Site Selection Committee is pleased to announce that the 2013 Evergreen International Conference will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia April 10- April 13 2013. This marks the first time that the conference will be held outside of the United States. Equinox Software is proud to support the 2013 committee and will serve as a conference sponsor.
The King County Library System and BC Libraries Cooperative- Home of Sitka- will act as joint hosts for the annual gathering of software developers, system administrators, and end users of the Evergreen open source integrated library system.
"We look forward to welcoming hundreds of delegates from around the world with legendary Pacific Northwestern hospitality in a world-class city with tremendous social, recreational and cultural offerings."
KCLS was named Library Journal’s 2011 Library of The Year and is recognized as the busiest library system in the United States. BC Libraries Cooperative was the first consortium outside of Georgia PINES to migrate to Evergreen and has been an active voice for open source software for over 4 years. More information about the 2013 hosts can be found at www.kcls.org and http://cooperative.bclibraries.ca/
"BC Libraries Cooperative and KCLS are proud of our involvement in the Evergreen community and we are keen to provide a forum for mutual learning, networking and the continued development of Evergreen and the International Evergreen Community."
More information about the 2013 conference will be available immediately following the Evergreen 2012 Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana next April.
About Evergreen
Evergreen is a robust, open-source integrated library system best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia. However, it has also proven equally successful scaled down for even the smallest libraries.
Since its debut in September 2006, the software has sustained the 280-plus libraries of the Georgia PINES consortium. Evergreen has earned acclaim and praise from users worldwide, including a Technology Collaboration Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Evergreen now supports over 1,000 libraries of every type-public, academic, special, and school media centers. Evergreen’s rapidly expanding community includes libraries across 4 countries including 31 U.S. states and 8 Canadian provinces.For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.
Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571
Evergreen is open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL.