~ Two New Search Enhancements Make it Easier to Find and Retrieve German Language Content in EBSCOhost® and EBSCO Discovery Service™ ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — November 21, 2011 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has further advanced its multilingual support by introducing two new German-Language search enhancements — an improved umlaut search and increased support for variants. These new features will enhance the search experience for German-language users in EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world, and EBSCO Discovery Service™, a core collection of locally-indexed metadata allowing users greater access to the library’s online full text and print holdings.

The enhanced umlaut search allows searches with a word that contains the umlauted vowel (ä, ö, ü) and retrieves the same word spelled with the digraph “vowel + e” (ae, oe, ue), and vice versa. For example, schöne and schoene will be treated completely interchangeably. Another advantage is that when data in records is entered inconsistently, sometimes using an umlauted vowel and sometimes using the digraph “vowel + e”, the search results will now include both, regardless of which way the query was entered.

EBSCO is also providing more support for variants enabling users to easily find what they are looking for. By covering a wide range of variations of the same word, search results will retrieve singular and plural forms in nouns and adjectives, variations of personal names, new spellings introduced as part of the 1996 Spelling Reform and other common spelling variations. Similar terms such as Großbritannien/England and synonyms of a search term (if the “Apply related words” option is selected) will also be represented in the result list.

Expanding multilanguage search to offer improved search results is an ongoing mission for EBSCO. The growth of EBSCOhost throughout the world, the continued addition of non-English content to databases and the advances in resources such as EBSCO Discovery Service, which extend searching beyond EBSCOhost resources, all require multilanguage search development.

Earlier this year, EBSCO announced the expansion of multilanguage searching in many of its resources to provide improved language-specific searching for more than 40 of the most common languages in EBSCOhost resources—a number that will continue to expand.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 350 full-text and secondary research databases and nearly 300,000 eBooks. 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®, PsycINFO® and RILM™. 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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Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
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kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

~ EBSCO Publishing Releases Only Evidence-based, Point-of-care Nursing Mobile Application Available Today ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — November 18, 2011 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is announcing the release of an iPhone application for Nursing Reference Center™. This new app from EBSCO represents the only evidence-based, point-of-care nursing mobile application available today.

The Nursing Reference Center iPhone app allows nurses to access point-of-care nursing content anytime and anywhere with EBSCO’s mobile technology. Users are able to search and browse the content quickly via their Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Available free from the iTunes App Store, Nursing Reference Center customers can take advantage of this mobile technology at no additional cost.

Features available with the new app include the ability to navigate through topics with a table of contents, view recent or saved searches and adjust content that is being searched via a categories page. The app also provides many of the same features that users are accustomed to such as an option to sort by relevance or date, save or email an item and auto complete functionality to suggest a search.

Nursing Reference Center offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents. The application features more than 2,200 clinically organized quick lessons, 700 evidence-based care sheets, over 1,100 drug monographs and 1,300 Nursing Practice and Skills & Skill Competency Checklists.

This point-of-care resource supports all five Magnet Components and is updated on a weekly basis. Nursing Reference Center also includes continuing education modules, detailed medical illustrations, the latest medical news, legal cases, research instruments, unique point-of-care reference books, and more.

Nursing Reference Center provides relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. Additional point-of-care resources offered by EBSCO Publishing include DynaMed™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™ and GIDEON™.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database and eBook aggregator, offering a suite of more than 350 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 medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, 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.

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kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

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The Shasta Historical Society Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Shasta Historical Society, of Redding, CA. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

The Library's Koha installation went live this week, and ByWater Solutions will be providing ongoing support and hosting services for them.

The Shasta Historical Society's Library houses a collection of over 50,000 books, maps, papers, photographs, and microfilm relating to Shasta County.

Brianne Lillienthal, Library Associate at the Shasta Historical Society, commented on their decision to switch to Koha with ByWater:

"The Shasta Historical Society is proud to partner with ByWater Solutions. The vast majority of our collection consists of photographs, vertical files and maps, which are not normally catalogued in a traditional method. The staff at ByWater Solutions have been eager to help Shasta Historical move into the modern world of research facilities. "

About Shasta Historical Society:
The Shasta Historical Society was formed on January 19, 1930, by a group of people who had been collecting then-living pioneers' accounts of their lives in the Gold Rush days. These accounts were then published in the newspaper as "The Trails Of 49." Collecting pioneer stories remains one of the activities of the society, but now it is a larger educational, non-profit organization. Its purposes are not only to collect, but to preserve knowledge about the ongoing history of Shasta County and, when appropriate of adjoining areas, to maintain a depository of such historical material to serve as a research library for its members and others and to spread the knowledge of local history and enjoyment to the public. For more information, please visit: http://www.shastahistorical.org/

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://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://bywatersolutions.com/

Santa Cruz Public Library Goes Live on Evergreen

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Norcross, GA —November 16, 2011

The Santa Cruz Public Library has gone live as the first public library in California to use Evergreen. Equinox Software provided data migration and training services and will continue to provide on-going technical support.

The Santa Cruz Public Library consists of 10 branches and a book mobile. Their collection also includes materials from the county law library. 237,000 bibliographic records were loaded to the new system, and the library provides services for over 90,000 patrons. Their new online catalog can be viewed at http://catalog.santacruzpl.org/

Galen Charlton, Director of Support and Implementation at Equinox, commented,"It was a pleasure working with the staff at Santa Cruz, who were instrumental in the success of a fast implementation project."

Deborah Lipoma, Project Manager for Santa Cruz Public Library, says, “"Santa Cruz is pleased to be the first Evergreen public library in California, and we look forward to many more libraries in the state joining the open source community."

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.

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a growing team of skilled professionals who provide services for Evergreen and Koha. These services include software development, consulting, training, legacy data migration, 24x7 technical support, and system hosting. Equinox also engages and supports a rapidly expanding open source community.

For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571

Evergreen and Koha are open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Evergreen and the Evergreen logo are trademarks of the Georgia Public Library Service.

~Eight $10,000 Grants to be Awarded as Part of the Most Prestigious Award of the American Library Association~

IPSWICH, Mass. — November 15, 2011 — Libraries using innovative ways to conduct public relations efforts have more opportunities to benefit. The John Cotton Dana Award (JCD) is being expanded to include eight $10,000 grants.

The award is provided in conjunction with the H.W. Wilson Foundation, the American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO Publishing. The award, which is managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) division of ALA, honors outstanding library public relations.

The award is named after John Cotton Dana, the father of the modern library, credited with helping transition libraries from reading rooms to community centers. JCD submissions include strategic library communication campaigns from all sizes and types of libraries. Submissions include rebranding efforts, promoting unique archives, awareness campaigns and community partnerships. Entries may be submitted by any library, Friends group, consulting agency or service provider, excluding libraries represented by the JCD Committee members.

JCD entries are organized around the following areas: needs assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Libraries submit samples of their processes, research, media releases, media coverage or other results received plus evaluation of the results and other documentation and supporting materials that show the scope and effectiveness of the library’s strategic communication effort.

In recognition of their achievement, JCD award winners receive a cash development grant from the H.W. Wilson Foundation. The John Cotton Dana Awards are presented during an Awards Tea hosted by EBSCO Publishing held during the American Library Association annual conference.

Entry documents are available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/john-cotton-dana and entries must be received by March 15, 2012.

About the John Cotton Dana Award
The John Cotton Dana Award was inaugurated at the 1946 annual conference of the American Library Association. It was named after John Cotton Dana (1856-1929), a librarian called the father of the modern library.

About The H.W. Wilson Foundation
The H.W. Wilson Foundation was established in 1952 by Halsey W. Wilson, founder of The H.W. Wilson Company. Over the years the foundation has provided grants to libraries and library related causes. Since 1957 the foundation has supported scholarship grants to all library schools accredited by the American Library Association in the United States and Canada. Visit the foundation at thwwf.org.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost®, the world’s premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and eBooks. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of 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 Director
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com