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July 27th, 2012LISWire7/26/2012
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
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sales@bywatersolutions.comThe Chinook Library Network Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha (www.koha-community.org) support, announced today that the Chinook Library Network in Oregon is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.
ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the first libraries to join the network — Lincoln County Library District, Oregon Coast Community College, Siletz Public Library, Tillamook Bay Community College, Toledo Public Library and Waldport Public Library — in June and will be providing ongoing support and hosting services for them and other libraries as they join the network.
The Chinook Library Network has a collection of over 155,000 titles. Their customized online catalog can be viewed here: http://www.chinooklibraries.org.
Diedre Conkling, Library Director, commented on the Library Network’s move to Koha and ByWater:
“The Chinook Library Network is a newly formed network of independent city, county and community college libraries working together through a shared catalog. The first members of our new network went live with Koha on June 11, 2012. We are very happy to now be a part of the Koha community and are learning more every day on how to take full advantage of the Koha ILS and we hope to be able to add more libraries after we are all a little more skilled with the new system.”
Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater commented on the new partnership:
“I’m always excited to see groups of libraries come together like those in the Chinook Library Network have. The collaboration and cooperation of various types of libraries such as those in the Chinook Library Network exemplifies the ideals and goals of the Open Source Software Community and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with them going forward.”
About The Chinook Library Network:
The Chinook Library Network is a newly formed network of independent city, county and community college libraries working together through a shared catalog. The network is administered by the Lincoln County Library District and came into being to broaden the base of materials or number of items available to our library users. The libraries that join the network all agree to share materials with the other libraries in the network and patrons may check out materials at any network libraries. The Chinook Library Network is connected through either a county courier system or the statewide courier (Orbis Cascade Alliance). For more information about the Chinook Library Network please visit: http://www.chinooklibraries.orgAbout 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:
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/ -
July 26th, 2012LISWire
~ UK Parliamentary and Official Documents Added to EBSCO Discovery Service™ ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — July 26, 2012 —Dandy Booksellers’ Public Information Online (PIO) is the latest content source to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO). Public Information Online is an archive of United Kingdom Parliamentary and official documents. The addition of this content will serve as a valuable resource for EDS users with interest in UK law, history and official information.
PIO collections are current and updated daily and include documents from the Westminster Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Assembly and non parliamentary material core documents from government departments and the Scottish Government. The agreement between EBSCO and Dandy Booksellers enables metadata from PIO to be added to the Base Index of EDS. PIO subscribers who are users of EBSCO Discovery Service will also have the ability to search the full text of these collections in order to find exactly what they need to keep abreast of Parliamentary Papers and core UK official documents.
Dandy Booksellers is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.
The EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers, representing far more content providers and publishers than any other discovery service.
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.
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™.
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 e-books. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 e-books. 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
EBSCO Publishing
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.comPublic Information Online
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July 24th, 2012LISWire
~ French Journals Covering Field of Humanities Expands International Content in EBSCO Discovery Service™ ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — July 24, 2012 — Persée content is now available via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. Due to a recent agreement with Persée, EBSCO Discovery Service, now indexes scientific French journals in the field of humanities. EDS offers metadata for all Persée content and searchable full-text for freely available content. This addition confirms EBSCO’s commitment to continually expand international content in EDS.
Content from Persée represents more than 390,000 articles from French journals covering the field of humanities. The journals are carefully selected by an editorial board, guaranteeing the collection’s scientific coherence. Persée content covers the following disciplines:
• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Arts
• Economics
• Education Science
• Geography
• History
• Information and Communication Sciences
• Law
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Social Sciences
• SociologyPersée is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.
The EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers, representing far more content providers and publishers than any other discovery service.
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.
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™.
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 e-books. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 e-books. 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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July 21st, 2012LISWire
Bethesda, MD, July 20, 2012 LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Athens Independent School District of Athens, Texas, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.10. The School District is running a union catalog with the combined collections of three elementary school libraries, one middle school library, and one high school library. The School District librarians look forward to taking advantage of all of the extended functionality in LibLime Koha 4.10 that allows for more local autonomy in a union catalog, such as patron record ownership, item record ownership, and OPAC limiting to show local holdings only on a search.
About Athens Independent School District
The Athens Independent School District serves the community of Athens, Texas, which is the seat of Henderson County. The Athens Independent School District’s vision is to become an exemplary school district in which every child achieves to his or her maximum ability through rigorous and relevant curriculum with relationships that cultivate the potential and promote the well-being of every individual child. Athens is only a short drive from Dallas, with a county population of over 80,000 residents.About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime-PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net. -
July 19th, 2012LISWire
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 18, 2012, Medford, NJ—Information Today, Inc. [ITI] has announced the publication of The Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed by David Shumaker.
Here is the first comprehensive survey of the growing practice of "embedded librarianship"—a strategic model for placing information professionals into partnerships with the individuals and working groups that depend upon their knowledge and expertise. In The Embedded Librarian, David Shumaker looks at implementations in all types of organizations, identifies the characteristics of successful embedded librarians, and explains how information professionals in public, academic, school, medical, law, and other specialized library settings are using embedded librarianship principles to enhance their work and careers.
“We librarians must master new technologies for managing and delivering information. We must engage with knowledge and recognize the difference between information and knowledge. We must develop new organizational structures and new management techniques,” says Shumaker in the book’s Introduction. “Above all, we must establish new relationships with information users,—the people in our communities, universities, schools, corporations, agencies, and firms who need us. These imperatives are operating in every sector of the profession.”
As the way librarians access information changes with the improvements in technology, they must take on new roles in order to add value of their organizations. The approach in which librarians partner with information users, participate in information communities, develop relationships with teams, contribute directly to enhanced team and organizational performance. Shumaker been a successful manager of embedded library operations, and has been engaged in studying and researching the topic for over five years. He makes a compelling argument as to why librarians should embrace this approach as a way to provide value to the organization and their customers.
In The Embedded Librarian, David also presents a series of exercises from workshops that he has led that are intended to provide the tools librarians need in order to implement change in their own organization. He includes self-assessment questions, a step-by-step guide, and methods of evaluation to help the novice embedded librarian in his/her work. Readers can also connect with David through his companion website (www.embeddedlibrarian.com) which is designed to keep them up-to-date on the latest developments in embedded librarianship.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Shumaker has served as clinical associate professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America, since August 2006. Dave’s teaching interests include the present and future roles of librarians in society, the management of libraries and information services, marketing, information systems, and library public services. His research and writing explore the changing roles of librarians in organizations of all types. He and his co-investigator, Mary Talley, were awarded the 2007 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Research Grant for their project, Models of Embedded Librarianship. Dave is a frequent speaker and panelist on embedded librarianship.The Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed (240pp/softbound/$49.50/ISBN 978-1-57387-452-6) is published by Information Today, Inc. (ITI) and is available wherever professional books and ebooks are sold. For more information, contact the publisher by calling (800) 300-9868; faxing (609) 654-4309; emailing custserv@infotoday.com, or visiting the ITI website at www.infotoday.com.
Press contact: Rob Colding: rcolding@infotoday.com, phone: 609-654-6500 ext. 330.
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