Library Juice Press to "Unglue" a Book for Prospective Librarians with Unglue.it

October 15, 2012
LOS ANGELES

Library Juice Press is announcing one of the latest campaigns to "unglue" an e-book so that it can be shared under a creative commons license, in partnership with Unglue.it.

Unglue.it is an organization devoted to opening up access to electronic books in a way that is community based, library friendly, publisher friendly, and convenient. Using crowd-funding, Unglue.it facilitates campaigns to buy out future e-book rights so that e-books can be used freely by the public, perpetually. Library Juice Press supports the Unglue.it project, because it is smart, realistic, forward-thinking, and motivated by values that librarians can get behind.

Coinciding with Unglue.it's relaunch with a new crowd-funding platform, Library Juice Press is announcing a campaign to "unglue"
Lauren Pressley's popular book, So You Want To Be a Librarian, a concise yet comprehensive guide to the library profession, aimed at an audience of college students and recent graduates, as well as career changers. Library Juice Press determined that the book would be a suitable candidate for an Unglue.it campaign, due to the financial limitations of college students, as well as their familiarity with e-readers.

As Lauren Pressley says about Unglue.it, "Unglue.it is something every librarian should be paying attention to. Part crowdsourcing, part open access, part answer to the ebook problem, it's a solution to some of the most critical issues libraries are facing today. Ungluing a book gives it to the world, so that anyone can access the ebook without Digital Rights Management (DRM), without worrying about how many devices they've put it on, and without worrying about legality and compensation issues. Libraries can provide access to unglued books for free, forever, in any format -- no need to worry about changing contract terms or pricing."

Author Lauren Pressley currently serves as Head of Instruction at the Wake Forest University Library. She is a frequent presenter on library technology topics, with numerous published articles and book chapters.
A 2009 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, she is also a member of ALA Council, Director at Large of the LITA Executive Committee, and otherwise active in national, regional and state associations. She is also the winner of the 2011 Greenwood Publishing Award for Best Book in Library Literature for The Tech Set, from Neal-Schumann Publishing.
Her CV is available at http://laurenpressley.com/library/full-cv-pdf/

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Library Juice Press is a small publisher for the library profession founded in 2006 by Rory Litwin, specializing in library philosophy, information policy, library activism, and library history. It is an imprint of Litwin Books, LLC, which publishes books about media, communication and the cultural record, primarily for an academic audience.

To support the Unglue.it campaign for Lauren Pressley's book for prospective librarians, go to:
https://unglue.it/work/76348/

For more information about Lauren, go to:
http://laurenpressley.com/library/

For more information about Library Juice Press, see:
http://libraryjuicepress.com/

Birmingham, Ala. — Oct. 18, 2012 — The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO are partnering to offer scholarships to five librarians who plan to attend the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting. Scheduled to take place Jan. 24 – 28, 2013, in Seattle, the meeting gives library professionals an opportunity to participate in continuing education programs, attend informative meetings, and interact with colleagues.

Each EBSCO scholarship will be in the amount of $1,500, and one of the five scholarships will be awarded to a first-time conference attendee; scholarship funds are to be used for conference registration, travel, and expenses.
The deadline for entry is Nov. 1, 2012; scholarship recipients will be notified no later than Dec. 14, 2012.

To be considered for the scholarship, candidates must complete the application criteria and submit an essay that addresses the following topic: “The conversation starts here: How would you lead the discussion in your library to bring about meaningful change to an existing process, service, or procedure?” Essays and applications will be judged by an ALA-designated jury.

About ALA
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit professional organization of more than 65,000 librarians, library trustees, and other friends of libraries dedicated to providing and improving library services and promoting the public interest in a free and open information society: www.ala.org.

About EBSCO
EBSCO Information Services — the provider of EBSCONET® Subscription Management — is the world’s leading information intermediary, offering cutting-edge technology and personalized consultative services for managing and accessing content, including e-journals, e-packages, e-books, and more. Today’s libraries and research organizations are looking for new ways to manage their collections more efficiently, so EBSCO Information Services has developed comprehensive, highly integrated management solutions to help librarians save time and money while empowering their users. EBSCO serves clients through our offices worldwide and has more than 140 librarians on staff. To learn more about products and services from EBSCO Information Services, visit www.ebsco.com.

For more information, please contact:

Rossi Morris
Media Relations Coordinator
EBSCO Corporate Communications
www.twitter.com/EBSCOInfoSvcs
rmorris@ebsco.com
205-980-3885

Cheryl Malden
Program Officer
American Library Association
cmalden@ala.org
312-280-3247

EBSCO Publishing Announces New E-book and Audiobook Collections Providing Sports and Politics Resources
~ Football 2012 and Election 2012 eBook and Audiobook Featured Collections Now Available ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 18, 2012 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released two new e-book and audiobook featured collections for libraries: Football 2012™ and Election 2012™. E-book and audiobook featured collections enable libraries to choose from a selection of featured titles covering a broad range of topics within a particular subject area.

eBook Collection: Football 2012
Football 2012 includes a package of 75 fiction and nonfiction e-book and audiobook titles selected to appeal to patrons and students of different ages and varying levels of knowledge of American football. The collection covers all different aspects of football including biographies of key players, health and wellness information, titles on How To and general rules and guidelines of the sport. Football 2012 enables libraries to grow their permanent collection to include the popular sport of football.

eBook Collection: Election 2012
Election 2012 is a featured collection that includes academic non-fiction and lighter materials with appeal to the general voting public and younger audiences. The Obama Administration is reviewed from numerous cultural, economic, and military perspectives, and titles covering previous elections and presidential terms in office are also included. The collection offers 72 titles for libraries looking to grow or add to their political collection.

Each collection was created by EBSCO’s collection development team of librarians to ensure that the collections contain high quality content. These collections will be available for order via EBSCOhost Collection Manager™ .

eBooks on EBSCOhost®
eBooks on EBSCOhost® offers more than 325,000 e-books and audiobooks. EBSCO proactively acquires new content in critical areas, based on the dynamic needs of libraries. Earlier in the year EBSCO released EBSCOhost Collection Manager, a collection management tool that allows users to search, browse, build lists, and order e-books quickly and easily. More information is available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/ebooks/manage-order/ecm.

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 more than 325,000 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
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

10/16/2012
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Liberty Lake Municipal Library Joins CIN and 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, is happy to welcome the Liberty Lake Municipal Library to the Cooperative Information Network (CIN). Liberty Lake Municipal Library is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system with continued support by ByWater Solutions.

CIN, a consortia of almost 30 public, school and medical libraries in North Idaho and Pend Oreille County, Washington, share a public catalog to provide better accessibility to community members. The shared public catalog can be viewed at http://catalog.cin.bywatersolutions.com.

The Liberty Lake Municipal Library itself holds over 31,000 items which are not accessible to all consortia members.

Pamela A. Mogen, Liberty Lake Municipal Library Director, commented on the library’s migration experience with ByWater:

“The highly approachable and flexible Bywater Solutions staff made our migration from not only one ILS to another, but from independence to a member of a consortium, an easy and smooth transition.”

About the Cooperative Information Network:

CIN is a system of almost 30 public, school, and special libraries in the Eastern Washington and Idaho area. Their union catalog has 255,540 bibliographic records, 580,238 items and has 139,968 patrons. For more information about CIN please visit: http://www.cinlibraries.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:

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/