North Bethesda, MD –October 26, 2012 – Students in Dr. Nashrawan Taha’s Automation of Information Centers and Libraries course at the University of Jordan will begin utilizing LibLime Koha this fall through LibLime's Koha with Class program.

LibLime will provide the class of approximately 18 students with a hosted installation of LibLime Koha 4.14 free of charge. This will allow the students unlimited access and all privileges associated with the staff end of LibLime Koha as well as all OPAC functionality for the duration of the course. LibLime Koha 4.14 introduces the Solr search engine to the Koha application. The Solr engine provides increased performance for importing and indexing bibliographic records. Solr also provides a much richer facet list for OPAC searching. Students in Dr. Taha’s class will have the opportunity to take advantage of these and other improvements brought to the application through the Solr search engine.

Dr. Taha says “We chose Koha because it is one of the most up-to-date ILS packages and in a world where cloud computing is starting to be dominant, we need to always learn the best.”

About LibLime’s Koha with Class
LibLime's Koha with Class program is designed to give library school faculty a chance to embed the use of an ILS into their coursework and curricula. This allows students to gain practical experience with library automation software as they prepare to enter the library workforce. Many faculty members around the world are taking advantage of the free support that LibLime provides with the Koha with Class installations. LibLime is striving to expand the program overseas to support librarianship at an international level. To learn more about the program visit or if you wish to get involved go to: http://www.liblime.com/we-give-back.

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.

~ Partnership between Digitalia and EBSCO Publishing Brings Wide Spectrum of Spanish Titles to EBSCO Discovery Service™ ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 25, 2012 — EBSCO Publishing’s (EBSCO) recent agreement with content partner, Digitalia will enable Spanish content, serving a vast range of interest and needs, to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Digitalia is a global leader in quality content with thousands of e-books from the most renowned Spanish and Latin American Publishing Houses, as well as relevant Spanish journals that cover all topics of interest.

Founded in 2007, Digitalia content includes selected Spanish titles designed to support the needs of libraries, academic institutions and students. Digitalia’s collection includes over 8,000 Spanish Language digitized books and journals encompassing a broad spectrum topics including:

• Architecture
• Art
• Caribbean Studies
• Cinema Studies
• Economics and Business
• Engineering and Technology
• Historic Periodicals of Spain
• History
• Languages, Linguistics and Philosophy
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Religion and Mythology
• Science
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

The agreement between EBSCO and Digitalia enables EDS users to search the full text of Digitalia’s content creating an easy way for users to find and utilize the extensive Spanish content.

Digitalia 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), which accounts for more than 350,000 publications from the world’s top publishers and information providers. However, because EDS is a custom solution, the complete index to materials for any given customer may be expanded greatly beyond the coverage referenced for the Base Index. In terms of depth of coverage for publications in the EBSCO Discovery Service Base Index, content extends back to the 15th century, and in some cases, even earlier. The inclusion of custom catalogs, repositories and other resources may certainly further extend the dates of archival coverage for a given institution.

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 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

~ Latest Information in Field of Library and Information Science ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 23, 2012 — Library & Information Science Source™, the definitive resource in the field of library and information science, is now available from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO). Library & Information Science Source is a full text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science.

Developed by librarians for librarians, Library & Information Science Source will appeal to those interested in librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and many other library and information science related areas. Specific coverage includes subjects such as automation, care & restoration of books, circulation procedures, government aid, internet software, library equipment and supplies and rare books.

Library & Information Science Source includes full text for more than 460 high-quality journals, nearly 30 full text monographs, thesauri and indexing for hundreds of journals as well as books, research reports and proceedings. The database also provides access to author profiles, including information on 5,000 of the most-frequently indexed authors, such as which subject terms are most commonly applied to their articles, and in which publications the author has been published

H.W. Wilson records form the foundation of Library & Information Science Source. For the first time the entire H.W. Wilson indexing collection of literature in library and information science studies and librarianship is available within a single database. Library & Information Science Source is a combination of all the A&I and full text records in H.W. Wilson’s Library & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 and Library & Information Science Full Text. In addition there is all the unique A&I and full text content from Libraries, & Information Science Full Text™, plus an additional 50 full text titles not available on any other EBSCOhost® database.

EBSCO and H.W. Wilson merged in 2011 in what was viewed by the companies as an ideal match. The acquisition led directly to heightening the value and quality of EBSCO and Wilson resources as well as the creation of a line of source products, including Library & Information Science Source. EBSCO plans to release additional source products focusing on specific subject matter over the next few months.

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 more than 325,000 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

North Bethesda, MD – October 18, 2012 – LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Director’s Organization) are proud to welcome the University of Advancing Technology (UAT) to the LibLime Academic Koha development group. The UAT has selected LibLime Academic Koha to replace its legacy ILS because of the advanced functionality of the features designed and deployed by the WALDO Development Group, as well as, the cost savings in annual support, maintenance, and hosting. LibLime will provide its professional implementation services to the UAT, including project management, data migration, system configuration, and functional & administrative training.

Migrating to LibLime Academic Koha will minimize internal IT resources at the University of Advancing Technology as LibLime Academic Koha is a completely web-based solution, and LibLime will provide hosting and maintenance using its distributed computing cloud platform.

The UAT will join the WALDO Development group, an active partnership of academic and research libraries working to enhance LibLime Academic Koha. The ideas from the UAT will expand LibLime Academic Koha functionality in areas related to technology in an academic setting.

About the University of Advancing Technology
The University of Advancing Technology is a private, for-profit institution of higher learning located in Tempe, Arizona. The UAT merges the values of the traditional academy with the modern technology campus, a fusion that enhances the UAT’s ability to fulfill the mission of educating students in the fields of advancing technology who innovate for the future. At the heart of UAT’s curricula is a technology-infused campus. This fusion of the traditional university with technology-focused curricula creates a distinct, non-exclusionary university in which students learn to value their own uniqueness and the power of technology in education.

About WALDO
Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) is a membership organization supporting the procurement & administration of electronic information services for libraries since 1982. Supporting over 900 member libraries, WALDO offers consortial discounts for over 5,000 products and services. For more information, please visit http://www.waldolib.org or contact Robert Karen at 866-576-6051 ext. 1 or rob@waldolib.org. Other advantages of choosing a LibLime solution through the WALDO consortium include volume discounts, standard contracts, consolidated renewals and invoicing and centralized billing. Participation in the LibLime discounts through WALDO is available to all WALDO full, associate and limited members.

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.

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/