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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Kathleen McEvoy
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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/

DALLAS, TX,– Amigos Library Services, in conjunction with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, will present a one-day online conference “What’s Around the Next Bend: Future Currents in Resource Sharing” on Thursday, November 15. The conference will cover a variety of topics, including marketing interlibrary loan to students, the cost of ILL, free web tools for streamlining ILL as well as e-books and ILL.

Cyril Oberlander, winner of the 2012 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Librarian Award, will begin the conference with his keynote address “The Future of Interlibrary Loan- Valued Role in Transforming Libraries”. He will discuss what libraries will experience looking forward to the next five years, and what it will mean for their services, roles, skills, and expectations.
Three concurrent sessions will run throughout the day. Among the scheduled sessions are:

• The Cost of ILL: Real Numbers for Better Decision Making, presented by Lars Leon, University of Kansas
• E-books and ILL: Turbulent Waters, presented by Linda Frederiksen, Washington State University Vancouver
• Campus Book Delivery via Bicycle, presented by Molly Murphy, University of Oklahoma
• Marketing Interlibrary Loan to Students: Promoting and Expanding Services, presented by Kristen Palmiere, University of Texas at Dallas
• The Get It Now Experience, presented by Tim Bowen of the Copyright Clearance Center
• Rising to the Challenge of International Resource Sharing, presented by Tina Baich, Indiana University-Purdue

For the full schedule and registration, click here. Early bird registration ends November 1, 2012.

About Amigos Library Services
We are one of the largest consortia of libraries and cultural heritage institutions in the United States. For more than 35 years, Amigos members have collaborated to obtain affordable services and shared library resources and knowledge. Through membership in Amigos, we collectively gain access to the latest innovations and services in the library community; pursue opportunities for continuing professional education; leverage our buying power; and preserve our rich cultural heritage. This collaboration strengthens each member’s ability to serve and lead its community in the creative and effective use of information resources.
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~Costa Rican Physicians Use DynaMed™ to Create National Clinical Guideline for Breast Cancer ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 16, 2012 — DynaMed™, the clinical reference known for timely updates and its strong evidence-based approach, has become more well-known among clinicians and other healthcare professionals and now guideline developers, adapters, implementers and users are taking notice. A recent breast cancer guideline commissioned by Seguro Social (La Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social-CCSS), Costa Rica’s public health system, was completed in a much shorter timeframe, with a smaller staff and for less money by using DynaMed plus two existing guidelines as the starting point.

Guidelines, whether commissioned by a government agency or professional association, are typically developed using a lengthy process to identify the current evidence related to any intervention (diagnosis, treatment, prevention, screening, etc.) for a particular condition, evaluate the current evidence and summarize the evidence. Development can take between 18-24 months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Costa Rican development team was given six months. The guideline was completed in five months and was completed on budget.

Dr. Mario Tristan is the Chairperson and Director-General of the International Health Central American Institute and the Director of Cochrane Central America and the Spanish Caribbean Branch. He, along with the CCSS Medical Advisor, Dr. Anggie Ramirez, was tasked with creating the breast cancer guideline in Costa Rica. He says by using DynaMed guideline developers were able to dramatically reduce the time it takes to perform a comprehensive search of the literature and find relevant studies. “In the course of compiling the resources for clinicians, DynaMed editors and contributors have already searched the available literature and targeted what is clinically relevant. The DynaMed process for critical appraisal and its summaries of clinically relevant results allows guideline developers to spend more time on discourse and guideline creation; shortening the entire guideline timeframe while producing a comprehensive guideline that can better instruct clinicians on how to treat patients and introduce the latest medical evidence into patient care at a more rapid rate.”

The Costa Rican team’s use of DynaMed was presented at the recent Guidelines International Network Conference (G-I-N) piquing the interest of many guideline developers wanting to know more about the methodology used in Costa Rica and evaluating how DynaMed can be used for guideline development support. Dr. Yasser Sami Amer is Founding member, Advisor and Former General Coordinator of the Egyptian Alexandria Centre for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines, Healthcare Quality Directorate of Alexandria University Hospitals (which was the second member to join G-I-N from the African and Arab countries in 2009). Dr. Amer says the Costa Rican case study is a promising example of how DynaMed can impact clinical practice guideline production. “Using the Costa Rican guideline methodology as a model we may well be able to produce more comprehensive clinical guidelines faster and at a fraction of the required resources and we are already planning to use DynaMed to compile updated evidence and recommendations for three of our newest guideline adaptation projects in the field of Child Health Care.”

Dr. Brian Alper, the founder of DynaMed says the benefits don’t stop with guideline creation since DynaMed is also able to disseminate the guidelines to clinicians and provide alerts to guideline developers when new evidence is introduced — evidence that may impact existing guidelines. “There are more than 12,000 clinical practice guidelines in DynaMed. Part of the guideline development process includes plans for publicizing the guidelines once they are created so clinicians know which treatments are preferred and why. Adding guidelines to DynaMed allows more doctors access to the content they provide. As part of its core service to clinicians, DynaMed also publishes practice changing information which will alert guideline developers to new evidence and can be used to determine when updates to existing guidelines are needed.”

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. 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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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com