~ EBSCO Information Services and Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) partner to provide the “Information to Inspiration” Fellowship, a unique program to support library professionals interested in informing and inspiring librarians worldwide. ~

Birmingham, Ala. — Dec. 19, 2012 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) are pleased to announce the inaugural “Information to Inspiration” Fellowship. Designed to advance the careers of highly motivated library professionals and the field of librarianship, this unique program will provide up to $4,000 to support a library professional or a team of library professionals interested in conducting research about issues related to management of electronic resources in the ever-evolving information industry.

“Rooted in a shared belief that our individual efforts and leadership can and will have an impact on the field of librarianship, ER&L is pleased and proud to partner with EBSCO to serve as the inaugural launch pad for the EBSCO ‘Information to Inspiration’ Fellowship, an award that will directly fund research projects by library professionals working to advance our field,” said ER&L founder Bonnie Tijerina, head of electronic resources and serials at Harvard University.

Library professionals who wish to be considered for the fellowship must work in an academic library and have more than three years of experience with electronic resources; each applicant must submit a 250-word essay explaining how library professionals and the field of librarianship will benefit from their research on “Measuring and evaluating use, users, and usage.” Some example topics include:
• Practical implementation and support of analysis techniques to increase usage and maximize the value of electronic resources.
• Measuring value or impact of library resources with data.
• Determining return on investment.

Applications will be reviewed by a diverse team of highly respected library and information industry professionals.

In addition to receiving funding to support their research, fellowship winners will be recognized at designated events sponsored by ER&L and/or EBSCO. The first recognition will be at the 2013 ER&L Conference, which will take place March 17–20 in Austin, Texas; if the winner attends the conference, there may be an opportunity to do a brief presentation during a Lighting Talk session.

Click here to apply for the inaugural EBSCO “Information to Inspiration” Fellowship.

About Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L)
Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) is the effort of librarians to improve the way we collect, manage, maintain, assess, and make accessible electronic resources in an ever-changing digital environment. Founded in 2005 by Bonnie Tijerina, head of electronic resources and serials at Harvard University, ER&L is an annual physical and virtual conference focused on practical, tactical, and strategic work by e-resources management and digital services professionals to further the field. More information about ER&L can be found at www.electroniclibrarian.com.

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

North Bethesda, MD –December 19, 2012 – LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Western Nebraska Community College (WNCC), a member of the Pioneer Library Consortium, has successfully migrated to and gone live on LibLime Koha 4.14.

After joining the Pioneer Consortium and LibLime Koha in May 2012, Western Nebraska Community College staff worked with LibLime project management staff on data migration from its legacy Follett Destiny ILS, system configuration, and training.

LibLime Koha 4.14 utilizes the Lucene Solr search engine for faster indexing of batch imports in cataloging, improved facet searching in the OPAC, and better algorithms for controlling relevancy ranking of search results. LibLime Koha 4.14 also includes enhancement to how expired and cancelled holds are managed. The Reports Page has also been updated to allow better access to pre-defined SQL queries.

About Western Nebraska Community College
Western Nebraska Community College is located in Scottsbluff, NE with additional campuses in Sidney, Nebraska and Alliance, Nebraska. WNCC serves over two thousand part-time and full-time students with Associate degree programs in the Arts, Applied Science, Science, Nursing, and Occupational Studies. WNCC strives to be a student centered, open access institution primarily devoted to quality instruction and public service, providing counseling and other student services intended to promote the success of a diverse student population. More information about Western Nebraska Community College can be found at www.wncc.net.

About the Pioneer Consortium
The Pioneer Consortium continues to expand the number of members that share the LibLime Koha union catalog. The successes of the early members of the consortium are noticed by more and more libraries around the state and the consortium membership continues to grow. One of the main attractions is access to the LibLime Koha union catalog.

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.

~ Users Will Have Access to Core Academic Video Collections from INTELECOM through EBSCOhost® ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — December 18, 2012 — Online academic video collections from INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications (INTELECOM) will be available from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO). The agreement will give users access to INTELECOM’s library of core curriculum video collections through EBSCOhost®, while other videos will be included in subject-specific EBSCOhost databases.

Produced by INTELECOM, a non-profit corporation and award-winning producer of instructional media for both classroom and online learning, each video collection offers a comprehensive audiovisual survey of a different core curriculum subject. All videos are closely aligned to core course syllabi and learning outcomes and closed captioned for hearing-impaired audiences.
Core video collections from INTELECOM include:

• Anatomy and Physiology
• Algebra
• Environmental Studies
• Health
• History
• Oceanography
• Philosophy
• Political science
• Psychology
• Sociology

By making the video databases available via EBSCOhost, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world, users will have the ability to customize their searches with a variety of search options and limiters and can utilize the intuitive approach to searching online databases.

Earlier this year, EBSCO and INTELECOM agreed to add metadata for all videos from INTELECOM’s academic video database, the INTELECOM Online Resources Network®, to the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and also allow mutual customers to access the full video database of more than 4,000 video clips and growing; adding a wealth of rich media to EBSCO Discovery Service.

About INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, a non-profit corporation operated by a joint power authority of 31 California community colleges, is a premier producer of curriculum-based academic video for online, distance and classroom learning. For more information about INTELECOM, you can visit their website at www.intelecom.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 e-books. The company provides more than 350 databases and more than 350,000 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