1/24/2013
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Perry-Lecompton Community Library Joins NEKLS and Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome the Perry-Lecompton Community Library to the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS).

In mid September, Perry-Lecompton Community Library joined the NExpress Shared Regional Catalog, with the addition of 6,600 items. The library is the forty-first public library to join NExpress. The shared catalog, which will hit one million items in 2013 with the addition of its first school library members in April, now services over 110,000 patrons in northeast Kansas.

Brendan Gallagher, CEO, commented on the newest addition to the NEKLS shared Koha system:

“The NExpress shared catalog is the perfect example of how open source can bring people and libraries together. In addition to choosing an open source ILS, Perry-Lecomption has agreed to share and collaborate with area libraries and that makes the team at ByWater Solutions very excited.”

About the NExpress Shared Catalog:

The NExpress automation service enables libraries of all types and sizes to provide rapid and direct access to shared library resources through a technically advanced library automation system at a reduced cost, with training, technical support and software enhancements provided by NEKLS. The NExpress service is an web-based automation service that features flexible searching, item availability status, and the ability for library users to directly place requests for items in the collection of any participating library, with delivery by courier to the patron’s local library. For more information please visit: http://www.nexpresslibrary.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:

With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, support options and development of the enterprise class open source library system, Koha. Offering a 24/7 technical helpline, ByWater Solutions’ clients have the support system they need to make their software work for them. ByWater Solutions pledges to share 100% of all developed code to the Koha community for the strengthening and advancement of the Koha ILS. For more information about ByWater Solutions, please visit: http://www.bywatersolutions.com

Copyright Clearance Center Announces Partnership with
Amigos Library Services

Leading Provider of Licensing and Content Solutions Expands Reach in the Academic Marketplace

Danvers, Mass. – Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and content solutions, has announced a partnership with Amigos Library Services, one of the largest library service networks in the nation.
Amigos is a not-for-profit consortium of more than 800 US libraries across 22 states that provides access to the latest innovations and services, continuing education, vendor discounts, and professional advice to the library community.
This partnership extends Amigos’ content and licensing offerings and gives its members value-added services on top of CCC’s licensing and content solutions. Amigos’ academic library members can now pay for article purchases from CCC’s Get It Now solution through their Amigos Deposit Account. In addition, academic institution members receive a discount on the service fee when they purchase CCC’s Annual Academic Copyright License through Amigos.
Get It Now is an easy-to-implement, cost-effective, always-on service that gives library patrons instant access to unsubscribed journal content from leading publishers. The Annual Copyright License provides users with a single, multi-use license for their institution, allowing faculty, researchers and staff to share content across campus with ease.
“We are pleased to be working with a trusted partner that has a longstanding reputation for providing value to member libraries,” said Miles McNamee, Vice President, Licensing and Business Development, CCC. “Both organizations share a common vision of creating innovative solutions for academic libraries.”
“We’re excited to be offering CCC’s products and services like Get It Now to our member libraries,” said Gerrye McEntire, Manager, Member Discount Services, Amigos Library Services. “Amigos adds value to Get It Now through integrated billing and convenient purchasing.”
CCC enters into partnerships with leading organizations to offer corporate, academic and publisher customers a broad set of solutions that simplify copyright compliance and access to content.

Does your library publish books? Journals? Blogs?
Does your library offer support to writers and others to self-publish?
Does your library create multimedia or digital content?
We want you to tell your story.

Abstract:

Public and Academic libraries have long been the curators of information and are now adding content creation to their services. Each type of library has unique users and content creators, and the process for creating and distributing the content has numerous new electronic publishing and print on demand services. Libraries are seeking advice on how to choose, implement, and support these new endeavors.

The forthcoming open access publication Library Publishing Toolkit will share a broad range of publishing strategies and projects from both academic and public libraries for libraries of various types to to get started or improve efficiency with publishing services. It will provide snapshots of libraries’ publishing and digital content creation projects, identify successful strategies and workflows, and provide general guides to available resources and platforms.

Editorial Board:

Allison Brown, SUNY Geneseo Library Publishing Services Researcher
Cyril Oberlander, SUNY Geneseo Library Director
Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo Head of Technical Services and Collection Development
Patricia Uttaro, Monroe County Library System Director

Publisher: IDS Project Press in collaboration with Rochester Regional Library Council, the Rochester Public Library, and Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo

Expected Publication Date: June 30 2013

Guidelines:

We seek papers that detail a library publishing service or library publishing project’s progression from early planning and strategy stages to implementation, techniques, and project completion.

Desired topics include but are not limited to:
Examples or case studies of specific publishing and digital content creation projects
Publishing service models
Strategies and workflows for publishing, self-publishing, electronic publishing and digital content creation
Experiences with publishing tools and platforms
Design of space dedicated to end-user publishing activities

Submit a 300-500 word abstract or proposal to browna@geneseo.edu. Proposals should include:
Title
Author
Institution
Email Address
300-500 word abstract introducing your library and the publishing project you wish to write about.

Deadline for proposals is February 15th, and writers can expect to receive notification by February 22nd.

Selected papers of 2-5 pages due by April 22nd.

Timeline:

Proposals due: February 15th, 2013
Author notification: February 22nd, 2013
Papers due: April 22nd, 2013
Final Edits due: June 1st, 2013
Publication: June 30, 2013

Further information about ourselves and our project can be found at our website, www.publishingtoolkit.org