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    February 21st, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    A new partnership between NoveList and Evergreen will enable libraries to reach more readers as NoveList Select is now integrated into the Evergreen ILS. Please see the release below for more details.

    NoveList Select™ Expands ILS Partnerships to Include Evergreen
    ~ New Partnership Enables Libraries to Reach More Readers ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — February 21, 2013 — NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Publishing is announcing a new ILS integration with NoveList Select™, its catalog enrichment resource. NoveList Select is now integrated into the Evergreen ILS – enabling more libraries to make their library catalog a robust tool full of rich information for the readers.

    At a recent Evergreen developer ‘Hackfest’ event sponsored by Equinox Software, Inc., Equinox developers created code for a new feature in the master code of Evergreen which makes it easy to turn NoveList Select on and requires no additional development time for libraries. This new feature enables mutual customers to enhance their catalog so it becomes a tool for readers to discover great books. Vice President of NoveList, Duncan Smith says this implementation with Evergreen is part of a continuing effort to improve the accessibility of NoveList’s reader focused content. “We are committed to working with as many partners as necessary to make NoveList Select a successful tool for all libraries. This collaboration is another step to help libraries transform their catalogs into a place where readers can discover great books.”

    NoveList Select is the catalog enrichment component of NoveList readers’ advisory resources. This component pulls NoveList content into a library’s catalog. NoveList Select makes reading recommendations, series information, book discussion guides, Goodreads ratings and reviews, library newsletters and events available to library patrons from within the catalog record.

    NoveList Select works with many major vendors and systems to ensure the content is seamlessly integrated into a library’s catalog. A list of ILS systems that NoveList Select is already integrated with is available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/our-products/novelist-select-ils.

    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 375 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.

    About Equinox Software, Inc.
    Founded in 2007 by the original Evergreen developers, Equinox remains deeply committed to being an active and enthusiastic voice in the open source community. Equinox's unparalleled depth of knowledge regarding libraries and library data is reflected in our services which include implementation, development, support, hosting, and educational services for both Evergreen and Koha software. For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

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

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    February 20th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    North Bethesda, MD, February 20, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces Fort Scott Public Library has joined the SEKnFind union catalog and is live on the system.

    Fort Scott Public Library is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS). SEKLS serves member libraries in over 60 communities in Southeast Kansas and several of those members participate in the SEKnFind union catalog.

    The SEKnFind union catalog has over 423,000 bibliographic records and over 698,000 items records. Since 2008, LibLime has worked closely with SEKLS to migrate its member libraries to the union catalog. SEKnFind membership continues to grow as the Consortium is working with many more Southeast Kansas libraries.

    About Fort Scott Public Library
    During the Civil War, Fort Scott, Kansas was a key city for the U.S. military as it served as the U.S. Army district headquarters, training center, and recruitment station. Following the Civil War, Fort Scott became a premiere city of the frontier and one of the largest cities in eastern Kansas. Following strong population growth, industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated $18,000 to Fort Scott to fund the Fort Scott Public Library. Construction began in 1901 and continued until 1904. In 1987, the Public Library was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    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.

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    February 19th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    ~ Sets of Titles Aim to Meet Library’s Needs for In-Demand Topics ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — February 19, 2013 — Librarians have a convenient way to begin or expand their e-book collection with 23 new eBook Subjects Sets from EBSCO Publishing. The eBook Subject Sets are prepackaged sets of titles from leading publishers in specific, high-interest topic areas chosen to meet libraries’ needs while simplifying collection development.

    This latest release of eBook Subject Sets addresses the demand from libraries for more offerings in religion and theology; ethnic and cultural studies; literary criticism and writing; and engineering. The new eBook Subject Sets are:

    • Nursing
    • Healthcare Knowledge & Management
    • Allied Health
    • Engineering
    • College Success
    • Leadership & Management
    • Accounting & Finance
    • Environmental
    • Networking & Security
    • Defense & Security
    • Personal & Home Computing
    • Contemporary Social Issues
    • Career
    • Criminal Justice
    • Literary Criticism & Writing
    • Education
    • Biology & Life Sciences
    • American Contemporary Issues
    • Ethnic & Cultural Studies
    • Psychology
    • Religion & Theology
    • Energy & Green Technologies
    • Computer Science

    The eBook Subject Sets are created by EBSCO’s Collection Development Team of librarians and include titles published within the past two years. For more information, visit www.ebscohost.com/ebooks.

    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 375 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

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    February 19th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    The release below details information about how evidence-based medicine is expanding to diagnosis decision-making through the integration of DynaMed and Isabel.

    Expanded DynaMed™ and Isabel Relationship Creates Powerful Integration of Diagnosis and Treatment Information Tools
    ~ Evidence-Based Medicine Expands to Differential Diagnosis through Integration ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — February 18, 2013 — The growing relationship between two valuable resources that provide vital point-of-care information to healthcare providers has the potential to significantly impact the quality of patient care. The integration and a new reselling agreement between DynaMed™ , the premier evidence-based clinical information resource and Isabel Healthcare, which produces the highly respected differential diagnosis tool Isabel, seamlessly extends evidence-based medicine into diagnosis decision-making.

    Extending evidence-based medicine into diagnosis will give clinicians key information necessary to help differentiate between the diagnoses suggested by Isabel and to decide on the next steps. Mutual customers can link from Isabel to access the evidence-based information in DynaMed, and it is now even easier for customers to acquire and integrate the two resources. The recently expanded partnership between DynaMed and Isabel allows healthcare organizations to easily purchase Isabel directly from EBSCO Publishing, the parent company of DynaMed. The strength of these combined resources along with DynaMed’s and Isabel’s ability to integrate into most Electronic Health Record systems, make it a convenient and indispensible tool for answering most clinical questions during practice.

    Isabel is the industry-leading diagnosis decision support system designed to help broaden the differential and provide testing and treatment information at the point of need. For a given set of signs and symptoms, Isabel presents the clinician with a list of likely diagnoses to consider, and each diagnosis is linked to knowledge to help with further investigation, potential testing and treatment. The Isabel system has been extensively validated and is currently being used by leading healthcare systems to improve efficiency in decision making.

    Jason Maude, founder of Isabel Healthcare, explained the power of the integrations between Isabel and DynaMed. “The DynaMed editorial team creates robust, evidence-based content that perfectly complements the differential diagnosis content in Isabel. The seamless integration between the two products creates a powerful synergy to improve efficiency in diagnosis decision making. As the first and most important decision made about the patient, getting the correct diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible enhances outcomes and reduces costs. The new platform also means that the content from other EBSCO products can be integrated and drawn to the clinician’s attention when needed.”

    DynaMed Editor-in-Chief, Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH, FAAFP, says this relationship with Isabel supports DynaMed’s core mission. “Providing clinicians the most useful information at the point of care is the goal of DynaMed and this partnership allows clinicians even more in-the-moment ways to bring evidence-based medicine into their practice.”

    DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.

    Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

    For more information about Isabel and its integration with DynaMed, visit www.ebscohost.com/biomedical-libraries/isabel.

    About Isabel Healthcare
    Isabel Healthcare Inc. was founded in 2000 by Jason Maude and is named after Maude’s daughter who almost died after a potentially fatal illness was not recognized. For over 10 years, Isabel Healthcare has provided the Isabel diagnosis decision support system to hospitals, physician practices and individual physicians and gained peer reviewed validation and unmatched experience. Today, Isabel is the only diagnosis decision support system fully integrated with EMR and is used by thousands of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and students world-wide, providing diagnostic support and education by broadening their differential diagnostic considerations. Connect with us at info@isabelhealthcare.com, 734-332-0612 or www.isabelhealthcare.com or www.twitter.com/isabelhealth to learn more.

    About EBSCO Publishing
    EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 375 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

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    February 18th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    The new literary fiction print THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI ISBN 9780615685434 author, Cynthia Lynn, has travel books in Libraries worldwide according to WorldCat.org. Her newest travel series NO MORE HOTELS will be published as E-books. She is writing the first E-book NO MORE HOTELS IN PARIS and the second book NO MORE HOTELS IN ROME, and both E-books are expected to be published in late 2014 on KINDLE and KOBO.

    Author Cynthia Lynn's page turner print literary fiction THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI (ISBN 9780615685434) is available to Libraries through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and Libraries can buy the E-book version through Ingram and through Ingram's E-content platform.

    About THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI, "KIRKUS INDIE REVIEW" offers a brief book description, and says, "In 1989, 25-year-old Clarissa Max loses her job, leaves New York City and heads south. After she drives into a ditch in Citrusville, a small town in central Florida, she decides to stay on and work as a freelance reporter. While struggling to get over an affair, she starts the Literary Club at the local public library, and befriends several lively, intriguing older citizens. They include Nellie, a wise woman who reads romances; Henry, who regrets his estrangement from his adult son; Violet, who asks Clarissa to be a go-between in her extramarital affair; the pushy, talky Letty; and the mysterious Max, who haunts Clarissa’s thoughts. The novel’s promising message—that life presents unexpected detours, but always provides the right people at the right time..."

    Regarding more about THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI (ISBN 9780615685434), "KIRKUS INDIE REVIEW" adds, "...features lovely, poetic phrases such as “cicada night” and “the pad of paws followed me..."

    THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI (ISBN 9780615685434) literary fiction print novel is featured in the BEA 2013 "new print title showcase," and upcoming on March 3rd, 2013 there is a display ad in "THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW."

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