2/7/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

NoveList® Select Enhanced Content Added to the Koha Open Source ILS

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, would like to join the Los Gatos Library in thanking NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Publishing, for assisting in adding NoveList content to the Koha open source ILS.

Henry Bankhead, Interim Town Librarian at Los Gatos Library stated:

“Los Gatos library is exceedingly pleased that Duncan Smith, NoveList and EBSCO were willing to contribute to the Koha development via ByWater Solutions that allows Koha libraries to integrate content from NoveList Select to add richness to our patrons’ OPAC experience. This enhanced content adds reviews from Goodreads, up to date series information, similar titles and authors as well as links to NextReads newsletters and more. Because of this integration this content is available right in our library catalog and is available to any NoveList Select customer using the Koha integrated library system. We were very thankful that Duncan recognized that this integration would be a win-win for EBSCO, for the Koha community, for Librarians and most importantly for library patrons. We hope that this example set by EBSCO will encourage other vendors to contribute to the development.”

Duncan Smith, Vice President of NoveList, shared his thanks with us:

“Thanks to the efforts of ByWater Solutions, libraries that choose Koha as their catalog solution can now easily integrate the rich content from NoveList Select into their online catalog and put expert reading recommendations and other expanded content into the place where it is most visible to library patrons. This is a great example of how libraries and their readers benefit when companies work together to support library success.”

Nicole C. Engard, Vice President of Education at ByWater Solutions thanks all of those involved:

“When educating librarians about open source, I always stress how choosing Koha and open source opens you up to all kinds of new freedoms. This partnership between ByWater, Los Gatos Library and NoveList shows how multiple groups can come together to improve an open source product for the benefit of everyone using it.”

About Los Gatos Library:

Los Gatos Library, located in Los Gatos, CA., serves a population of over 30,000 residents and houses a collection of more than 100,000 volumes. The library sponsors many community activities aimed at connecting people to the world of information. Programming is offered as a library resource that provides information, education, recreation and enrichment to all. For more information please visit: http://www.losgatosca.gov

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 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

North Bethesda, MD, February 6, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Millennia Atlantic University (MAU), located in Doral, Florida, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.14.

The University Library will take advantage of the Solr search engine in 4.14, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, and additional functionality for expired and cancelled holds. As with all versions of LibLime Koha since 4.8, the entire application resides in the Plack environment for enhanced performance.

About Millennia Atlantic University
Millennia Atlantic University is an institution of higher learning with undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, human resource management, healthcare administration, health information management, and paralegal studies. Millennia Atlantic University has an average class size of twelve students, which allows for close student-instructor relationships and a personalized academic experience. More information about MAU can be found at http://www.maufl.edu.

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.

Below is a release on two new e-book subscription collections from EBSCO: EngineeringCore and ITCore. They each include thousands of e-book titles about various engineering and IT disciplines to serve the learning and research needs of engineers and technology professionals.

EBSCO Publishing Creates E-book Subscription Collections for Engineering and Technology Professionals
~ EngineeringCore™ and ITCore™ E-book Subscription Collections Provide Access
to Thousands of E-book Titles for Learning and Research ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — February 5, 2013 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released EngineeringCore™ and ITCore™ , two e-book subscription collections designed to support the learning and reference needs of engineering and technology professionals. The collections are available as annual subscriptions that give users unlimited access to all titles.

EngineeringCore provides professionals with an easy way to access e-books specific to their research and learning needs. The collection offers more than 4,200 e-book titles spanning all major engineering disciplines and covering top subjects such as biotechnology, energy sciences, industrial safety, innovation & technological advancement, materials, optics & photonics, robotics and more.

The ITCore collection contains more than 3,500 titles to support all IT needs, from expert-level programming and cybersecurity to systems administration and web design. Subjects include: mobile devices, networks and platforms; LANs and MANs; open source software; E-commerce; scripting and programming languages; and data warehousing. ITCore also features certification exam preparation guides as well as basic guides and tutorials for desktop applications and software to support staff.

The collections include thousands of titles from leading publishers, with new titles added on a quarterly basis. Users can print, email and save chapters, or transfer them to a number of e-book readers and mobile devices including the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook and Sony Digital Book. The collections provide a robust e-book experience that includes the ability to search alongside EBSCO’s industry-leading magazine and journal collections, create and add notes and bookmarks, as well as save research for future reference.

EBSCO Publishing Vice President of Product Management, Tad Goltra, says EngineeringCore and ITCore, like the previously released BusinessCore, are important additions to EBSCO’s e-book collections. “EngineeringCore and ITCore provide customers with access to broad subscription collections that can serve as the foundation of their working library. Customers also have the ability to add individual titles to their collections on a permanent basis, giving them the flexibility they need to assemble their optimal collection.”

As with all e-books available from EBSCO, EngineeringCore and ITCore will integrate seamlessly with all EBSCOhost® content. The EngineeringCore and ITCore subscription collection may also be integrated into organizational portals and Intranets, learning management systems (LMSs), as well as mapped to an organization’s key competencies allowing users to have easy access to relevant content wherever and whenever it is needed.

More information about e-book subscription collections is available at: www.ebscohost.com/ebooks.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is the world’s premier research database and e-book provider aggregator serving the content needs of corporations, associations and organizations of all types. EBSCO offers more than 350,000 e-books and a suite of more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases providing content from tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers. Databases provide information for areas ranging from research & development and corporate learning to departmental and industry-specific topics. EBSCO’s product lines include proprietary databases such as: Business Source® Corporate Plus™, Academic Search® R&D, Energy & Power Source™, Sustainability Reference Center™, and Biomedical Reference Collection™, as well as dozens of leading licensed databases. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world and may be integrated into corporate intranets and applications and used via mobile devices. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing website 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.

EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
###
For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

The BEA 2013 "new print title showcase" catalog features THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI isbn 9780615685434, "KIRKUS INDIE REVIEW" says "this book offers a message of hope."

Libraries and universities can buy the print book from Ingram, and Ingram has the E-book version isbn 0615685439 for purchase and in "new content lending" program.

Tags for this book include: pink-slip serendipity, Cracker country USA folklore, love story, mystic threads, destiny driven—look for THE HAUNTING AND PARADISE TAXI in display ad March 3rd "NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW."

CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY ANNOUNCES
$1.5 MILLION GRANT
FROM THE LILLIAN GOLDMAN CHARITABLE TRUST
TO ESTABLISH THE LILLIAN GOLDMAN REFERENCE SERVICES DIVISION

New York -- The Center for Jewish History in New York City, one of the world’s foremost centers for the intellectual and cultural exploration of the modern Jewish experience, has announced a $1.5 million grant from The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust. In honor of this support, the Center will establish The Lillian Goldman Reference Services Division.

The new Reference Services Division will adjoin the existing Lillian Goldman Reading Room, which serves as the gateway to the archival and library collections of the Center for Jewish History’s five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. With a renewed focus on the level of services it provides to visitors, the Center, located at 15 West 16th Street, will create a state-of-the-art environment for the study and exploration of Jewish history.

“This remarkable support will allow us to enhance the research experiences of thousands of scholars, students and members of the general public who come to the Center from around the world to use the partners’ collections. It will help us to continue advancing the ways in which libraries and learning institutions can best serve 21st-century publics,” stated Michael S. Glickman, Chief Operating Officer, Center for Jewish History.

The grant will support a series of changes to the space—including improvements that will help researchers to seamlessly integrate digital tools into their work—and new resources for students, teachers, scholars and other patrons who come to the Center to conduct research. At the Center, documentary filmmakers shoot rare newspapers from 18th-century Austria; artisan bookbinders develop new uses of forgotten techniques; photographers learn from Roman Vishniac’s original prints; and writers explore the unpublished works of Henry Roth. Visitors to the Center discover artifacts of individual experience—the lifeblood of the partners’ collections—and page through original records to uncover the unpublished, raw material in the loose sheets of human history.

“As an institution that is committed to education, engagement and open access to information—and one that serves both local and global communities—the Center creates opportunities for diverse audiences not only to engage with history, but also to consider its relevance to the present. The Lillian Goldman Reference Services Division will be integral to illuminating history for visitors to the Center. This support also reinvigorates Lillian Goldman’s strong legacy as an ardent supporter of institutions dedicated to higher learning and scholarship. We extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to Amy Goldman Fowler, Vice Chairman of the Center’s Board, for this significant grant,” Glickman added.

THE LILLIAN GOLDMAN READING ROOM & THE LILLIAN GOLDMAN REFERENCE SERVICES DIVISION
The Lillian Goldman Reading Room, situated underneath a skylight two stories above, brings together researchers from around the world to explore the Jewish past in a room whose perimeter is lined with open-stack material. The Reading Room is open to the public six days a week. Anyone can request access to a vast collection consisting of over 500,000 volumes and more than 100 million archival documents. Included in the collections housed at the Center are materials in 23 languages and 52 alphabet systems that represent people of different geographic, experiential, religious and secular origins. Through public computer terminals, The Lillian Goldman Reference Services Division will give visitors access to the Center’s centralized Online Public Access Catalog (www.search.cjh.org), and a robust and growing collection of electronic databases, indexes, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference works.

BACKGROUND ON THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
The Center for Jewish History in New York City is a multifaceted organization that serves as a cultural institution, research facility and destination for the exploration of history and heritage. It is home to American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Spanning more than 600 years of history, the partners’ collections include books, documents, photographs, ritual objects, artwork, film, recordings and textiles. The Center offers cultural programming, exhibitions, symposia, lectures and performances, as well as research facilities and a genealogy institute. For more information, visit www.cjh.org.
# # #

PRESS CONTACTS:
Nicole Straus Public Relations
Nicole Straus, 631-369-2188, 917-744-1040, nicole@nicolestrauspr.com
Margery Newman, 212-475-0252, MargeryNewman@aol.com