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    May 6th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Duluth, GA — May 6, 2013

    Caldwell County Public Library has gone live with Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal Consortium. Equinox Software provided data migration and staff

    training and will continue to provide system administration and technical support for the growing consortium.

    Caldwell County Public Library consists of three branches located in Lenoir, Granite Falls, and Hudson. They are the 13th library system to join NC

    Cardinal adding 73, 000 bibliographic items and more than 36,000 patrons to the consortium. The online catalog for entire consortium can be viewed at
    www.nccardinal.org.

    According to Equinox Project Manager, Shae Tetterton, “It was an honor to work with Sarah Greene at Caldwell County and, as always, the wonderful

    folks at the State Library. The growth of this new consortium is very exciting to me, especially being a North Carolinian myself. I look forward to my

    continued work with the NC Cardinal group.”

    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

    About Evergreen

    Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed with the intent of providing an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high

    transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today,

    almost 1200 libraries across the US and Canada are using Evergreen including King Country Public Library, SC Lends, and B.C Sitka. For more information

    about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

    Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571

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    May 6th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    The American College of Physicians and DynaMed intend on sharing evidence-based content to take advantage of shared expertise. The details are below. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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    EBSCO Announces Intent to Collaborate with the American College of Physicians to Improve Physician Access to Evidence-Based Resources
    ~ EBSCO Intends to Collaborate with American College of Physicians to bring Expertise, Content and Multimedia to EBSCO’s Evidence-Based Clinical Point-of-Care Resources ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — May 6, 2013 — EBSCO announces the intent to collaborate with the American College of Physicians (ACP) around evidence-based expertise. If formalized, the multi-year collaboration will bring thousands of American College of Physician images, figures and tables to EBSCO’s evidence-based clinical resources such as DynaMed™. Under the terms of the intended collaboration, EBSCO would provide ACP access to DynaMed’s evidence-based clinical summaries and access to the systematic literature surveillance that has distinguished DynaMed among other point-of-care resources.

    EBSCO and ACP plan to share content in order to take advantage of shared expertise in evidence-based clinical content. DynaMed will make available to ACP its systematic literature surveillance and guideline updates, and ACP may incorporate some of DynaMed’s content into some educational resources.

    EBSCO Senior Vice President of Product Management Stratton Lloyd says study after study shows that DynaMed has created a methodology to provide both currency and relevancy and the intended collaboration with ACP adds additional expertise and unique content. “The intended collaboration represents a joint effort between EBSCO and the American College of Physicians to push, promote and prescribe an approach to evidence-based medicine that benefits clinicians, patients and the practice of medicine.”

    The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization, representing 133, 000 internal medicine physicians (internists). Internists are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness. ACP also publishes Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the five most widely cited peer reviewed medical journals in the world.

    ACP Vice President of Publishing, Diane Scott-Lichter, says the intended collaboration will be mutually beneficial to both EBSCO and ACP. “ACP and DynaMed have a commitment to evidence-based medicine and by sharing expertise we hope to contribute to improving the practice of medicine and the care of patients.”

    About EBSCO
    EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and 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. 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™, Social Work 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 website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. Follow DynaMed on Twitter at @DynaMed_POC (https://twitter.com/DynaMed_POC).

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