5/9/2013
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ByWater Solutions Welcomes Danielle Elder as a Koha Migrations Specialist

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Danielle Elder as Migrations Specialist. Danielle will join our expert Koha migrations team in assisting new partners in the transition to the Koha open source ILS.

Before finishing her undergraduate degree, Danielle served in the United States Military where she worked with the Site Installation/Division Personnel System (SIPDERS) database as a Personnel Information Systems Management Specialist (PISM). Danielle received her Bachelor’s degree in General Studies and her Masters of Information Science from the University of North Texas. Her library experience began as a paraprofessional at the Cedar Park Public Library. She went on to work at Wells Branch Community Library, in Austin, as a Service and Outreach Librarian, and then on to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission as a Reader’s Services Librarian.

Danielle commented on her recent decision to join ByWater Solutions:

“I am very happy to be a part of the ByWater Solution team. For me, working with the Koha ILS, is like working with the heart of the library. I have been a fan of open source software and the communities that develop these programs for many years and am thrilled to get to help libraries migrate their data to a dynamic and robust open source ILS like Koha.”

“I am excited that Danielle is joining us at ByWater. She brings to the table an in-depth knowledge of public libraries, a love of library technology and a strong customer focus – all of which are great assets for us as we continue to serve our library partners.” commented Joy Nelson, Director of Migrations.

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

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

WorldCat, the most comprehensive online database of resources available through libraries around the world, has reached another major milestone with the addition of its 2 billionth holding.

On Saturday, May 4, at 2:58 a.m. (MDT), the holding symbol for the University of Alberta Libraries, in Edmonton, was set through an automated process to the WorldCat record for the e-book, Evaluation of the City of Lakes Family Health Team Patient Portal Pilot Project: Final Report, published in 2012 by the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research. It was the 2 billionth holding set in WorldCat. The e-book catalog record was created by the Canadian Electronic Book Library, an e-book provider in Canada, and was enhanced through OCLC’s automated authority control processing system.

“University of Alberta is very proud of its longstanding association with WorldCat’s global community, so its library team is naturally thrilled to be lucky enough to share in OCLC’s astonishing achievement,” said Gerald Beasley, recently named Vice Provost and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information created and continuously updated by some 25,000 OCLC member libraries around the world. WorldCat records describe specific works and contain a listing of institutions that own an item, referred to as “holdings.” Institutions use holdings information to create local catalogs, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work.

“It is astounding that the number of holdings in WorldCat has doubled in less than eight years,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. “This is strong testimony to the power of global library collaboration. I want to thank the University of Alberta, and the thousands of librarians and catalogers around the world who are working daily to create this unique and valuable resource for knowledge seekers everywhere.”

WorldCat was created in 1971 so that libraries could share cataloging information from a central database, increasing workflow efficiency and the ability to locate and loan materials. It took the OCLC cooperative almost 34 years, from August 26, 1971 to August 11, 2005, to add 1 billion holdings in WorldCat. It has taken just seven years and eight months to add the next billion holdings.

WorldCat spans six millennia of recorded knowledge, from about 4800 B.C. to the present. It encompasses records for books, serials, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, visual materials, mixed materials and computer files.

In recent years, OCLC has made a series of technological advances that has made it possible to process millions of records and holdings through batchloads. OCLC has also made a concerted effort to partner with national libraries, library agencies, regional metadata hubs and other groups. This has resulted in the loading of national bibliographies and other important collections.

Academic and cultural researchers value WorldCat as much for its depth and distinctiveness as its size. Libraries often hold unique and significant materials, including maps, music, artifacts, theses and other research materials that can be found nowhere else. In a world where general reference, entertainment and news content becomes widely available online, WorldCat helps libraries describe and promote local and specific knowledge far beyond the boundaries of any single institution.

For example, many genealogists value WorldCat as a central source for unique family and local history records. Because WorldCat represents items from more than 170 countries and 470 languages, scholars use the database to locate and borrow items around the world. More than 40 national libraries contribute to WorldCat, including recent additions from Japan, Spain, Israel and China, and over 60 percent of the records in WorldCat are for materials in non-English languages.

OCLC member institutions use a variety of specific services to add, enhance and access WorldCat records, improving workflows and helping libraries save time and money. Anyone can search these collections at www.WorldCat.org. WorldCat.org users can find nearby libraries that hold an item, build personalized lists, easily create citations and post reviews and ratings.

Other public views of WorldCat include WorldCat Identities, which provides summary pages for the name of every person, organization and fictional character in WorldCat (currently around 30 million); WorldCat Genres, which allows users to browse hundreds of genres from WorldCat; and WorldCat Kindred Works, a content-based service that helps users find similar materials of interest. In addition, the WorldCat Live! API provides a real-time stream of newly added records of library collections and published materials to WorldCat.

WorldCat information is also syndicated through relationships with partners such as Google, Goodreads and EasyBib. When searching these and other popular online services, information seekers can connect to local libraries through WorldCat links and data services.

Find more about WorldCat on the OCLC website at www.oclc.org, and watch WorldCat grow as libraries around the world contribute to the database at www.oclc.org/en-US/worldcat/watch-worldcat-grow.html.

Articles from BioOne Online Journals will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service, giving EDS users access to BioOne's high-impact bioscience research journals. The release is below and can also be found here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/BioOne/EDS/prweb10707353.htm.

Thank you,

Lisa

Partnership between EBSCO and BioOne Online Journals Adds Scholarly Biological, Ecological and Environment Sciences Articles to EBSCO Discovery Service™
~ More than 100,000 Scholarly Articles from Bioscience Research Journals
Now Searchable in EDS ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — May 7, 2013 — BioOne Online Journals are now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), from EBSCO Publishing. EBSCO Discovery Service users are able to search more than 100,000 scholarly articles from bioscience research journals in the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service. The addition of this valuable resource adds to the rapidly growing STM content available to EDS users.

BioOne aggregates publications in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. The collection of high-impact bioscience research journals stems from societies, libraries, academe and the private sector – making it an ideal resource for students and researchers. BioOne’s collaboration of publications includes 176 titles from 132 publishers, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research and ecological & biodiversity conservation.

EBSCO Discovery Service customers may use a CustomLink to access full text on the BioOne site. CustomLinks are a feature that dynamically creates links from a result to related information on another web site and is one of many linking options for EDS customers to extend the reach of discovery.

BioOne is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, Nature Publishing, IEEE, ACM and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO, The Hathi Trust and many others.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

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 provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. 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. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO 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:
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Announcing Call for Submissions for Academic Librarians to Receive a Travel Stipend to Attend the Upcoming American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and content solutions, announces the winners of its Conference Scholarship Program for Academic Librarians: Bridgett Birmingham of Florida State University, Katie Hutchinson of Walsh University, Jennifer L. Kegler of SUNY Brockport, and Bing Wang of Georgia Tech University. Each received a travel stipend of $1,500 to attend the Association of College and Research Libraries’ ACRL 2013 conference recently held in Indianapolis.

“I’d never had the opportunity or funding to attend a large scale conference like ACRL,” said Hutchinson. “The funding provided by the scholarship was fantastic because otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to go.”

“We are thrilled to announce the winners of our new scholarship program for academic librarians,” said Tim Bowen, Director, Academic Products & Services, CCC. “We understand how critical and rewarding these industry events can be and believe this program provides librarians with new opportunities for enrichment, while demonstrating commitment to their profession.”

Due to the high number of submissions received prior to ACRL 2013, CCC is currently offering the same program for academic librarians to attend the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference from June 27 to July 2 in Chicago. Applicants must be full-time, permanent staff members or academic librarians currently employed by a US-based academic institution of higher learning. A full list of requirements can be found here.

To apply for the scholarship program, librarians need to submit a response of up to 300 words to a short question. The application deadline is May 20, 2013. Winners will be notified May 31, and scholarship stipends will be issued June 10. CCC encourages librarians who applied for an ACRL scholarship to resubmit their entries for the ALA program.

About Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the rights licensing experts, is a global rights broker for the world’s most sought-after materials, including in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, images, blogs and ebooks. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization, CCC provides smart solutions that simplify the access and licensing of content and let businesses and academic institutions get permission to use copyright-protected materials quickly, while compensating publishers and content creators for the use of their works. We make copyright work. For more information, visit www.copyright.com.

Contacts

Copyright Clearance Center
Craig Sender, 978-646-2502
csender@copyright.com

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