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    July 31st, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    7/31/2013
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    The Corona Public Library Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Corona Public Library, of Corona, CA. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

    ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Cornona Public Library’s 140,000 plus volumes earlier this year and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. Their custom OPAC can be viewed at: http://corona.bywatersolutions.com.

    Chris Tina Smith, Library Supervisor at the Corona Public Library, commented about their migration to Koha with ByWater:

    “ByWater has been great to work with. We had a really short timeline to make the transition from our old ILS to Koha and the whole staff at ByWater worked with us to make sure we done with time to spare. With the onsite training, library staff were ready to go on our go-live date.”

    Chris Dixon, Technical Services for Corona also commented on the transition to Koha:

    “The Corona Public Library went live about a month ago and we are very happy with Koha.  When searching, it is very refreshing to use an ILS that is intuitive and displays relevant results in a logical manner.  The ByWater staff have been extremely supportive and helpful through the migration process and have displayed their creativity and expertise when solving issues that have come up during this transition phase from our old ILS.”

    About Corona Public Library:

    The Corona Public Library welcomes and supports all people in the enjoyment of reading and pursuit of lifelong learning. Working together, we strive to provide access to information, ideas and knowledge through books, technology, programs, services and other resources. We believe in the freedom to read, to learn and to discover. We see the Corona Public Library as the vital center for informational and educational services, programs and cultural activities in the city by creating an open atmosphere, embracing new ideas and changes, and by making use of developing technologies and training staff to implement those services. For more information please visit: http://www.coronapubliclibrary.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:

    ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/

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    July 31st, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    North Bethesda, MD, July 31, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Rocky View School District, located in Alberta, Canada, has finished migrating the final libraries to LibLime Koha 4.14. With the last group of school libraries to join and go live on LibLime Koha, the entire school district is now live in the LibLime Koha 4.14 union catalog.

    Rocky View School District has been working with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training for the past year and a half. With the completion of the latest group of libraries, the full union catalog now contains 48 locations, nearly 210,000 bibliographic records, over 588,000 items, and over 27,000 patrons.

    About The Rocky View School District
    Rocky View Schools serves residents to the west, north, and east of the City of Calgary. The jurisdiction provides educational services to over 18,000 public students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Rocky View Schools is the fifth-largest school board in Alberta, employing more than 2,000 staff.

    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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    July 25th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Also Announcing Call for Submissions for Academic Librarians to Receive a Travel Stipend to Attend the Upcoming Charleston Conference

    DANVERS, Mass.- Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work for everyone, announces the winners of its Conference Scholarship Program for Academic Librarians: Emily Chan, San Jose State University; Angela Grogan, Westminster College; Daniel Huang, Lehigh University; and Deanna Munson, Crown College. Each received a travel stipend of $1,500 to attend the American Library Association Annual Conference recently held in Chicago.

    “We understand how critical and rewarding academic librarian industry events can be,” said Tim Bowen, Director, Academic Products & Services, CCC. “And we believe that our scholarship program provides librarians with new opportunities for enrichment, while demonstrating commitment to their profession.”

    CCC is currently offering the same program for academic librarians to attend the Charleston Conference from November 6-9 in Charleston, SC. Applicants must be full-time, permanent staff 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 Sept. 20, 2013. Winners will be notified by Sept. 30, and scholarship stipends will be issued by Oct. 18. CCC encourages librarians who applied for an ALA scholarship to resubmit their entries for the Charleston program.

    About Copyright Clearance Center
    Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the rights licensing expert, 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 using their works. We make copyright work. For more information, visit www.copyright.com.

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    July 25th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    North Bethesda, MD, July 25, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Hussian School of Art has selected LibLime Academic Koha 5.4 as their new ILS.

    Staff from the Hussian School of Art will work with LibLime Project Management in the upcoming months to migrate data to the LibLime Academic Koha 5.4 platform. The Hussian School of Art looks forward to taking advantage of the rich functionality in LibLime Koha 5.4 including authority control, RDA support, the Solr search engine, fully faceted searching, and GetIt acquisitions. The Hussian School of Art will also contribute to the sponsorship of new functionality in LibLime Academic Koha.

    As with earlier releases, all new functionality in LibLime Academic Koha continues to run in the Plack environment for increased performance.

    About Hussian School of Art
    The Hussian School of Art was founded in 1946 with the support of John Hussian, a respected member of Philadelphia’s art community and lecturer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Since then, the Hussian School of Art has continued to grow and achieve professional recognition. The School currently offers programs in digital media, graphic design, and visual communications while it strives to inspire creativity in art, in education, in professional endeavors, and in life through collegiate-level education in art.

    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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    July 25th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Content from Casalini Libri, the leading supplier of European books, journals, digital content and bibliographical data to libraries and agencies throughout the world, is now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service. An agreement between EBSCO Information Services and Casalini Libri will add metadata from Casalini Libri's extensive Torrossa.it platform to EDS, including the full-text content of more than 160 publishers primarily from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Greece.

    The release is below and is also online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/CasliniLibri/EDS/prweb10962777.htm and on the EBSCO website at: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/agreement-between-caslini-libr....

    Agreement Between Casalini Libri and EBSCO Adds Torrossa Collections to EBSCO Discovery Service™
    ~Collections Include Publications from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Greece ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — July 25, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Casalini Libri have developed a new partnership enabling content from Casalini Libri’s extensive Torrossa.it platform to be searched within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Casalini Libri is a leading supplier of European books, journals, digital content and bibliographical data to libraries and agencies throughout the world. Torrossa hosts the full text content of over 160 publishers primarily from romance language countries.

    The agreement between EBSCO and Casalini Libri will add metadata from the following Torrossa.it collection’s into EDS: Editoria Italiana Online (EIO), Edición Española Online (EEO), Fabrizio Serra Editore e-journal collections, Franco Angeli e-journal collections, Olschki ebook and e-journal collections, Ecole Française de Rome, BIZ - Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli. The content represents an expansive range of subject areas such as: social sciences, history, geography, biography, arts, philosophy, psychology, pure sciences, religion, literature and applied sciences.

    The addition of the Casalini Libri metadata will benefit EBSCO Discovery Service users in Europe and all over the world. EBSCO is constantly expanding to fulfill the needs of all of their users and EDS customers can include metadata from their own unique collections, including their catalog (OPAC), Institutional Repositories, databases, archival collections and more.

    Casalini Libri is part of a growing list of 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 Casalini Libri
    Since its foundation in the late 1950’s, Casalini Libri SpA. has been dedicated to the supply of cataloguing and shelf-ready services, books and journals to libraries and institutions worldwide.
    Since its outset Casalini Libri has worked closely with libraries and publishers to develop customized supply and library services that suit the tailored needs of our customers around the world. The Casalini Libri Digital Division, established in January 2000 following an international pilot project,, offers innovative electronic publishing services to the highest industry standards, collaborating with Italian and international publishers to create and distribute digital publications. The Casalini Torrossa platform, www.torrossa.it, hosts, to-date, 15000 ebooks, and 650 ejournals from 160 publishers and new content is added every week. The company, headquartered in Fiesole (Florence, Italy), adheres to the ISO 9000 Quality Management System.

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (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 nearly 450,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. 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:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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