7/23/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

The Henry Carter Hull 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 Henry Carter Hull Library, of Clinton, CT. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the HCH Library's 85,000 plus volumes earlier this year and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. Their custom mobile OPAC can be viewed at: http://hch.bywatersolutions.com

Maribeth Breen, Director of The Henry Carter Hull Library, commented about their switch to Koha with ByWater:

"We are all getting used to Koha and feel like any bump we've had along the way has been immediately solved by a staff member at ByWater. Our public LOVES the new catalog and all of the options available to them. We feel like it has been a change for the positive and look forward to diving into the reporting very soon. From the initial contact through the training and the conversion weekend, the ByWater staff has been incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. We are just a month into going live and we are so glad we made the change!"

Nathan Curulla, EVP of ByWater stated:

"I had the opportunity to attend the go live of the Henry Carter Hull Library and was thrilled with the level of excitement and enthusiasm the staff of the library had for their new system. We were able to iron out all of the minor glitches that are inevitable on a go live with ease, and the feedback we got from the patrons was outstanding. We look forward to working with Maribeth and the staff of Henry Carter Hull going forward and I can't wait to visit their library again!"

About The Henry Carter Hull Library:
The mission of the HCH library is to provide an inviting and dynamic environment, where all members of our community may discover both information and inspiration. With its 20,000 available square feet, the has plenty of room for its 85,000-item collection, multiple meeting rooms, a spacious children’s area, ample space for new releases, and audio-visual materials on the first floor, and parking for 80. Upstairs adult services are surrounded with large windows that allow natural light to flow through the building.Your library card entitles you to borrow materials from all public libraries in Connecticut. For more information please visit: http://www.hchlibrary.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/

7/23/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

The Henry Carter Hull 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 Henry Carter Hull Library, of Clinton, CT. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the HCH Library's 85,000 plus volumes earlier this year and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. Their custom mobile OPAC can be viewed at: http://hch.bywatersolutions.com

Maribeth Breen, Director of The Henry Carter Hull Library, commented about their switch to Koha with ByWater:

"We are all getting used to Koha and feel like any bump we've had along the way has been immediately solved by a staff member at ByWater. Our public LOVES the new catalog and all of the options available to them. We feel like it has been a change for the positive and look forward to diving into the reporting very soon. From the initial contact through the training and the conversion weekend, the ByWater staff has been incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. We are just a month into going live and we are so glad we made the change!"

Nathan Curulla, EVP of ByWater stated:

"I had the opportunity to attend the go live of the Henry Carter Hull Library and was thrilled with the level of excitement and enthusiasm the staff of the library had for their new system. We were able to iron out all of the minor glitches that are inevitable on a go live with ease, and the feedback we got from the patrons was outstanding. We look forward to working with Maribeth and the staff of Henry Carter Hull going forward and I can't wait to visit their library again!"

About The Henry Carter Hull Library:
The mission of the HCH library is to provide an inviting and dynamic environment, where all members of our community may discover both information and inspiration. With its 20,000 available square feet, the has plenty of room for its 85,000-item collection, multiple meeting rooms, a spacious children’s area, ample space for new releases, and audio-visual materials on the first floor, and parking for 80. Upstairs adult services are surrounded with large windows that allow natural light to flow through the building.Your library card entitles you to borrow materials from all public libraries in Connecticut. For more information please visit: http://www.hchlibrary.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/

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 23 July 2013

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, is pleased to announce the publication of a special free issue of the Journal of Early American History (JEAH) (www.brill.com/jeah) that focuses on the Two Row Wampum treaty, a historical agreement between the Dutch and the Iroquois that purportedly took place on 21 April 1613 – a date that is based on an allegedly forged document.

On 9 August 2012, the Syracuse Post-Standard revealed that supporters of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign—which draws attention to environmental concerns and native sovereignty rights in light of the Two Row Wampum treaty anniversary—had been contacted by two scholars advising them that the document establishing the date upon which the quadricentennial anniversary was being calculated was a forgery.

Consequently, a debate ensued regarding the authenticity of the document. The public discourse showed a lack of confidence in scholarly inquiry and certain individuals intimated that scholars may be driven more by political concerns than by professional standards.

The editors of the JEAH—Jaap Jacobs, L.H. Roper, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke—were intrigued and troubled by this debate, which raises questions about the wisdom of professional scholars engaging in what might be seen as lobbying activities. The debate seems to question the basis for historical scholarship—documentary-based research versus oral traditions, for example. The most significant concern is that the investigations into what might have happened in 1613 are being overshadowed both by an argument over the authenticity of the Tawagonshi document and by the current political and social significance of the 1613 date as it relates to the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign. To address the historical questions at the heart of the debate, the editors invited Paul Otto, expert on intercultural relations in New Netherland, as co-editor with Jaap Jacobs to produce an issue specially focused on the Tawagonshi and Two Row history.

In publishing this special issue of the JEAH, the intention of the co-editors is not to take sides in the debate but to shed as much light as possible on the historical context of this important anniversary through scholarly inquiry. Different aspects of the presumed 1613 treaty are addressed by experts in the field, including a linguistic analysis of the allegedly forged document, the early years of Dutch trade in New Netherland, Iroquois (or Haundenosaunee) diplomacy and oral tradition, Dutch-indigenous relations, and the history of wampum.

“First, the Tawagonshi document is a forgery and not a later copy of a lost original,” Paul Otto (George Fox University) and Jaap Jacobs (University of St Andrews), co-editors of the special issue, state in summarizing their findings. “Second, whatever agreements or negotiations traders […] may have made with native peoples, these could not be construed as diplomatic treaties between sovereign people. Establishing both of these facts does not, however, discredit the tradition of an agreement between Dutch and Iroquois representatives that later became the basis for English and then American negotiations with the Iroquois.”

View the free special issue here: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/18770703

For more information on this media alert, please contact Nozomi Goto, Editor, at goto@brill.com.

About Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law, among others. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes almost 200 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.