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.

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.

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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