Historical content will be accessible to more people with the agreement between EBSCO Information Services and BiblioLabs. As part of the agreement, EBSCO will sell BiblioLab products, including BiblioBoard Library and BiblioBoard Creator, and metadata from BiblioLab's historical content will be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™.

The release is below and can also be found online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/BiblioBoard/EDS/prweb10960283.htm and on EBSCO's website: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/ebsco-announces-agreement-to-s....

EBSCO Announces Agreement to Sell Products from BiblioLabs and Include Metadata in EBSCO Discovery Service™
~ Agreement Will Make Digital Archives from BiblioLabs Easier to Discover ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 24, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announces an agreement with BiblioLabs that will give more people access to high quality, historical content and enable libraries, museums and other institutions to make digital content from their internal repositories available to others. Metadata from BiblioLab’s historical content will be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™ and EBSCO will sell BiblioLab products, including BiblioBoard Library and BiblioBoard Creator.

BiblioBoard Library is an award-winning content ecosystem that connects library patrons with digital archives from around the world. It includes over 14,000 e-books and consists of millions of pages of high-quality primary source content covering literature, philosophy, history, geography, science and more. In addition to the web version, BiblioBoard Library is available as a native application on a variety of popular tablets (iPad, Kindle Fire HD, Nook, Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy).

Through a highly visual and intuitive interface, BiblioBoard Library provides library patrons with a fun and engaging experience interacting with curated multi-media collections that incorporate books, articles, images, audio and video. BiblioBoard Creator is an easy-to-use and cost effective authoring tool that enables libraries to make available valuable digital assets in their internal repositories to others either for free or for sale via BiblioBoard Library.

The MARC records that are created by BiblioLabs’ team of catalogers will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service, allowing users to find many types of historical material that are virtually indiscoverable, as libraries are not routinely creating MARC records for their digitized content. Users can also easily uncover content by browsing BiblioBoard Library’s BiblioBoard Core content module, which includes historical books, articles, images, photographs, maps, pamphlets and documents as well as streaming audio and video content.

The BiblioBoard Core content module has been expertly organized into more than 200 anthologies and will be updated with new anthologies quarterly. BiblioLabs currently offers two additional modules for purchase, African American History and Folk and Americana. Each features content from highly regarded museum collections. Additional modules will be available for purchase in the future, including Accessible Dissertations, Spanish Language History and Literature, Military History, and Women’s Studies.

For more information on BiblioLabs, go to www.BiblioBoard.com.

About BiblioLabs
BiblioLabs, LLC is a hybrid software-media company founded in 2007, with headquarters in beautiful and historic Charleston, South Carolina. After the successful release of its award winning British Library iPad application, BiblioLabs was inspired to create BiblioBoard, an ecosystem that allows libraries and cultural institutions around the world to be able to curate, share and interactively explore information. BiblioLabs works with leading organizations around the world – such as the Library Publishing Coalition, the British Library and the national libraries of Finland, Spain, Chile and Columbia, among many, many others large and small -- to create widespread commercial access to rare and interesting materials in an innovative way. To learn more about BiblioBoard, visit www.BiblioBoard.com.

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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7/23/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
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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.

North Bethesda, MD, July 18, 2013- Gunnison High School, Gunnison Community Schools, and Crested Butte Community School, located in Gunnison, CO, are now live in the AspenCat LibLime Koha Union Catalog for all collection and patron management services.

The Gunnison High School, Gunnison Community Schools, and Crested Butte Community School staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy ILS system. With the addition of these three schools to CLiC, there are now nearly 700,000 items and close to 400,000 bibliographic records in the CLiC LibLime Koha Union Catalog.

About the Gunnison Watershed School District
The Gunnison Watershed School District serves residents in Gunnison County, Colorado. Located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Gunnison Watershed School District strives to provide an education of exceptional quality by creating a safe environment of mutual respect, educational alternatives, high expectations, and genuine achievement.

About the CLiC Consortium
CLiC, headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, serves over 450 libraries throughout the state. 35 of these libraries are part of the AspenCat LibLime Koha union catalog. Currently the database includes over 660,000 items. Resource sharing is one of the key components of the system with libraries requesting over 1,200 items from each other every month. Requests are growing as more patrons discover how easy it is to request an item not held at his or her home library. CLiC is committed to maintaining AspenCat as a fully featured, patron-focused system. In partnership with the Colorado State Library, AspenCat offers integration with external databases using EZproxy, integration through the State Library’s Plinkit-based web site hosting service, and interconnectivity with SWIFT, the statewide ILL system. AspenCat also currently offers a cooperative purchase for downloadable audio books from Recorded Books and ebooks from the 3M Library Cloud system.

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.