Brill adds the journal Climate Law to its publishing programme, effective immediately.

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, adds the peer-reviewed journal Climate Law from IOS Press to its growing International Environmental Law portfolio. Climate Law is an international journal on climate change and the law. Its editorial board includes the field's leading academics and practitioners, and publishes peer-reviewed articles on legal and interdisciplinary topics. It has a substantial book review section and appears quarterly.

The journal fits well with Brill’s prestigious list in International Law under the Martinus Nijhoff imprint. It equally strengthens Brill’s position as a scholarly publisher in the niche area of environmental law and climate change.

Effective immediately, Brill assumes publishing responsibilities for the journal title. As of 1 September 2013, the title will be available via Brill’s customary distribution channels. To ensure a smooth transition of the journal, the online version will continue to be hosted on the IOS Press platform until the end of 2013.

Volume 4 will be published by Brill in 2014 and, together with the back volumes, will be made available through the Brill Online Books and Journals platform. More information on the journal and pricing can be found shortly at: brill.com.

For more information on the acquisition, contact Marie Sheldon, Publisher International Law and International Relations, sheldon@brill.com or + 1 (617) 263 2323, ext. 138.

For customer queries please contact your regular distributor or directly contact Brill sales and customer services for journals: brill@turpin-distribution.com, T: +44 (0)1767 604 954.

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.

About IOS Press
Commencing its publishing activities in 1987, IOS Press serves the information needs of scientific and medical communities worldwide. IOS Press now publishes more than 100 international journals and approximately 120 book titles each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences.

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Seven New Libraries Join VOKAL With ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Vernon Free, Westford, Weathersfield Proctor, Quenchee, Wilder, Haston, and Rockingham Free Libraries to the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL). All seven libraries are now live on the Koha integrated library system through VOKAL.

VOKAL now has over 40 libraries using the system which has nearly 895,000 items available to 87,000 patrons. The VOKAL shared catalog can be searched at http://catalog.kohavt.org.

Richard Pritsky, Kim Peine & Wendy Hysko from the VOKAL executive team shared their excitement over these new additions:

“We’re thrilled that we’ve had ByWater as a partner since 2009 to support us as the first Vermont statewide library consortium. In that time we’ve grown to 43 libraries with more scheduled through 2014. Sharing our Koha system with other libraries across the state has created a dynamic community!”

About the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL):

The Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL), is a project of the Green Mountain Library Consortium dedicated to creating a shared catalog and Integrated Library System.

In 2007, the Stowe Free Library, the Carpenter-Carse Library (Hinesburg), and the Kimball Public Library (Randolph) joined with Sheila Kearns of the Vermont Department of Libraries to explore options for an ILS system to replace Follett. They decided on Koha, and in May of 2008, this team became VOKAL. For more information about VOKAL, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/vokalvtpublic/home

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:

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

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Duluth, GA —August 9, 2013

Equinox Software is proud to announce that Albemarle Regional Library has gone live on Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal consortium. Equinox Software provides system administration and technical support to the entire NC Cardinal Consortium and oversaw both data migration and staff training for the newest member libraries.

Albemarle Regional Library has seven branches across four North Carolina Counties and a regional office that serves the entire system. They are the fifteenth library system to go live as part of NC Cardinal, the state-wide resource sharing initiative of the North Carolina State Library. The online catalog for the entire consortium can be viewed at www.nccardinal.org.

Shae Tetterton, Equinox Project Manager says, “Watching NC Cardinal grow this year has been very exciting and Albemarle is a wonderful addition to this already strong consortium. I must also give the NC State Library folks kudos for sending several staff out to the branches to make sure the go live was as smooth as possible.”

“We are thrilled that the library will be able to join a growing consortium of North Carolina public libraries and be able to offer resources that may otherwise be out of reach to our patrons,” says Gary Hoyle, Regional Library Director.

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

North Bethesda, MD, August 7, 2013- Gilpin Public Library, located in Blackhawk, CO is now live in the AspenCat LibLime Koha Union Catalog for all collection and patron management services.

The Gilpin Public Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy ILS system to the LibLime Koha application. With the addition of Gilpin Public Library, there are now over 720,000 items and nearly 430,000 bibliographic records in the CLiC AspenCat Union Catalog.

About Gilpin County Public Library
Gilpin County Public Library offers a weekly Children’s Story Hour, an Artist-in-Residence Program every summer, a Public Notary, free Internet connectivity, and a meeting room available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Gilpin County Public Library is proud to offer prompt and friendly service in a welcoming environment, providing access to current sources of information using contemporary technologies, promoting a love of reading and an interest in books as sources of information and entertainment, aiding in the preservation of Gilpin County’s rich heritage, and responding to the dynamics of our changing community.

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 700,000 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. For more information, please contact Shannon O’Grady at 303-422-1150 or SOGrady@clicweb.org.

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.

BETHLEHEM, Pa., August 6, 2013 — In a groundbreaking pilot project with Lock Haven University, Backstage Library Works has provided the university’s archives with archival processing services, allowing researchers access to the Mary Ward Collection which spans six decades from the 1930s through the 1980s.

The Mary Ward collection was processed on-site at the folder level, labeled to describe contents and dates, and rehoused in new boxes. Final processing produced three linear feet, plus an eight-page finding aid that was converted to EAD format.

Backstage’s archival processing project manager, Rob Paustian states:

"A growing number of unprocessed records within an institution can create a backlog so massive, that potential donors may think twice about donating a collection. To help institutions reduce their backlogs, Backstage is sending archival specialists on-site to process these collections and make them available to the public. We are privileged to have worked with Lock Haven University on our pilot project."

Regarding the value of Backstage’s on-site service for their library, Lock Haven’s Bernadette Heiney reports:

"We were thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with Backstage Library Works on their archival processing pilot project. It allowed us to work with an experienced archivist and learn the most up-to-date best practices. As part-time archivists, the project re-energized our commitment to and enthusiasm for our archive collection."

About Lock Haven University Libraries (LHU)

Stevenson Library and the Clearfield Campus Library make up the Lock Haven University (LHU) Libraries. Lock Haven University is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and is located in rural central Pennsylvania. The mission of the LHU Libraries is to acquire and facilitate access to information resources that support the academic and professional goals of their students, faculty, and staff; to provide students, faculty, and staff with the means and skills to locate, evaluate, and effectively use those information resources; and to ensure that the library is a comfortable place suitable for group projects and quiet study.

About Backstage Library Works

Backstage’s objective is to provide the most technologically advanced and efficient means for delivering professional library services. With over 25 years of experience, the company is known for its expertise in handling complex and unique projects. Backstage specializes in solutions for cataloging, authority control, digitization, preservation microfilm, and on-site needs. In providing services to more than a thousand libraries, large and small, public and private, and in locations across the globe, Backstage has cultivated an understanding of libraries, their mission, their operations, and the challenges they face. Backstage offices are located in Provo, Utah, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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