09/24/2013
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Michigan Jewish Institute Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that Michigan Jewish Institute, of Southfield, MI is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Michigan Jewish Institute earlier this year and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. Their custom OPAC can be viewed at http://mji.bywatersolutions.com

Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater stated:

“It was great to get to help the team at the Michigan Jewish Institute upgrade to the latest version of Koha. We look forward to continuing our work together through their support contract.”

About Michigan Jewish Institute Library:

MJI’s Main Campus Library, housed at our main campus in West Bloomfield, parallels the college’s academic interests by offering a collection of technological, business and Judaic materials that are frequently cited by MJI faculty during course delivery. Most course syllabi refer to use of various library materials and students are expected to make use of these materials via required or suggested readings and research. MJI is a participating member of the Michicard System. This valuable resource allows students enrolled at MJI to use participating public libraries and over thirty academic collegiate libraries located in Michigan. For more information, please visit: http://www.mji.edu/templates/mji/article_cdo/aid/447529/jewish/MJI-Library.htm

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/

A new technical partnership will allow EBSCO Discovery Service to be integrated with the VuFind service from the Common Library Network in Germany (GBV). Libraries that choose GBV's VuFind solution with EDS will be able to access an expanded selection of content and be able to acquire materials from one comprehensive source.

The press release is below and can also be found online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/EDS/GBV/prweb11153634.htm and on the EBSCO website at: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/ebsco-and-gbv-in-germany-devel....

EBSCO Information Services and GBV in Germany Develop Partnership Creating More Options for Discovery
~ EBSCO Expands its International Library Technology Platform Partnerships ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 24, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the Common Library Network in Germany (GBV), one of the biggest library services in Germany, have signed an agreement to enable integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and GBV’s VuFind service. GBV serves more than 250 academic libraries in Germany in the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia, and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

GBV recently launched a new service based on the Open Source search interface, VuFind. EBSCO’s collaboration with the GBV creates a seamless integration of VuFind and EDS. Any library choosing GBV’s VuFind solution with EDS will be able to access an expanded selection of content and have the ability to acquire materials from one comprehensive source.

EBSCO’s work with GBV demonstrates the commitment to serving the technical needs of their customers by continuing to expand their technical partnerships. For a complete list of EDS technical partnerships please go to: http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery/catalog/eds-additional-partners.

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

North Bethesda, MD, September 19, 2013 – LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces the public release of LibLime Koha 4.16 with the Lucene Solr search engine.

LibLime Koha 4.16 represents the innovation, ideas, and talents of many professional librarians from different libraries with whom LibLime partners to enhance the application. LibLime looks forward to a continued professional partnership for years to come with these individuals and organizations.

Many of the features in LibLime Koha 4.16 were sponsored by a variety of libraries including the South Central Library System, Salina Public Library, Colorado Library Consortium, Blue Mountain, and the Pioneer Consortium.

Some of the new features of LibLime Koha 4.16 include:
• foundational support for authority control
• global editing of authorized fields linked through the authority record
• expanded SIP2 support for renewals
• improved Solr stemming functionality
• enhanced search attributes for patron records for easier staff access
• support for RDA 2013

The libraries sponsoring development in LibLime Koha 4.16 played vital roles in the design of the new features as well as the quality assurance process including alpha and beta testing. Over 100 libraries are now using LibLime Koha 4.16 live in production and within the next several weeks, many more will be scheduling production upgrades. Development has begun on LibLime Koha 4.18 which will include a new fines/fees module among other enhancements.

About Solr
Solr is the popular open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication. It powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. For more information regarding Apache Solr, visit http://lucene.apache.org/solr/.

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.

9/19/2013
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Roseville Public Library chooses Libki Support from ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and provider of Libki support, announced today that the Roseville Public Library in Roseville, California has chosen ByWater to support their installation of the Libki open source kiosk management system.

Roseville Public Library will be using Libki to manage their 30+ public computers.

Chris Rhode, Library Supervisor, Technology & Support Services, commented:

“Libki will allow us to offer more consistent self-service options for our customers.  By choosing an open source reservation system, the library will be able to customize the system to our needs through future developments and support in the open source community.  This will let the technology grow with demands as our customer’s needs change over time.  We are very excited to work with ByWater on another open source system that will take our library to the next level in customer service.”

Kyle Hall, Development Support Specialist at ByWater Solutions and the creator of Libki commented on the newest library to make the switch:

“It’s fantastic to have yet another library adopting Libki to replace a proprietary solution! I’m certain that Roseville will be a satisfied partner!”

About Roseville Public Library:

Roseville Public Library serves the residents of Roseville, California via their three branches. Their collection of over 180,000 items include books, movies and electronic resources. For more information about Roseville Public Library please visit, http://www.roseville.ca.us/library/default.asp.

About Libki:

Libki is an open source kiosk management system, with web-based administration and a cross-platform client. Libki also features single sign-on integration with the Koha open source ILS, which is also FOSS. Libki’s administration system is web-based for easy use from any operating system. The Libki client runs on any operating system that has Gtk2 support. Libki is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL) and MIT License. For more information about Libki, please visit: http://libki.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