Business professionals will have access to the key information in influential books from Harvard Business Press Review through EBSCO's Business Book Summaries™ and will be able to purchase Harvard Business Review Press e-book from EBSCO. Books from Harvard Business Review Press provide business professionals with ideas, insights, and best practices to help them lead their organizations more effectively. Organizations use Business Book Summaries to augment leadership development programs, close competency gaps, and improve overall business acumen of their managers, directors, and executives.

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Harvard Business Review Press and EBSCO Sign Exclusive Agreement
~ Summaries of New Business Books from Harvard Business Review Press will be Available Only Through EBSCO’s Business Book Summaries™ ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 12, 2013— An agreement between EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO)and Harvard Business Review Press will allow EBSCO to create summaries of Harvard Business Review Press’ books by the world’s leading business thinkers, including John P. Kotter, Clayton Christensen, W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne, Michael Watkins, Linda Hill, Vijay Govindarajan, A.G. Lafley, and Roger Martin.

Summaries of all the very latest Harvard Business Review Press books will be available exclusively from EBSCO Business Book Summaries™ starting in January 2014, along with summaries of Harvard Business Review Press’ all-time best-sellers. In addition, EBSCO subscribers will be able to buy Harvard Business Review Press e-books directly through the EBSCO portal.

“This new partnership expands the reach of Harvard Business Review Press titles and enables professionals across the globe to engage with our content through book summaries and EBSCO’s integrated e-book platform,” says Sarah McConville, Publisher, Harvard Business Review Press. “We are pleased to be partnering with EBSCO to provide even more options for our readers to access the content we publish whenever they need it.”

Harvard Business Review Press provides business professionals with ideas, insights, and best practices to help them lead their organizations more effectively. From ‘disruptive innovation’ and ‘core competence’ to ‘primal leadership’, ‘blue ocean strategy’, and ‘playing to win’, many of the ideas first published in Harvard Business Review Press books have influenced managers and organizations worldwide—and changed the way they do business. Harvard Business Review Press is a part of the Harvard Business Review Group, which also includes the flagship Harvard Business Review magazine, 12 international licensed editions, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org.

Business Book Summaries™ enhance the book reading experience and give readers timely, applicable information to put the book’s key ideas into practice. Business Book Summaries™ are used by organizations to augment leadership development programs, close competency gaps, and improve overall business acumen of their managers, directors, and executives.

Vice President of Product Management Tad Goltra says that the addition of books from Harvard Business Review Press to Business Book Summaries will further enable executives to keep abreast of the latest business thinking. “Harvard Business Review Press publishes innovative and important business books, and adding them to Business Book Summaries and EBSCO’s integrated e-book platform will provide employees with important resources that can help spur creative thinking and improve decision making.”

Business Book Summaries™ includes thousands of top business books from the last 20 years with new book summaries added daily, an iPhone app, and audio summaries of selected titles. For more information on Business Book Summaries, visit http://www.ebscohost.com/learning-resources/business-book-summaries.

About Harvard Business Review Press
Harvard Business Review Press is a leading global book publisher and a division of the Harvard Business Review Group. Harvard Business Review Press publishes for the general, professional, and academic markets on the topics of leadership, strategy, innovation, and management. Recent bestselling titles include Playing to Win, Leading Change, Blue Ocean Strategy, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Being the Boss, Conscious Capitalism, and The First 90 Days. For more information, please visit hbr.org/books.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is a leading provider of premium content for corporations, associations, and organizations. EBSCO’s product line includes eJournals, eBooks, book summaries, ePackages, and Subscription Services as well as Business Source® Corporate Plus™, a comprehensive collection of full-text business publications, EBSCO Discovery Service™, a single search of the world’s largest collection of vetted science, technical, medical, and business content and EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world and may be integrated into corporate intranets and applications and used via mobile devices. EBSCO is the trusted resource for thousands of organizations worldwide and millions of end users. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com, or contact: information@ebsco.com.
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North Bethesda, MD, September 11, 2013- The Central City Public Library, located in Central City, NE, is now live on LibLime Koha 4.16 for all collection and patron management services.

The Central City Public Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from its legacy ILS system. With the addition of the Central City Public Library to the Pioneer Consortium, there are now over 1.5 million items and over 600,000 bibliographic records in the Pioneer LibLime Koha union catalog.

About the Central City Public Library
The Central City Public Library is a vital part of the Central City, NE community and provides numerous activities throughout the year. Central City residents can join book discussion groups, historical programs, the preschool story hour, after school programs, and the summer reading program. To fund the programs and services it provides for residents, the Central City Public Library has received grants from Wal-Mart and the Nebraska Library Commission.

About the Pioneer Consortium
The Pioneer Consortium continues to expand the number of members that share the LibLime Koha union catalog. The successes of the early members of the consortium are noticed by more and more libraries around the state and the consortium membership continues to grow. One of the main attractions is access to the LibLime Koha union catalog.

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.

9/10/2013
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

ByWater Solutions Welcomes Melissa Lefebvre as Operations Manager

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Melissa Lefebvre as its new Operations Manager. Melissa will be working as a project and communications manager for ByWater and will facilitate communication and operations for the migration and development departments, as well as contribute to the everyday support of ByWater’s seven hundred-plus library customers.

Melissa received her MLS from Southern Connecticut State University, and her BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has worked on Evergreen, another open source ILS system, for four years as Project Manager at Bibliomation, Inc., a large public and school consortium in Connecticut. Melissa plans on using her skills to contribute code to the Koha community whenever possible. In her spare time she enjoys taking architectural photographs, reading, and spending time with her family.

Melissa commented on her recent decision to join ByWater Solutions:

“I am very excited to be joining the ByWater team. Over the past four years, I have been working specifically with open source systems and libraries. For me, open source puts the control into the librarians hands. They have a direct impact on the direction and functionality of the system, and I am honored to be helping libraries achieve their goals through Koha, and ByWater.”

Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater commented on Melissa’s move to ByWater:

“We are overjoyed to have Melissa as part of the ByWater team. I have had the pleasure of working with Melissa in the past and know that she is the perfect fit for the crucial role of Operations Manager for ByWater. We are excited for our partners to get to know Melissa and look forward to a long and productive relationship with her.”

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

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

Call for Papers (and apologies for cross-posting):

The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 23rd issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 23rd issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid-January 2014, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal@code4lib.org by Friday, October 11, 2013. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message.

C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical)
* Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced
* Case studies
* Best practices
* Reviews
* Comparisons of third party software or libraries
* Analyses of library metadata for use with technology
* Project management and communication within the library environment
* Assessment and user studies

C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 21 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org.

Remember, for consideration for the 23rd issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to journal@code4lib.org no later than Friday, October 11, 2013.

Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing.

Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee

There is now an e-book collection specifically designed for business students. EBSCO's eBook Business Collection is a comprehensive subscription collection of business e-books on a range of topics. The collection is designed to meet the research needs of business students.

The release is below and can also be found at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/eBook/BusinessColl/prweb11098597.htm and on the EBSCO website at: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/ebsco-launches-ebook-business-....

EBSCO Information Services Launches eBook Business Collection
~ Collection of Over 9,400 eBooks Designed Specifically for
Academic and Business School Libraries ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 9, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announces the launch of eBook Business Collection, a comprehensive subscription collection of business e-books intended to meet the content needs of students in their research, special projects, and entrepreneurial quests.

eBook Business Collection equips academic libraries and business schools with the e-books their students need, encompassing a variety of business topics such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship and also focusing on career growth, personal development, communication and networking. The collection includes over 9,400 e-books with new e-books added regularly at no additional cost.

Senior Director of eBook Products Ken Breen says the diverse collection of high-quality business e-books from leading publishers will significantly help business students quickly find what they need. “We were able to leverage our expertise as one of the world’s leading aggregators of premium content to create a collection of business e-books that are relevant to the specific needs of students, enabling them to get the information they need faster.”

eBook Business Collection offers libraries the ability to provide students unlimited access to a large collection of valuable e-books while also providing an easy and powerful user experience. Users experience the same features as are available on EBSCOhost® and are able to access from and download to mobile devices.

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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