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    November 26th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    The John Cotton Dana Award Accepting Online Entries for
    Outstanding Library Public Relations
    ~Eight $10,000 Grants Awarded as Part of the
    Most Prestigious Award of the American Library Association ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — November 25, 2013 — The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting submissions for the John Cotton Dana Award (JCD). The award, which is managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) division of ALA, honors outstanding library public relations. Eight $10,000 awards are granted each year by the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the annual Awards Ceremony is sponsored by the ALA and EBSCO Information Services.

    A new site has been created for the 2014 JCD entries which allows all entries to be submitted electronically. Entry documents are available at: https://johncottondana.nonprofitcms.org/awards.
    ALA LLAMA Division Executive Director Kerry Ward says the news site should streamline the submission process and make it easier for eligible organizations to submit and entry. “This new site provides librarians with an easier process for pulling together their submissions and the judges will also benefit from the online process.” Entries must be received by February 14, 2014.

    The award is named after John Cotton Dana, the father of the modern library, credited with helping transition libraries from reading rooms to community centers. JCD submissions include strategic library communication campaigns from all sizes and types of libraries. Submissions include rebranding efforts, promoting unique archives, awareness campaigns and community partnerships. Entries may be submitted by any library, Friends group, consulting agency or service provider, excluding libraries represented by the JCD Committee members.

    JCD entries are organized around the following areas: needs assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Libraries submit samples of their processes, research, media releases, media coverage or other results received plus evaluation of the results and other documentation and supporting materials that show the scope and effectiveness of the library’s strategic communication effort.

    In recognition of their achievement, JCD award winners receive a cash development award from the H.W. Wilson Foundation. The John Cotton Dana Awards are presented during an Awards Ceremony hosted by EBSCO Information Services held during the American Library Association annual conference.

    About the John Cotton Dana Award
    The John Cotton Dana Award was inaugurated at the 1946 annual conference of the American Library Association. It was named after John Cotton Dana (1856-1929), a librarian called the father of the modern library.

    About The H.W. Wilson Foundation
    The H.W. Wilson Foundation was established in 1952 by Halsey W. Wilson, founder of The H.W. Wilson Company. Over the years the foundation has provided grants to libraries and library related causes. Since 1957 the foundation has supported scholarship grants to all library schools accredited by the American Library Association in the United States and Canada. Visit the foundation at thwwf.org.

    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 500,000 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

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    November 22nd, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    North Bethesda, MD, November 22, 2013- LibLime, a Division of PTFS, has been selected by an agency within the Department of Defense as the winning vendor to implement LibLime Academic Koha to manage their 400,000+ technical and research report collection. The agency has served the information needs of the Defense community for more than 65 years, and reports to the Assistant Secretary of Defense For Research and Engineering ASD(RE). Under the multi-year contract LibLime will provide implementation, support, and hosting services to the agency. The discovery layer will also provide a ‘convert on demand’ service to support the rapid delivery of digitized technical materials directly to researcher desktops within 72 hours of request.

    About LibLime Academic Koha
    LibLime Academic Koha is the brainchild of a group of over 30 academic and research libraries who have been guiding and sponsoring development of the application over the last four years. Other academic and research libraries are encouraged to join them in their development efforts. All member libraries contribute annually towards a mutual development fund which is used to sponsor new development. The group is self-governed under the leadership of a Steering Committee. The Steering Committee oversees functional committees (ie, circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, etc) and approves design specifications, commitment of funds, and upgrade programs.

    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.

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    November 22nd, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    11/22/2013
    CONTACT:
    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
    sales@bywatersolutions.com

    ByWater Solutions Welcomes Barton Chittenden as Development Support Specialist

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Barton Chittenden as its new Development Support Specialist. Barton will focus on providing technical support to ByWater’s eight hundred-plus library customers.

    Barton graduated with a BA from Grinnell College and has spent the last 15 years in various positions, either programming or doing tech support and analysis and is excited to be providing support to Koha ILS users now. In his free time, he tends to do Linux-y things like KyOSS (Louisville’s Linux User Group), or hackathons at LVL1: Louisville’s maker space.

    Barton commented on his recent decision to join ByWater Solutions:

    “I’m really excited to be supporting an open source project; I think that the open source development model is one of the best out there, and I’m looking forward to learning how that works at the everyday level.”

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

    “We are happy to welcome Barton to the ByWater family. His experience in programming and open source will be a great asset to our partners and with his desire to learn he will fit right in with the rest of the team.”

    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

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    November 21st, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    EBSCO Introduces RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals™ — Offering Rare Collection of Full-Text Music Journals
    ~ Collection Provides Periodicals Not Available in RIPM Retrospective Index™
    and RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals™ ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — November 12, 2013 — RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals™ is now available from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals is a collection of rare primary source documents offering music researchers access to a special selection of full text music journals unavailable elsewhere.

    The first installment of this collection includes 150,000 pages from 25 music journals dealing with musical life in world capitals: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Brussels, Budapest, Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, New York, Prague, Paris, St. Petersburg and Warsaw. The collection also contains several monumental journals including Musical America until 1922, Le Guide musical (Brussels, 1855-1919), the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung (Berlin 1847-1896) and several early musicology periodicals. Future titles will include those focusing on instruments, genres, musicology’s early periodicals, music education and jazz, with others combining both musical and non musical content, such as theatrical and general arts journals. New titles will be added on a regular basis.

    With RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals, music researchers will gain access to a unique collection of periodicals not covered in RIPM Retrospective Index and RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals. Libraries that subscribe to RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals in calendar years 2013 and 2014 will receive the RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals at no additional cost for two subscription years. The e-Library is one part of a suite of full-text music journals offered by RIPM.

    The RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals brings the total number of full-text publications available in RIPM to nearly 150 journals, adding almost 40 percent new full-text content to those titles in the RIPM Online Archive.

    About RIPM
    Founded in 1980, the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM), provides information concerning more than two-hundred years of musical life in Europe and the Americas by preserving and providing access to the contemporary musical press. One of only four internationally-sanctioned cooperative bibliographic undertakings in music, RIPM benefits from the collaboration of scholars and institutions in over twenty countries, an editorial headquarters in the United States, and active research teams throughout Europe and the Americas.

    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 500,000 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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    November 7th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    KidsCareEverywhere Brings the Latest
    Medical Information to Developing Countries
    ~ Nonprofit Offers Clinical Resource PEMSoft to Resource-Poor Hospitals ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — November 7, 2013 — Health professionals in multiple impoverished countries in Asia and Africa have access to the latest evidence-based, pediatric clinical information because of innovative work being done by KidsCareEverywhere. According to a recent study in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, access to that information helps healthcare professionals manage care in low-income countries.

    EBSCO Health donates the clinical point-of-care resource PEMSoft, the definitive resource for evidence-based, pediatric clinical information at the point-of-care, to KidsCareEverywhere. The California nonprofit then trains the doctors and nurses on how to use the software to provide better health care to children in public hospitals and clinics.

    Currently, KidsCareEverywhere supports doctors and hospitals in 15 different countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Congo, Yemen, South Africa, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, and Vanuatu. Doctors learn English as part of medical training worldwide, and are able to use PEMSoft because almost every doctor, even in the most impoverished countries, has a smart phone to download the PEMSoft mobile app so access to the internet or electricity is not necessary.

    PEMSoft has been shown to be a key practice resource, even for those who only receive a 45 minute training session and are non-primary English speakers. In a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (14(5) 471-476), September 2013, the use of the desktop version of PEMSoft was associated with a dramatic 81 percent increase in the ability of Vietnamese physicians to correctly manage common clinical pediatric emergency medicine cases.

    KidsCareEverywhere Founder and Executive Director, Ronald Dieckmann MD, MPH believes that access to PEMSoft is vitally important for the hospitals that KidsCareEverywhere is helping. “We help doctors help kids everywhere. Very few of our site health professionals have any medical textbooks or medical references at all to help make critical medical decisions at the bedside. Ironically, almost all of them have access to computers and smart phones, but they have no medical software.”

    During a recent trip to Ethiopia and Tanzania, KidsCareEverywhere trained nearly 200 physicians, residents and medical students at national facilities on the benefits of using PEMSoft in their daily practice. At the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where half of the country’s pediatricians and all of its emergency physicians are trained, PEMSoft quickly became the most frequently used reference tool by pediatric residents, and is now used routinely to guide treatment of the most severe and complex cases.

    KidsCareEverywhere is looking to expand its sustainable medicine outreach program at the National Hospital for Pediatrics in Hanoi, Vietnam in early 2014. The outreach will include donation of the new mobile PEMSoft application called "PEMSoft Mobile" for smart phones and tablet PCs and on-site instruction by the KidsCareEverywhere team. This project will test the feasibility of the mobile app in a large, controlled clinical trial.

    In June, 2013, KidsCareEverywhere will be partnering with the Timmy Foundation from Indianapolis to train health professionals in software utilization in the Amazon basin in Ecuador—where there is no internet access or reliable electricity. Because the PEMSoft Portable mobile app resides on the native memory of the smart phone or tablet PC, the lack of internet access at the point of care will not limit utilization, even in this remote location.

    Dr. Dieckmann, who is also EBSCO’s managing Editor-in-Chief of PEMSoft, is encouraged by the many successes he has seen so far. “I am inspired by the transformations we have witnessed already after the work that we do to bring remote colleagues into 21st century medicine.”

    PEMSoft is licensed commercially to hundreds of American, Canadian, Australian and other Western hospitals by EBSCO Information Services, who owns the software. To learn more about the work KidsCareEverywhere is doing, visit www.kidscareeverywhere.org. For more information on PEMSoft, visit www.pemsoft.com.

    About EBSCO Health
    EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, is a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions, healthcare business intelligence, and medical research information for the healthcare industry. EBSCO Health users include professionals in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Flagship products include CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, clinical e-books and e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™, licensed databases (such as MEDLINE®), plus EBSCONET®. EBSCO databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the electronic resource favored by libraries around the world.
    About EBSCO Information Services

    EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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