Equinox Announces J.R. Clarke Live on Evergreen

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Duluth, GA —December 9, 2013

Equinox is proud to announce that J.R.Clarke Public Library in Ohio has gone live on Evergreen as part of the Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL). Earlier this fall, the entire consortium migrated to Equinox’s hosting service. For more information, the COOL combined catalog can be viewed online at http://www.cool-cat.org/.

Equinox oversaw the data migration of J.R. Clarke’s almost 60,000 bibliographic items and will continue to provide advanced technical support for the entire consortium. The COOL project received initial funding from the local libraries and an LSTA grant from the State Library of Ohio.

J.R. Clarke Public Library was first organized in 1917 as the Covington-Newberry Township School and Public Library. It was renamed in 1950 in honor of a former state librarian. Its current location opened to the public in 1981.

Shae Tetterton, Equinox Project Manager, says, "This was an exciting project for many reasons. They are the 10th library to go live on Ohionet's COOL system and the first to migrate to their new ESI hosted environment. Their new Director, Krista Gibson, was a delight to work with and did an amazing job for someone so new to the library and migrations. I look forward to seeing what libraries will join COOL next!"

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Equinox was founded by the original developers and designers of the Evergreen ILS. We are wholly devoted to the support and development of open source software in libraries, focusing on Evergreen, Koha, and the FulfILLment ILL system. We wrote over 80% of the Evergreen code base and continue to contribute more new features, bug fixes, and documentation than any other organization. Our team is fanatical about providing exceptional technical support. Over 98% of our support ticket responses are graded as “Excellent” by our customers. At Equinox, we are proud to be librarians. In fact, almost half of us have our ML(I)S. We understand you because we *are* you.

We are Equinox, and we’d like to be awesome for you.

For more information on Equinox, 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 NC Cardinal, 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

For Immediate Release

EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing is thrilled to announce today that its 2012 Steampunk Anthology release "Shanghai Steam" has been included in Orson Scott Card's latest how-to book - "Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-of-This-World Novels and Short Stories" by Orson Scott Card, Phillip Athans, Jay Lake and the editors of Writer's Digest.

In "Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-of-This-World Novels and Short Stories" Orson states:

“A handful of editors and writers are tackling the issues of classism, racism, and imperialism head on, including independent Hades Publishing anthology Shanghai Steam (2012), which offers a Chinese view of the steam-punk world. “ - Page 146 in the section Critical Reactions to Steampunk

"Shanghai Steam" is also listed on page 150 in the section "Recommended Steampunk Reading" under the heading "Anthologies, Short Fiction and Miscellaneous."

The editors, authors and publishers alike were inspired to note that the creative team behind the creation of "Shanghai Steam" is in the fine company of Rudyard Kipling!

About "Shanghai Steam":

From ancient China to a future Mars, from the British Empire to the Old West, 19 authors show you worlds with alcohol fuelled dragons, philosophical automatons, and Qi-powered machines both wondrous and strange in tales of vengeance, paper lantern revolutions and flying monks.

"Shanghai Steam" is a unique mashup of steampunk and the Chinese literary genre known as Wuxia (loosely translated as martial hero).

About the Editors:

Renée Bennett is a three-time Aurora Award nominee for editing. Her own fiction has appeared in places such as Year’s Best Fantasy, Realms of Fantasy, and on CBC Radio.

Calvin D. Jim is an Asian-Canadian writer and editor of Asian speculative fiction whose works have appeared in Rigor Amortis and Crossed Genre Quarterly. He lives in Calgary with his wife and two children, no pets and no garden gnomes.

Ace Jordyn is a YA fantasy and mystery author, editor and contest judge who believes in firing imaginations and empowering the dreams of children of all ages.

"Shanghai Steam" includes works by:

Camille Alexa, Shen Braun, Amanda Clark, Ray Dean, Tim Ford, Laurel Anne Hill, Minsoo Kang, William H. Keith, Crystal Koo, Frank Larnerd, Emily Mah, Derwin Mak, Brent Nichols, Frances Pauli, Jennifer Rahn, Tim Reynolds, Julia A. Rosenthal, Nick Tramdack, K. H. Vaughan.

“Shanghai Steam” is one of a number of Steampunk releases produced by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing and AXP “Press, both imprints of parent company Hades Publications. The most current is the current release “Clockwork Heart” by Dru Pagliassotti. “Clockwork Heart” is a revised first edition, and is the first book in the newly announced Steampunk anthology, "The Clockwork Trilogy".

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For more information, or to arrange interviews with the editors or authors,
Please contact:
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing /AXP Press
Janice Shoults
Marketing and Events Director
403-254-0160

North Bethesda, MD, December 5, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), in Dakar, Senegal, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.14 as their new ILS.

CODESRIA looks forward to taking advantage of the rich functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14, including enhanced circulation policies, the Solr search engine, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, additional functionality for expired & cancelled holds, and support for RDA. As with all versions of LibLime Koha since 4.8, the entire application resides in the Plack environment for enhanced performance.

About the Council for the Development of Social Science Research
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa(CODESRIA) was established in 1973 as an independent pan-African research organization primarily focusing on social sciences research in Africa. CODESRIA’s mission requires the emergence of a pan-African community of researchers, the protection of their intellectual freedom and autonomy in performing their duties and the elimination of barriers regarding language, discipline, region, gender and generation. To assist with research dissemination, CODICE, the CODESRIA Documentation and Information Centre, was set up in 1983. Its main objective is to provide documentary support for CODESRIA activities and for researchers across Africa who are involved in its 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.

12/5/2013
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Graceland University Libraries Choose ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the libraries at Graceland University are now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Frederick Madison Smith and Dr. Charles F. Grabske Libraries this summer and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. Their custom OPAC can be viewed at http://library.graceland.edu

Marsha A. Jackel, Collection Management, Frederick Madison Smith Library, Graceland University commented on their switch to Koha:

“We love Koha because it is simple, straight forward, and the students don’t get confused. The previous system we had was complicated and confusing to the students. This is the greatest move we’ve made and kudos to Nicole Engard for training us so well!”

About Graceland University Libraries:

Graceland maintains libraries on both the Lamoni Campus and the Independence Campus.

The Frederick Madison Smith Library, also known as the FM Smith Library, is located on the Lamoni Campus. Constructed in 1966, the F.M. Smith Library has three levels and is home to a government depository, three computer labs, the Writing Center, a small coffee bar and a large collection of books for a breadth of disciplines.

The Dr. Charles F. Grabske Library is located on the Independence Campus. The award winning Grabske Library has an extensive collection of Nursing resources. For more information about the libraries at Graceland University, please visit: http://www.graceland.edu/academics/library.cfm

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/