12/02/2014
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Thirteen ByWater Partner Libraries Bring Features to Koha 3.16

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, has upgraded their partner library systems to Koha 3.16! Koha 3.16 includes 6 new features, 197 enhancements to existing features, and 390 fixes. Thirteen of ByWater’s Koha partner libraries sponsored developments in this release.

ByWater and the Koha community thank the following libraries for their contributions to Koha 3.16:

• Display date of lost or missing in Items Details sponsored by Marlboro College Library
• Sort display of staged/imported MARC records by “match” column sponsored by Arnold Library, Brooklyn Law School Library, and Edward Neisser Library
• SIP2 Fee Paid and Fee Paid Response support sponsored by Galecia Group
• ISBN Normalization sponsored by North Central Regional Library
• Suspend/unsuspend individual holds in OPAC sponsored by Roseville Public Library
• Add a search facet for home library sponsored by Roseville Public Library
• Loan checkins can be backdated to an arbitrary date sponsored by The Farmington Libraries
• Add link to Edit Items from record details sponsored by American Falls District Library
• Fee processing changes added as separate staff permission sponsored by Corpus Christi Public Libraries
• Speed up checkout via Ajax sponsored by American Falls District Library, North Central Regional Library, Northeast Kansas Library System, Roseville Public Library, Southeast Kansas Library System, and Washoe County Library System (Officially pushed into 3.18 but backported to 3.16.4)

In addition to the partner sponsored developments, Koha 3.16 includes:

• There is now the ability to use different templates for notices based on how the notice is to be sent. For example, is now possible to use different wording for email and SMS hold notifications.
• Users can now unselect active facets when refining search results.
• Search history can be now displayed and managed in the staff interface.
• Creating orders from staged files now offers much more flexibility.
• The public reports service can now accept report parameters.
• There is experimental support for Plack for development use.
• The index update script can now operate as a daemon, allowing the indexes to be updated within seconds of a catalog record getting updated.

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

EasyBib Integrates with EBSCO Resources
~ Direct Citation Exporting from EBSCO Resources to EasyBib is Now Possible ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — December 2, 2014 — EBSCO information Services and EasyBib have made it possible to directly export citations from EBSCO resources to EasyBib. The integration creates an effortless way for students and researchers to ethically use their resources.

EasyBib is an intuitive information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking and research tools. It is an accurate, fast and comprehensive way for educators to teach students how to become effective and organized researchers. EBSCO provides research content through hundreds of databases and historical archives as well as the ability to explore the library’s collection through a single search box via EBSCO Discovery Service™.

With the EBSCO integration with EasyBib, library users simply have to select the article they want to cite from one of the hundreds of EBSCO databases, historical archives or EBSCO Discovery Service and click on the EasyBib option in the export process. The user’s EasyBib account will open and allow the citation to be imported.

EasyBib Co-CEO and Co-Founder Neal Taparia says that the integration with EBSCO resources follows EasyBib’s dedication to improve the product and partner with the best resources available. “Our commitment to providing the best citation and research management tool is further improved with this recent integration. As one of the foremost database and discovery technologies in the world, EBSCO is an ideal partner in our goal to provide the best tools and resources to educators worldwide.”

According to EBSCO Senior Director of Product Management Harry Kaplanian, the ability to export citations to EasyBib helps to support information literacy and proper research habits. “EBSCO helps library users access content from many sources. The integration with EasyBib allows those users to give proper credit to those sources easily when using the widely used and helpful research management tool, EasyBib.”

About EasyBib
EasyBib is an intuitive information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational. EasyBib is not only accurate, fast, and comprehensive, but helps educators teach and students learn how to become effective and organized researchers.
EasyBib is a service of Imagine Easy Solutions, a tiny company that makes big products. Learn more here.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 6,000 discovery customers in over 100 countries. EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) provides each institution with a comprehensive, single search box for its entire collection, offering unparalleled relevance ranking quality and extensive customization. EBSCO is also the preeminent provider of online research content for libraries, including hundreds of research databases, historical archives, point-of-care medical reference, and corporate learning tools serving millions of end users at tens of thousands of institutions. EBSCO is the leading provider of electronic journals & books for libraries, with subscription management for more than 360,000 serials, including more than 57,000 e-journals, as well as online access to more than 650,000 e-books. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a family owned company since 1944.

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