EBSCO Information Services Solidifies Software as a Service Team Hiring John Law as Senior Vice President of SaaS Products and Platforms
~ John Law to Head Team Dedicated to Advancing Library Technologies ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — June 2, 2016 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has expanded its Software as a Service (SaaS) team hiring John Law as Senior Vice President, SaaS Products and Platforms. Law will oversee a growing EBSCO mission designed to advance progress on open source LSP collaboration, library discovery solutions and secure content access, from anywhere on any device.

Bringing nearly 20 years of experience in library solutions, Law is well-known as an innovator in the library space. He has made significant contributions to research on user behaviors and effective UX design. As a technologist with a passion for enabling research and education, Law previously held a number of product management, platform development and discovery-related leadership roles at ProQuest and Serials Solutions before choosing to join EBSCO.

EBSCO Executive Vice President of Product Management, Stratton Lloyd says Law will help expand EBSCO’s vision and accelerate library technologies forward. “John’s reputation is a testament to his dedication to improving library solutions and as part of the EBSCO team he is expected to move us forward even faster as we embark on a never before seen, industry changing open source project, expand the reaches of discovery and search, provide innovative workflow solutions for librarians and create a better, more intuitive and more streamlined user experience.”

Law says he hopes to leverage EBSCO’s premier market position to produce innovations that significantly impact the mission of libraries. “The driven leadership and dedicated talent at EBSCO are inspiring. With the resources and know-how within the company, there is an opportunity to create transformational solutions that effectively address the rapidly evolving needs of our learning institutions and communities.”

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 10,000 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 800,000 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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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Vice President of Communications
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New from Facet Publishing: Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems edited by Louise F. Spiteri, Dalhousie University.

Libraries are increasingly using web-scale discovery systems to help clients find a wide assortment of library materials, including books, journal articles, special collections, archival collections, videos, music and open access collections. Depending on the library material catalogued, the discovery system might need to negotiate different metadata standards, such as AACR, RDA, RAD, FOAF, VRA Core, METS, MODS, RDF and more.

With this new book, you can harness the power of linked data and web-scale discovery systems to manage and link widely varied content across your library collection.

Editor Louise Spiteri and a range of international experts show you how to:

• maximize the effectiveness of web-scale discovery systems
• provide a smooth and seamless discovery experience to your users
• help users conduct searches that yield relevant results
• manage the sheer volume of items to which you can provide access, so your users can actually find what they need
• maintain shared records that reflect the needs, languages, and identities of culturally and ethnically varied communities
• manage metadata both within, across, and outside, library discovery tools by converting your library metadata to linked open data that all systems can access
• manage user generated metadata from external services such as Goodreads and LibraryThing
• mine user generated metadata to better serve your users in areas such as collection development or readers’ advisory.

The book will be essential reading for cataloguers, technical services and systems librarians and library and information science students studying modules on metadata, cataloguing, systems design, data management, and digital libraries. It will also be of interest to those managing metadata in archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions.

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Press and review copies contact:

James Williams, Marketing & Sales Manager, Facet Publishing
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Notes:

Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems | May 2016 | 188pp | Paperback; 9781783300693; £54.95

About the authors:

Dr Louise Spiteri is Director of the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dr. Spiteri has published extensively in the areas of social tagging, folksonomies, social discovery systems, and library cataloguing. Dr. Spiteri teaches in the areas of information management, metadata, records management, cataloguing, classification, and taxonomies.

The book is published by Facet Publishing and is available from Bookpoint Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)1235 827702 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 827703 | Email: facet@bookpoint.co.uk | Web: www.facetpublishing.co.uk. | Mailing Address: Mail Order Dept, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD. It is available in North America from the American Library Association.