Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from antiquity to the digital age by Michele V Cloonan is the recipient of the 2016 Society of American Archivists' Preservation Publication Award.

The book offers a unique compilation of key texts from a range of international contributors, charting the development of preservation from its origins to modern day practice and offers an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value and authenticity of information preservation.

The Awards Committee said “Preserving Our Heritage is undeniably a monumental achievement and a welcome contribution to the bookshelves of preservation professionals everywhere”.

Established in 1993, the SAA Preservation Publication Award recognises and acknowledges the author or editor of an outstanding published work related to archives preservation and, through this acknowledgement, encourages outstanding achievement by others.

Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from antiquity to the digital age | 2015 | 702pp | Paperback; 9781856049467 | £69.95

More info: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=049467

Facet Publishing have announced the publication of Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval edited by Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty both at Aberystwyth University.

The book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and moving image.

Bringing together chapters written by leading experts in the field, the first part of this book provides an overview of the theoretical and academic aspects of digital cultural documentation and considers both technical and strategic issues relating to cultural heritage projects, digital asset management and sustainability. The second part includes contributions from practitioners in the field focusing on case studies from libraries, archives and museums. While the third and final part considers social networking and digital cultural objects.

Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval draws from disciplines including information retrieval, library and information science (LIS), digital preservation, digital humanities, cultural theory, digital media studies and art history. It’s argued that this multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach is both necessary and useful in the age of the ubiquitous and mobile web.

Key topics covered include:

• Managing, searching and finding digital cultural objects
• Data modelling for analysis, discovery and retrieval
• Social media data as a historical source
• Visual digital humanities
• Digital preservation of audio content
• Photos on social networking sites
• Searching and creating affinities in web music collections
• Film retrieval on the web.

The book will provide inspiration for students seeking to develop creative and innovative research projects at Masters and PhD levels and will be essential reading for those studying digital cultural object management. Equally, it should serve practitioners in the field who wish to create and develop innovative, creative and exciting projects in the future.

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Press and review copies contact:

James Williams, Marketing & Sales Manager, Facet Publishing
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0597
Email: james.williams@facetpublishing.co.uk

Notes:

Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval | Jul 2016 | 256pp | Paperback; 9781856049412; £54.95

About the editors:

Allen Foster has a BA in Social History, a Master's in Information Management and a PhD in Information Science. As Reader in Information Science, he has held various roles, including Head of Department for Information Studies, at Aberystwyth University. His research interest areas span the research process of Master's and PhD students, the development of models for information behaviour and serendipity, and user experience of information systems, creativity and information retrieval. He has guest edited for several journal special issues, is a regional editor for The Electronic Library and is a member of journal editorial boards, international panels and conference committees.

Dr Pauline Rafferty MA(Hons) MSc MCLIP is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning at the Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University. She previously taught at the Department of Information Science, City University London, and in the School of Information Studies and Department of Media and Communication at the University of Central England, Birmingham.

Contributors:

Sarah Higgins, Aberystwyth University
Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Hannah Dee, Aberystwyth University
Lorna Hughes, University of Glasgow
Lloyd Roderick, Aberystwyth University
Alexander Brown, Aberystwyth University
Maureen Pennock, British Library
Michael Day, British Library
Will Prentice, British Library
Corinne Jörgensen, Florida State University (Emeritus)
Nicola Orio, University of Padua
Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rosa Ines de Novias Cordeiro, Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro

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.

7/19/2016
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
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God's Bible School Goes Live on ByWater Solutions' Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Libraries of God's Bible School of Cincinnati, OH. are now live on their Koha open source integrated library system with support from ByWater Solutions.

The campus libraries of God's Bible College include the R.G. Flex on Memorial Library, the Schmul Library and Ministerial Resource Center, the Gale Center and Library and the college Archives and Special Collections. Additionally, the Division of Music maintains an extensive library of sheet music.The online catalog contains records for more than 120,000 books, AV, periodical and article titles in the libraries' print and digital collections. The libraries' also facilitate access to more than 2,700 (subscription) and 10,000 (open source) full-text electronic journal titles.

Joshua Avery, Director of Library Services, commented on their decision to move to ByWater Solutions:

"Not only has Koha proven to be more robust system than our legacy ILS, but contracting with ByWater Solutions for hosting and support has allowed us to focus on our primary mission of providing library services and resources. ByWater has consistently offered prompt service and support, allowing us to see both financial and staffing efficiencies. Additionally, ByWater understands libraries and has a strong track record of advancing the functionality and interoperability of the Koha ILS. As open source systems increasingly become a part of the future of libraries, we are glad to be part of the future of both Koha and ByWater Solutions."

About God's Bible School:

Welcome to God's Bible School and College! Today, as they have for more than 100 years, our graduates are making a contribution around the world by taking their places in the church and society as well-trained, biblically-minded, and professionally-competent servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. A long history of outstanding Alumni is the real measure of our success. The graduates of our school have so impacted our world that the alumni motto is "The sun never sets on the students of God's Bible School and College.

When you join our growing student body, you will study with outstanding leaders. The members of our faculty combine strong academic qualifications, years of ministry experience, and a deep commitment to our mission. All of our professors are men and women of faith, deeply committed to Christ and to the life-changing truth of Scripture. Studying with them, you will be challenged personally, intellectually, professionally, and spiritually.

Our strategic location in the heart of Cincinnati Ohio offers a picturesque view of the city skyline and serves as a ready reminder of the challenges and opportunities for ministry in the 21st century. For more information please visit:https://www.gbs.edu/

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,HTML5, 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/

7/14/2016
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

The Katharine Brush Library at Loomis Chaffee School Goes Live on ByWater Solutions Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that The Katharine Brush Library at Loomis Chaffee School, of Windsor, CT is now live on ByWater Solutions Koha Support. ByWater Solutions had completed the migration of the Libraries' more than 30,000 titles last year and is providing ongoing hosting and support services to the library. The Library's customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://pelicat.loomis.bywatersolutions.com/

Eric Styles, Director of the Katherine Brush Library, commented on their decision to move to Koha with ByWater:

"The Loomis Chaffee School's Katharine Brush Library had the same ILS since it went automated in the mid-1990s. We were looking for an ILS and vendor that would provide a dynamic product, which continues to customize with improvements, and excellent customer service. The open source product Koha offered our first need. Koha provides a staff client and OPAC that is easy to navigate and provides the ability to make customizable and global changes, which is not available in many "out of the box" ILS vendors. Also, as an open source product Koha continues to improve with community needs and crowd sourcing. The open source environment makes you feel a part of a community, which again we would not get with an "out of the box" ILS. ByWater achieved our second need with excellent customer service, including a seamless, hands-on migration and OPAC customization. It is refreshing to deal with a dedicated staff, which believes in the success of their product. We also feel a part of the ByWater family and the continued excellent support we have from them."

About TheLoomis Chaffee School:
The Loomis Chaffee School is a renowned New England boarding school located on a 300-acre campus in Windsor, Connecticut. Chartered in 1874 by five siblings whose children all died tragically and who then selflessly determined to found a school as a gift to the children of others, Loomis Chaffee provides our students with the best education - an education in which excellence in teaching and learning is shaped by the why, as much as the what, and every member of the community shares a commitment to the best self and the common good.

The School:

• grades 9,12 and post-graduate
• trimester schedule with an 11-day cycle; classes held on eight Saturdays
• 300-acre campus in historic Windsor, Connecticut
• 12 dormitories with 36 live-in faculty families and 42 affiliated faculty members
• 250+ courses (regular, advanced, and Advanced Placement) and independent study
• average class size: 12
• The Norton Family Center for the Common Good
• The Alvord Center for Global & Environmental Studies
• The Henry R. Kravis '63 Center for Excellence in Teaching

For more information please visit: http://www.loomischaffee.org/

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, HTML5, 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/

PPF Reaches Subscription Fulfillment Agreement with NACE International
~ Agreement Provides Subscription Fulfillment for NACE ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 14, 2016 — Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment (PPF), a division of EBSCO Information Services, will provide subscription services for NACE International. As part of the partnership, PPF will provide subscription management services for NACE, including fulfillment, renewals, customer service and reporting.

The partnership, beginning July 2016, takes PPF’s expertise at managing institutional subscriptions and allows publishers to focus on editorial excellence. Associations that want to keep membership in-house can rely on PPF to manage the institutional market on their behalf.

Group Publisher for NACE International, Bill Wageneck believes the partnership with PPF will benefit NACE and its subscribers, “We are looking forward to this partnership with PPF and the efficient management it will bring to Material Performance and CORROSION journals’ agency and institution subscription bases.”

About Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment (PPF)
Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment (PPF), a division of EBSCO Information Services, has partnered with publishers worldwide since 1975 to provide customized journal subscription fulfillment services for scientific, technical, medical and business publications. A trusted publisher partner in the STM community, PPF offers a comprehensive solution for publishers, including renewal and marketing services, journal subscription fulfillment, finances and subscriber communication. Visit www.ppfebsco.com to learn more.

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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