9/1/2016
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio 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 Briscoe Library at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio is now live on their Koha open source integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions has completed the migration of the Libraries' more than 135,000 titles and is providing ongoing hosting and support services to the library. The Library's customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://briscoe.uthscsa.edu.libproxy.uthscsa.edu/

About the UT Health Science Center and its Libraries
The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio serves patients in San Antonio and South Texas. Their health care professionals serve in more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities across San Antonio, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley. More than 3,000 students, researchers and post-doctoral students from around the world come to the UT Health Science Center San Antonio to study, research and discover new breakthroughs.

The mission of The Libraries is to promote learning, inspire discovery, and connect with our communities.  To achieve our mission we:

• Deliver resources for teaching, learning, and research
• Provide expert information and instructional services
• Develop innovative physical and virtual spaces
• Strengthen existing partnerships and seek new collaborations.

For more information please visit: http://www.uthscsa.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 for Koha support 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/

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9/1/2016
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio 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 Briscoe Library at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio is now live on their Koha open source integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions has completed the migration of the Libraries' more than 135,000 titles and is providing ongoing hosting and support services to the library. The Library's customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://briscoe.uthscsa.edu.libproxy.uthscsa.edu/

About the UT Health Science Center and its Libraries
The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio serves patients in San Antonio and South Texas. Their health care professionals serve in more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities across San Antonio, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley. More than 3,000 students, researchers and post-doctoral students from around the world come to the UT Health Science Center San Antonio to study, research and discover new breakthroughs.

The mission of The Libraries is to promote learning, inspire discovery, and connect with our communities.  To achieve our mission we:

• Deliver resources for teaching, learning, and research
• Provide expert information and instructional services
• Develop innovative physical and virtual spaces
• Strengthen existing partnerships and seek new collaborations.

For more information please visit: http://www.uthscsa.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 for Koha support 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/

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~ New Features Include Audiobook App, Simplified Purchasing Options & Additional Content ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 1, 2016 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is enhancing its audiobook experience with a new design and additional features that provide an improved listening experience for libraries. EBSCO Audiobooks now offers a new audiobook app for listening on the go, an expanded collection of titles, improved delivery systems and a new, easy-to-use design.

By partnering with Findaway, a global leader in digital content delivery, EBSCO Audiobooks now provides access to audiobooks directly from mobile devices. With a simplified workflow and a fun, intuitive design, EBSCO Audiobooks pairs its quick and easy searching with the new EBSCO Audiobooks App, making on-the-go listening easier. The app allows library users to download audiobooks from their library collections directly to their device, and begin listening immediately.

The collaboration with Findaway also expands the collection of EBSCO Audiobooks, which now includes more than 50,000 titles that will appeal to a vast range of library users including leisure readers, researchers, language learners, alternative K-12 learners, vision impaired readers and hobby enthusiasts. EBSCO’s team of collection developers and librarians have created several new collections for academic, public library, K-12 and corporate libraries, including Award Winners, Popular Fiction and Popular Non-Fiction.

Laura Ricci, Senior Product Manager at EBSCO, says the new upgrades to the EBSCO Audiobooks offering will give libraries a bigger and better audiobook experience. “The upgrades to EBSCO Audiobooks were designed to help libraries meet the diverse needs of their library users. EBSCO Audiobooks will transform their listening experience by offering a vast collection that they can access quickly and easily from anywhere.”

Acquiring an EBSCO Audiobook is simple with the new, easy purchase model. Audiobooks are all available to purchase in EBSCOhost Collection Manager through a Single User perpetual access model. Authentication methods for EBSCO Audiobooks now include Personal User Authentication and SSO authentication to provide secure access to the audiobooks from both inside and outside of the library.

About Findaway
Findaway is a global leader in digital content delivery. With the invention of Playaway Preloaded Products, they transformed the way that audiobooks, eBooks, videos and learning tools are circulated in 40,000 libraries, schools, and military installations. They also revolutionized digital audiobook delivery with AudioEngine, the industry’s largest B2B audiobook delivery platform that enables brands to deliver one of the world’s largest collections of digital audiobooks within their own experience. To learn more about Findaway and the Findawayers who make it all happen, visit www.findaway.com.

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 900,000 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
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebsco.com

31/8/2016

For immediate release

A research-grounded, theoretical foundation for evidence based library and information practice

Facet Publishing have announced the release of Being Evidence-based in Library and Information Practice

This new book by Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle takes an open and encompassing approach to exploring evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP) and illustrates how librarians can incorporate the principles to make more informed decisions in the workplace.

EBLIP is an approach to professional decision making which involves, questioning existing practice, gathering or creating evidence, using information or evidence wisely, and using professional skills to help others.

Being Evidence-based in Library and Information Practice develops and rethinks the original EBLIP model and builds upon Booth and Brice’s seminal work, Evidence Based Practice for Information Professionals (Facet, 2004).

The editors of the book said, “This book brings together recent theory, research, and case studies from practice environments across the broad field of librarianship to provide librarians with a new reference point for how they can use and create evidence within their practice in order to better meet the needs of their communities”.

Dr Denise Koufogiannakis is Associate University Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Denise co-founded the open access journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice and has held several editorial positions since the journal’s inception in 2006, including Editor-in-Chief from 2009-2011. Denise has contributed numerous research papers to the scholarly literature of EBLIP, and has served on the Program Committee of the international EBLIP conference series since 2003.

Dr Alison Brettle is a Reader in Evidence Based Practice at the University of Salford, UK. She has over 20 years experience of health, social care and library related research and teaching environments and has led and supported a wide range of projects and published extensively. She has been involved with the open access professional journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice since its inception, and was Editor-in-Chief 2012-2014. She also hosted and co-chaired the 6th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice in Salford in 2011.

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Press and review copies contact:

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

Notes:

Link to the cover image: http://www.booksonix.co.uk/facetpublishing/9781783300716.jpg

Being Evidence-based in Library and Information Practice | Aug 2016 | 224pp | paperback: 9781783300716 | £54.95 | hardback: 9781783301195 | £89.95 | eBook: 9781783301454| £54.95

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.