ByWater Solutions will be at ALA Annual this year at booth #4348. We’re going to do demos of our products and demonstrate highlights from the recent release.

General Koha Demos

Saturday, June 24: 11:30 am
Saturday, June 24: 4:00 pm
Sunday, June 25: 2:30 pm
Monday, June 26: 10:30 am

EBSCO EDS

(OPAC Search functionality and Configuration tools)

Saturday, June 24: 2:15 pm
Sunday, June 25: 9:45 am

Academic Success for your Students

(Course Reserves, Article Requests, Multi-item holds)

Saturday, June 24: 12:30 pm
Sunday, June 25: 1:30 pm

OPAC Design

(Checkout the new layout, Kids OPAC and see what you can to update your OPAC in a few easy steps)

Saturday, June 24: 1:30 pm
Sunday, June 25: 10:45 am

DIY for Your Patrons

(OPAC reset password, multi item holds, guarantor, privacy settings and SMS updates)

Saturday, June 24: 3:15 pm
Sunday, June 25: 11:45 am

Demos will be 15-20 minutes long.

If you can't make the scheduled times, we'd be happy to do on the fly demos and answer any questions you might have if you stop by at other times! Come meet Brendan, Josh, Todd, Adam, and Jessie at booth #4348 in Chicago. We hope to see you all soon!

About ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality Koha 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.

Facet Publishing have announced the release of Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed.

Literacy has been recognized as a human right for over 50 years in several international declarations and initiatives. Every child has a right to read and parents, teachers, librarians, publishers, booksellers, campaigners and policy makers have a social responsibility to ensure that they are able to exercise that right.

Joy Court’s new book, Reading by Right, reveals the strategies that are proving effective in overcoming barriers to reading from birth to teens. The book looks at practices and projects from around the globe and highlights the common principles and drivers that have generated success. The book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone including the pledges, “Everyone is a reader – regardless of their background or what others might think or say”, “Everyone should have access to content to read to borrow, buy or keep” and “Everyone benefits from the social and creative opportunities tied to reading”.

Joy said, “Because I am so passionate about the vital necessity of every child being able to read, I have become increasingly concerned about those children who either cannot or will not read: the reluctant, the disengaged, the struggling, the hard-to- reach. So when Facet approached me about editing another book for them, it was these children and young people that came to mind”.

The book features an illustrated foreword by former UK Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell and contains a collection of chapters from international experts covering aspects of overcoming reading difficulties or reading reluctance in children and young people.

Joy Court is Chair of the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals Working Party. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the English Association and a Trustee and National Council member of UKLA. She is Reviews Editor for The School Librarian and author of Read to Succeed (Facet, 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/9781783302093.jpg
Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed | Jun 2017 | 256pp | paperback: 9781783302093 | £54.95 | hardback: 9781783302109 | £109.95 | eBook: 9781783302116

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.

Contributors:

Chris Riddell, UK Children’s Laureate 2015-2017

Rose Brock, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Sam Houston State University, USA

Alison Brumwell, freelance education and literacy consultant, Leeds, UK

Wendy Cooling, Head of children’s section, BookTrust

Prue Goodwin, freelance lecturer in literacy and children’s books

Mervi Heikkilä, Director of Libraries in Seinäjoki, Finland

Jake Hope, reading development and children’s book consultant

Teri S. Lesesne, Professor, Department of Library Science, Sam Houston State University, USA

Yeojoo Lim, adjunct faculty member, Hansung University, South Korea

Ginny Lunn, CEO, Beanstalk

Hilary Mason, education consultant, trainer and writer

Amy McKay, school librarian, Corby, Northamptonshire, UK

Alexandra Strick, specialist in the field of children’s books and disability/diversity

Sara Tuisku, Finnish-language, culture and communication professional