~ New Partnership Allows Academic Libraries in United Kingdom to Utilize GOBI® Acquisitions Services in Capita LMS ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — March 21, 2018 — GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO (GOBI Library Solutions) has partnered with Capita to offer a fully integrated and automated acquisitions workflow solution. The new partnership provides academic libraries using the Capita Library Management System (LMS) with seamless access to GOBI®, the leading web-based acquisitions tool for finding, ordering and managing e-books and print books for libraries.

The partnership with Capita allows GOBI customers in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland, to access the entire suite of GOBI acquisitions tools and millions of e-books and print books available in GOBI. With the integration, the selection and purchase process begins in the GOBI workflow, and orders are seamlessly pushed to Capita for review. Once approved, orders are automatically returned to GOBI for completion, and invoices are shared electronically via the Capita Gateway Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Susan Wignall, Business Development Manager at Capita, says, “We are delighted to be working with GOBI Library Solutions. This new and exciting partnership will provide secure automated processes for seamless Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transmissions. Gateway is a fully managed service, supporting local workflows, so you can be assured your stock is shelf ready.”

GOBI Library Solutions Vice President of Sales, UK, Ireland and Nordic Countries, Gareth Smith says the partnership with Capita reinforces GOBI Library Solutions’ commitment to developing workflow solutions that benefit libraries. “As a major provider of e-books and print books for libraries, GOBI Library Solutions is committed to partnering with ILS vendors to help make workflows more efficient for libraries. The integration of GOBI with Capita LMS provides librarians across the United Kingdom with the acquisitions services they need to better streamline collection development.”

With access to more than 15 million titles, including more than one million e-books, GOBI Library Solutions supplies e-books and print books to thousands of academic, government and medical libraries in more than 60 countries. In addition to a variety of content, GOBI Library Solutions helps librarians streamline their collection development workflows by providing:
• Books from the top academic publishers
• Real-time ordering solutions
• E-books within minutes
• A choice of e-book suppliers and multiple purchase options
• Itemised invoicing
• Centralised customer service and UK-based distribution centers

GOBI customers also benefit from duplication control across all formats, full-text reviews and refined selection lists. GOBI provides Spotlight Lists highlighting premier and high-interest titles, real-time management reports and more. GOBI is provided by GOBI Library Solutions, a division of EBSCO Information Services. As a part of EBSCO, GOBI has offices in the United Kingdom and knowledgeable customer service staff to help provide support for customers.

For more information about GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, please visit: gobi.ebsco.com.

About GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO, formerly YBP Library Services, offers over 15 million print and e-books to academic, research and special libraries worldwide. From streamlining workflows to partnering with library staff, GOBI Library Solutions is committed to providing the best solution for libraries’ acquisition, collection development and technical service needs. For more than 40 years, the mission has remained same—to partner with libraries in providing access to the broadest selection of scholarly content available. For more information, visit the GOBI Library Solutions website at: gobi.ebsco.com.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 11,000 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 customisation. 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 1,000,000 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
978-356-6500 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebsco.com

PLA Conference, PHILADELPHIA – March 21, 2018 – Gale, a Cengage company, is taking instruction and student engagement to the next level. Video and curriculum-aligned classroom tools have been integrated into selected eBooks on the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) platform. Now teachers can incorporate content from these eBooks---text, video, classroom activities and more---into their lesson plans, creating a more effective and engaging learning experience for students, while meeting curriculum standards.

The enhanced eBooks on GVRL were created in partnership with librarians, teachers and advisors to meet appropriate curriculum standards. The videos were carefully selected and curated by Gale’s editorial team and embedded within an article or chapter in the eBooks, alongside prompts and related questions to directly support the content discussed within the article or chapter.

Every video includes closed captioning and an interactive transcript that highlights the corresponding text as the video plays. Additionally, the transcripts make the videos fully searchable. Clicking on a section of the transcript takes users directly to that point within the video. Users can even search within the actual video, helping them easily locate and jump to specific points of interest.

View Gale's video on the advantages of integrated video, here: http://bit.ly/2IGG4O2.

A visual indicator on the search results page lets users know which documents contain videos or users can limit search results to show only documents containing video. GVRL’s bookmark tool offers a stable permalink back to the document page, making it easy for librarians and teachers to share with students. The video player supports HD streaming and is compatible with all mobile devices.

“Teachers know the value that video brings to student learning and engagement. They want to include it in their lesson plans, but find it challenging and time-consuming to manually curate the content themselves and often turn to their school librarian for assistance,” said Douglas Enns, a middle school science teacher and advisor for Gale’s UXL Ignition Science: Collaborative Projects enhanced eBook. “The new enhanced eBooks on GVRL integrate video, instructional guides, templates and other curriculum-based learning materials, making lesson planning easier. This saves teachers time and enables them to focus on teaching, with classroom-ready content at their fingertips.”

Key new capabilities of enhanced eBooks for GVRL include:

• Integrated Video: Video is carefully selected and/or created to support and enhance content, which makes concepts more meaningful to students.

• Curriculum Mapping: Aligns learning materials, assessments and instructional techniques to a set curriculum.

• Instructional Guide: Suggests ways the content can be used in the classroom, emphasizes connections to the curriculum, provides practical tips and more.

• Critical-Thinking Questions: Questions posed for students to engage, analyze and evaluate the learning materials.

• Classroom-Ready Activities: Aligned to specific curriculum standards, skill and level of rigor.

• Worksheets: Printable templates align to text material and guide students in research and writing.

Gale has released four new enhanced eBooks on GVRL. Titles include:

• UXL Ignition Science: Collaborative Projects: Includes 70 projects that promote collaboration skills and knowledge of the scientific method. With the demand for STEM careers growing each year, it’s crucial for students to develop these skills early on.

• Animal Rights and Welfare: A five-title set that provides coverage of engaging and timely topics related to social issues around animal rights and welfare.

• Unlocking Current Issues: A five-title set that provides foundational historical information to help students gain a better understanding of current events and controversial issues.

• Genetics, 2nd Edition: Clear and comprehensive introduction to the many facets of genetics. Includes foundational concepts, key scientific and historical themes, ethical issues and advancements in science.

“Gale is taking student engagement and research content to a whole new level with the new enhanced eBooks on GVRL,” said Liz Mason, Senior Vice President of Product at Gale. “Integrating video and classroom tools into our eBooks for GVRL is moving us beyond traditional reference to creating content specific to teaching and research, making our eBooks as valuable in the classroom as they are in the library.”

Demonstrations of the new enhanced eBooks on GVRL will be conducted at the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference, March 21-23 in Philadelphia at the Gale booth #501.

To learn more about Gale’s enhanced eBooks on GVRL, visit: https://www.gale.com/ebooks/on-gvrl.

About Cengage and Gale
Cengage is the education and technology company built for learners. The company serves the higher education, K-12, professional, library and workforce training markets worldwide. Gale, a Cengage company, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 60 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when, and how people need it. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.gale.com.

Follow Gale on:
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• Gale Blog: http://blog.gale.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage/

PLA Conference, PHILADELPHIA – March 21, 2018 – Gale, a Cengage company, is making it easier for new entrepreneurs and existing business owners to find and access their library’s key business and legal resources. Gale Small Business Builder now provides integrated access to Small Business Resource Center, DemographicsNow and Gale LegalForms. Libraries that subscribe to one or more of these products now have access to additional business and legal content through Gale Small Business Builder, giving their patrons a direct path to the resources and tools they need within their business planning workflow.

Entrepreneurs need access to a wide variety of supporting information and data when they are in the business planning process. In many cases, they’re unsure about the type of information or data they need and don’t know where to find it. The new integrations in Gale Small Business Builder link users directly to the appropriate content, making business planning more actionable, enabling libraries to guide entrepreneurs to relevant resources with less staff involvement.

Naperville Public Library in Illinois uses Gale Small Business Builder as the foundation of the NaperLaunch Academy, a library program that offers coursework in entrepreneurship, where Gale Small Business Builder is used to help new startup entrepreneurs create a business plan. Kent Palmer, business librarian at Naperville Public Library believes the new integration will help streamline the process of finding and accessing information that entrepreneurs and small business owners require for business planning:

“Entrepreneurs using Gale Small Business Builder at NaperLaunch will appreciate the ease of accessing important subject information for their business plans. The guidance and resources from Small Business Resource Center and Gale LegalForms makes my job much easier as we guide startups through the plan development process. Importing demographic and legal information will help them build the best business plans possible. Gale Small Business Builder’s new integration makes the library experience for entrepreneurs significantly better than any incubator,” said Palmer.

Gale Small Business Builder includes integrated access to:
• DemographicsNow: connects users with tools and a wealth of highly detailed demographic data that spans the entire United States, making it ideal for gaining consumer and market insight for opening or growing a business.

• Small Business Resource Center: a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, taxes, and more.

• Gale LegalForms: provides access to a variety of legal documents and offers the most robust collection of legal information available – including state-specific legal forms – that are helpful for starting or managing a new business.

“Having direct access to quality resources and tools is key to creating a successful business plan. Gale Small Business Builder’s new integration achieves this by making content easily discoverable and accessible,” said Leigh Ann Cusack, senior director of public and consortia products at Gale. “As entrepreneurship and small business rapidly grow, public libraries have become the epicenter for research and support. Gale Small Business Builder’s new integration provides access to resources that are vital to businesses and entrepreneurs, helping libraries drive economic development within their communities.”

Gale Small Business Builder’s new integrations will be available in April. Demonstrations of the new experience will be conducted at the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference, March 21-23 in Philadelphia at the Gale booth #501.

About Gale Small Business Builder
Gale Small Business Builder is an online planning tool that helps aspiring small-business owners and experienced entrepreneurs plan, start or run a small business or nonprofit. For more information on Gale Small Business Builder visit: https://www.gale.com/c/gale-small-business-builder.

About Cengage and Gale
Cengage is the education and technology company built for learners. The company serves the higher education, K-12, professional, library and workforce training markets worldwide. Gale, a Cengage company, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 60 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when, and how people need it. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.gale.com.

Follow Gale on:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/galecengage
• Gale Blog: http://blog.gale.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage/

DULUTH, Ga., March 15, 2018 -- Equinox is pleased to announce that Thorold Public Library in Thorold, Ontario successfully migrated to Evergreen under the Sequoia agreement with the Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (LiNC).

Thorold Public Library was established as a lending library in 1895 and has grown over the years from 58 patrons to 12,525. Its migration added 75,626 bibliographic records to LINC. The project included the conversion of bibliographic, item, patron and all current loans and bills. It also encompassed the de-duplication of bibliographic records against the larger, LINC, database. To oversee the migration Equinox provided project management and software configuration in addition to remote Evergreen training.

“Migration can be a stressful process for both staff and library patrons,” said Joanne DeQuadros, Chief Librarian at Thorold Public Library. “The team at Equinox and our fellow LiNC libraries have eased the transition with their training, guidance and support. The migration team is always quick to respond and resolve any issues. They are a pleasure to work with and we look forward to our ongoing relationship.”

Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (LiNC) was established in 2010 between four public libraries and a college library. In 2017 the cooperative began resource sharing.

“It was very exciting to have the opportunity to work with Thorold during their migration to LiNC,” said Erica Rohlfs, Project Manager for Implementation at Equinox. “I absolutely enjoyed our calls together, and they were a fantastic, congenial group! I also appreciate the opportunity to gain more in-depth knowledge of the LiNC system and how it's configured.”

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative Inc. is a nonprofit company engaging in literary, charitable, and educational endeavors serving cultural and knowledge institutions. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., the Initiative carries forward a decade of service and experience with Evergreen and other open source library software. At Equinox OLI we help you empower your library with open source technologies. To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxinitiative.org/.

About Evergreen
Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed to provide an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today, over 1500 libraries around the world are using Evergreen including NC Cardinal, SC Lends, and B.C. Sitka. For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.
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~ Founders Roger Rohweder and Duncan Smith Retire as Longtime Sales and Marketing Executive Danielle Borasky is Named Vice President. Smith to Remain Focused on Shaping EBSCO's Public Library Focus ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — March 12, 2018 — NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Information Services, (EBSCO) announces the retirement of NoveList Co-Founders Duncan Smith and Roger Rohweder. During their tenure with NoveList, Smith and Rohweder have helped empower librarians and connect communities through the readers’ advisory solution. Danielle Borasky has accepted the position of Vice President and will take on leadership of NoveList.

Rohweder and Smith will retire from their leadership roles in June 2018. Duncan Smith will continue his longstanding service to libraries in an advisory role as Chief Strategist, Public Libraries, for EBSCO.

In her new role as Vice President, Borasky will assume primary responsibilities for NoveList operations. Since joining NoveList in 2011, Borasky has played a key part in overall product strategy and development. Prior to joining NoveList, Borasky served as Associate Director for Information and Library Services at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Institute on Aging in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she helped launch its inaugural library. Before her role at UNC Institute on Aging, Borasky served as a librarian for the Office of Information and Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. Borasky earned her M.L.S. from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University.

EBSCO Information Services Senior Vice President of Product Management Mike Laddin says Borasky’s promotion is a testament to her dedication to helping librarians connect with their customers. “Since Danielle joined NoveList in 2011, she has demonstrated unwavering passion and commitment to developing products that help match readers to the books they love. Coupled with the leadership experience she’s gained during her tenure, I’m confident Danielle will help lead the team in taking NoveList to the next level.”

Borasky says she looks forward to providing libraries with even more opportunities to transform lives through books. “As a librarian, I understand the needs of these institutions and the importance of creating products that meet those needs. I look forward to working with the team at EBSCO to develop new, innovative solutions that connect readers, books and libraries.”

About NoveList
NoveList is dedicated to transforming lives through reading. By helping libraries help readers, NoveList empowers libraries to engage and inspire their communities. NoveList has been helping readers find their next favorite book for more than 20 years, and continues to develop innovative solutions for connecting readers, books, and libraries. As a division of EBSCO Information Services, NoveList specializes in readers' advisory tools for libraries that include book discovery, catalog enrichment, and outreach. Find out more at www.ebscohost.com/novelist.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 11,000 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 1,000,000 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:
Jessica Holmes
Communications Director
978-356-6500 ext. 3485
jmholmes@ebsco.com