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    June 21st, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Leiden / Boston / Paderborn / Singapore / Beijing – 21 June 2018

    Brill and the Society for the History of Emotions have agreed that the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (EHCS) will from now on be published with Brill. Edited by Katie Barclay (Adelaide) and Andrew Lynch (Western Australia), EHCS is dedicated to understanding the emotions as culturally and temporally situated phenomena, and to exploring the role of emotion in shaping human experience and action by individuals, groups, societies and cultures. Published in two issues, the inaugural volume (2017) is now available from the Brill website at www.brill.com/ehcs. The next issue, Vol. 2:1, will be published in July.

    “We are delighted that EHCS is joining Brill,” say journal editors Katie Barclay and Andrew Lynch. “This move offers the journal and the Society for the History of Emotions great benefits: increased profile and publicity; accessibility to more libraries through Brill’s online publication presence; and continuing professional management of all areas of production and marketing. Brill makes a perfect match for our international, trans-temporal and multi-disciplinary approach to the study of emotions. We look forward to a very happy association.”

    “Over the years, Brill has published numerous books on, or related to, the history of emotions,” says Arjan van Dijk, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Brill. “This booming field is continuously yielding new scholarly insights, pertinent both to historians and to today’s society. We are very pleased to work with the Society for the History of Emotions and to contribute to the further development of this important discipline.”

    For more information about the journal visit www.brill.com/ehcs or contact Arjan van Dijk, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Brill at dijk@brill.com.

    For customer queries, please contact your regular distributor or directly contact Brill Sales and Customer Services for journals: brill@turpin-distribution.com; T: +44 (0)1767 604 954 (Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia-Pacific), or brillna@turpin-distribution.com; T: (844) 232 3707 (Toll free US and Canada); T: +1 (860) 350 0041 (the Americas).

    About Brill
    Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Literature & Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Biology, Education, Social Sciences and International Law. With offices in Leiden (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER), Singapore (SG) and Beijing (CN), Brill today publishes 284 journals and close to 1,400 new books and reference works each year, available in print and online. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information, please visit www.brill.com.

    View this media alert online: https://brill.com/newsitem/89/brill-becomes-publisher-of-the-internation...

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    June 20th, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Duluth, Ga., June 20, 2018: Equinox is pleased to announce the successful migration of Emmaus Public Library to Evergreen within the Pennsylvania Integrated Library System, (PaILS) SPARK Consortium.

    The migration added 80,109 bibliographic records and 13,585 patrons to PaILS SPARK. Equinox provided project management and configuration services in addition to data extraction and bibliographic deduplication including patron and circulation records. Remote and onsite training were also provided by Equinox.

    “Libraries are not just about books, they are inspiring places for our patrons to learn and grow,” said Amy Resh, library director at Emmaus Public Library. “We are absolutely thrilled with the level of training and care shown for our patrons during migration and the go-live process; giving us a more user-friendly approach to borrowing materials and the opportunity to show how much more there is to our modern library.”

    PaILS was founded in June 2011 as a non-profit organization to provide a open source integrated library system. It oversees SPARK, a consortium of Evergreen libraries across Pennsylvania. Equinox and PaILS have been collaborating on the SPARK consortium since 2013. Moving to SPARK, Emmaus Public Library is able to share the consortium’s over 80,000 items.

    “It was a pleasure to work with the Emmaus Public Library as they migrate to Evergreen,” said Angela Kilsdonk, Product Training and Consultation Manager at Equinox. “They were a great group to work with and our training had the added excitement of the construction of their new Children's Wing Expansion slated to open late 2018! I have enjoyed watching the SPARK consortium grow over the years and Emmaus is going to be a wonderful addition to the consortium and the Evergreen community.”

    To learn more about Evergreen and the expert services Equinox has to offer please visit https://www.equinoxinitiative.org/ .

    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.

    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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    June 20th, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    6/20/2018
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    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
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    The University Libraries at Virginia Tech are live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha
    support, announced today that the University Libraries at Virginia Tech are now live on Koha with ByWater
    Solutions. ByWater completed the transition of the library's 1.5 million plus holdings from Sierra earlier
    this month and will be providing ongoing support and hosting services to the library. The University
    Libraries have also be implemented the Coral ERM through ByWater and the Ebsco Discovery Service to
    work alongside Koha for a unified Library Management System that allows students to easily find all of the
    resources needed in one interface. The University Libraries at Virginia Tech are the first R1 research
    libraries to adopt Koha as their LMS and marks a turning point for the Koha project in terms of large scale
    academic library adoption.

    Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater stated:
    "We are extremely excited to have the opportunity to work with the dedicated team at Virginia Tech! The
    flexibility and control that is inherent in the open source model is a perfect match for the needs of Virginia
    Tech; an institution that continues to be at the forefront of innovation and technology. They are a true
    market leader and we are thrilled that they are up and running on Koha!"

    About the University Libraries at Virginia Tech

    The University Libraries plays an essential role in furthering Virginia Tech’s mission as a global land-grant
    university by providing access to a plethora of resources in varying disciplines. It strives to share
    information and knowledge regardless of geographic, institutional, or financial barriers, through our
    growing open data and research repositories. Overall, the University Libraries’ goal is to foster innovation,
    discovery, creativity, and collaboration through our spaces, technology, services, and people. For more
    information please visit: https://lib.vt.edu

    About Koha

    Koha is the first open-source Library Management System (LMS). 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 Koha support and implementation company dedicated to
    providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their LMS 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 LMS, 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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    June 20th, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Duluth, Ga., June 19, 2018: Equinox is pleased to announce the successful transition of Branch District Library to their Evergreen Sequoia hosted environment.

    The migration encompassed 192,000 bibliographic records and 20,000 patrons to their instance of Evergreen Sequoia. The project also included hosting, support, and auxiliary services provided by Equinox in addition to project management and software configuration. Data extraction and transfer were also completed by Equinox.

    “Coming from almost ten years as an Evergreen library as part of a consortium, we already knew how capable and powerful the Evergreen ILS is,” said Assistant Director and Director of Technology at Branch District Library, John Rucker. “What took our experience to the next level was the speed, professionalism, and accuracy of the Equinox team during our migration to a solo Evergreen instance. We were very happy with how smooth our migration went, and we’re looking forward to another decade with Evergreen and Equinox.”

    Branch District Library was founded in 1991 and serves Michigan’s nearly 40,000 Branch County and Allen Township residents through its six branch libraries.

    "Thanks to the Branch District Library’s preparation and engagement in the process we were able to make this a smooth upgrade and transition onto their new Evergreen Sequoia hosted environment,” said Rogan Hamby, Data and Project Analyst for Equinox. “I always enjoy knowing that work we do in the ILS services translates into improvements for staff and patrons so it has been a pleasure working with Branch District Library who have been diligent in pursuing all the details that make such a difference in the experience. It has been a pleasure making those things happen for them."

    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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    June 19th, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    North Bethesda, MD, June 19, 2018 - LibLime, a division of PTFS, will be exhibiting at the ALA 2018 Conference in New Orleans, LA. from June 22th through June 25th. All conference attendees are encouraged to visit LibLime at Booth # 650 see the latest library-sponsored functional additions to Bibliovation 6.0, our latest Library Services Platform (LSP) offering.

    We are currently expanding functionality in the Discovery Layer and would be interested in getting feedback from librarians on the front lines of service. Please come by Booth 650 to review our Discovery Layer offering, provide us with ideas for future expansion, and leave your card for a daily Kindle drawing.

    We will also be featuring our new Serials Control module as well as our stand alone MARC21 web-based batch editing tool. Bibliovation includes:

    • Digital object import with full-text search & retrieval
    • External links to third party authentication programs
    • EDI-compliant acquisitions
    • Asynchronous reporting module
    • Support for RDA and GeoMARC
    • An expanded messaging package for patron Discovery Layer interaction covering purchase requests, ILL requests, digital object ingest, and holds
    • Full support for multiple security classification schema between metadata and digital objects
    • Discovery Layer visual search using ESRI and Google Maps interfaces

    To find out more about Bibliovation 6.0, and LibLime’s support for libraries that want to be part of an LSP’s open development, email BibliovationInfo@liblime.com to request a presentation, or visit LibLime at Booth #650 at the ALA Exhibits at the New Orleans Convention Center.

    About LibLime - PTFS
    LibLime, a division of PTFS, is the global leader in providing support for open development Library Service Platforms (LSP). Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, LibLime educates libraries about the benefits of open development, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. LibLime then facilitates deployment of the LSP in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting services. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, Knowvation, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com.

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