Duluth, Ga., February 17, 2020: Equinox is pleased to welcome the Oregon County Library District to Evergreen with their successful migration to the Missouri Evergreen Consortium.

The Oregon County Library District’s move will support 2,225 patrons and encompass a total of 51,744 bibliographic records. Services provided by Equinox included project management and Evergreen software configuration. Data extraction and bibliographic deduplication were completed as part of their migration encompassing item, patron, and transaction records. Onsite and virtual training were also provided by Equinox.

“Working with Equinox on Evergreen has been a great experience for the staff of the Oregon County Library District,” said Janice Richardson, Library Coordinator at Oregon County Library District. “We are a small, rural library district with limited resources. Joining the consortium has opened up a whole new world for our patrons with access to materials currently not available at our small branch libraries. The Evergreen training staff at Equinox have been phenomenal, going above and beyond our expectations in terms of training and follow-up questions and concerns. We are looking forward to continued growth and support from the Equinox and Evergreen team as we move forward."

The Missouri Evergreen Consortium began as a resource sharing initiative in 2012 in an effort to create an integrated library system for libraries in Missouri. They are supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provision of the Library Services and Technology Act as Administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

“The five libraries of the Oregon County Library District (OCLD) recently joined the Missouri Evergreen Consortium of libraries,” said Jennifer Weston, Implementation Project Manager at Equinox. “For the first time, patrons served by these libraries will now have an interactive online library catalog which gives them the ability to access and manage their library accounts as well as search for materials and place holds on items. Equinox is excited and honored to be working with the OCLD libraries and their staff members who have been working diligently to implement this new system to provide new opportunities for their communities.”

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, SCLENDS, 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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Leiden / Boston / Paderborn / Singapore / Beijing – 17 February 2020

Brill has entered into a partnership with Harvard University Asia Center to distribute all the e-books published by Harvard University Asia Center. The current e-book collection includes over 500 titles and around 16-20 new titles will be added to the collection annually. Nearly all the titles belong to one of three monograph series: Harvard East Asian Monographs, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs, and the Harvard Contemporary China Series.

By country, approximately 50% of the books in this collection are on China, 40% Japan, 10% Korea, and 1% other (Vietnam, India, Mongolia and other Asian regions). By field, approximately 50% of the books in this collection are on history, 20% literature, 5% business & economics, 5% religion, 5% politics & policy, 5% anthropology, sociology & regional studies, 3% art history, 3% popular culture & cinema, and 1% law, with a few miscellaneous topics.

James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, and Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University, and Chair, Asia Center Publications Executive Committee, said: “The Harvard University Asia Center is one of the world’s largest and widely-respected publishers of scholarly books in Asian Studies. More than 550 titles, many of which have won awards from national and international scholarly associations, have been published since the 1950s in the three academic book series that the Center now oversees. We are delighted to join now with Brill and our hope is that this collaboration will make both our newly published cutting-edge scholarship and rare classic monographs more widely available to scholars worldwide.”

Uri Tadmor, Publishing Director Asian Studies at Brill, added: “As one of the world’s oldest publishers on Asian Studies, Brill is thrilled to enter this new cooperation with the renowned Harvard University Asia Center. Numerous titles published by the Center have been awarded prestigious book prizes, attesting to their excellence and relevance to the field. Thanks to our cooperation, the impact of the Center’s books is expected to grow even further, as they reach new audiences via Brill’s extensive distribution network worldwide.”

For more information on the Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, please visit https://brill.com/hace, or contact Qin Higley, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Brill, at higley@brill.com.

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, Languages & 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 over 300 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 Brill.com.

About Harvard University Asia Center
The Asia Center is a university-wide research center with four priorities: 1) fostering research and teaching on Asia in transnational and transregional perspective, recognizing that Asian nations and their peoples have been inextricably interconnected with one another and with those of other regions for much of history; 2) increasing the resources and number of Harvard faculty members and students engaged in the study of Asia by promoting expansive and inclusive coverage, with particular attention to strengthening teaching and research at Harvard on Southeast Asia; 3) advancing new transdisciplinary knowledge on Asia by catalyzing the interaction and collaboration of faculty members and students from across Harvard’s many schools; and 4) forging inclusive networks representing varied perspectives and backgrounds by connecting faculty members and students with scholars, practitioners, professionals, policy makers, and communities in the United States, Asia, and globally to address critical transregional challenges and opportunities, and to foster international understanding and strengthen mutual respect.

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