Choice Awards Six Brill Publications as “Outstanding Academic Titles” in 2020

Leiden / Boston / Paderborn / Singapore / Beijing – 3 December 2020

Brill is proud to announce that six Brill publications have made Choice magazine’s 2020 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Selected by Choice review editors, the awarded titles are representative of Brill’s rich publishing program.

This year’s Outstanding Academic Title list includes 531 books and digital resources chosen by the Choice editorial staff from among the over 3,500 titles reviewed by Choice during the past year. The awarded titles have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as an important— often the first—treatment of their subject. For more information about their selection criteria, please visit the Choice website.

Our sincere congratulations to the authors and editors of Brill’s winning titles, of which the introductions are freely accessible:

A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea
Edited by Samantha Kelly

Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean
Edited by Jeremy Armstrong and Matthew Trundle

Hellenistic Astronomy. The Science in Its Contexts
Edited by Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg

Muslims at the Margins of Europe. Finland, Greece, Ireland and Portugal
Edited by Tuomas Martikainen, José Mapril, and Adil Hussain Khan

Negotiating Space in Latin America
Edited by Patricia Vilches

Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit
James Trier

Choice is an important resource for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and online resources of interest to those in higher education. Choice is a publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). More information about Choice.

Our Choice Outstanding Academic Titles from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Questions about these or other Brill titles? Please contact us at marketing@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.

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ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support and hosting services for the Aspen Discovery Open Source system for Nashville Public Library in Tennessee!

Nashville Public Library facilitates the partnership with the Metro Nashville Public Schools. You can view their customized public catalog and school catalog through the links below.

Nashville Public Library https://catalog.library.nashville.org/
Metro Nashville Public Schools https://school.library.nashville.org/

Addie Van Salisbury, Process Polymath, for Aspen Discovery at ByWater Solutions recently commented on the migration. "Nashville is a great partner for Aspen Discovery because they love to be involved in every step! Members of the Nashville team have added code in the ASpen Discovery manual, tested future development, and worked with community members to make aspen an amazing open-source discovery."

About Nashville Public Library
The mission of Nashville Public Library is to inspire reading, advance learning, and connect their community.

Read more at https://library.nashville.org/about

Ed Brown, Public Information Representative, from Nashville Public Library recently commented on the migration. "We’re very excited for our users to discover all that our upgraded catalog, powered by Aspen, has to offer. More search customization options, the ability to freeze holds, and better language interfaces are just a few of the features that stand out. We love the improvements that Aspen has brought to our online catalog, and we’re confident that our library customers will love them, too."

About Metro Nashville Public Schools
The mission of Metro Nashville Public Schools is to deliver a great public education to every student, every day.

Read more at https://www.mnps.org/about-mnps

About Aspen Discovery
Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with e-content and other 3rd party providers, giving your patrons comprehensive access to all of your materials in one place. Aspen combines your library catalog with e-content, digital archives, and enrichment from all major third-party providers improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR), and much more. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less of an impact on library budgets. For more information about Aspen please visit https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery.

About ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.

For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
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