Duluth, Ga., December 17, 2020: Equinox is pleased to welcome the Port Colborne Public Library to Evergreen with their successful migration to the Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (LiNC) in Canada.

The Port Colborne Public Library’s move will support 7,195 patrons and encompass a total of 45,516 bibliographic records. Services provided by Equinox included project management, training, and Evergreen software configuration. Data extraction and bibliographic deduplication were also completed as part of their migration encompassing item, patron, and transaction records.

“We are very happy to be part of LiNC and the Evergreen Community,” said Susan Therrien, director of library services at the Port Colborne Public Library. “We are excited to share resources with our partner libraries in the Niagara region. Library staff love the functionality of Evergreen. The technical support from Equinox during the migration has been nothing short of outstanding. They have been friendly and supportive. Our thanks to everyone on the team.”

LiNC was established in 2010 between four public libraries and a college library and has since grown to 10 organizations. In 2017, the cooperative began resource sharing.

“It is a pleasure working with the Port Colborne librarians during their migration,” said Erica Rohlfs, senior project manager at Equinox. “They are enthusiastic about joining LiNC and expanding the resources offered to their community.”

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative is a nonprofit company engaging in literary, charitable and educational endeavors serving cultural and knowledge institutions. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., Equinox carries forward more than a decade of service and experience with Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS and other open-source library software. At Equinox, 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 1,500 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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Duluth, Ga., December 17, 2020: Equinox is pleased to welcome the Welland Public Library to Evergreen with their successful migration to the Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (LiNC) in Canada.

“The Welland Public Library is thrilled to expand access to library materials for our cardholders and share our collections and resources with member libraries in the LiNC cooperative. Our patrons have responded very well to the new system and are excited to begin borrowing materials available at partner libraries in 2021,” says Julianne Brunet, CEO of the Welland Public Library. “Joining LiNC has strengthened our relationship with neighbouring libraries, and we look forward to working together to improve library services for Niagara residents.”

The Welland Public Library’s move will support 26,134 patrons and encompass a total of 113,709 bibliographic records. Services provided by Equinox included project management, training, and Evergreen software configuration. Data extraction and bibliographic deduplication were completed as part of their migration, including item, patron, and transaction records. LiNC was established in 2010 between four public libraries and a college library and has since grown to 10 organizations. In 2017, the cooperative began resource sharing.

“When Welland Public Library began a migration to LiNC, their libraries had been closed for several months due to COVID-19. The Welland staff, led by Library Director Julianne Brunet, worked diligently and persistently during the summer and fall to ensure a successful data migration. In January, Welland Public Library will begin participating in a resource sharing arrangement to offer their patrons access to items from other LiNC libraries,” says Jennifer Weston, project manager at Equinox. “It has been an absolute joy and privilege to work with Welland Public Library as they join LiNC to offer expanded services to their communities during these unprecedented times.”

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative is a nonprofit company engaging in literary, charitable and educational endeavors serving cultural and knowledge institutions. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., Equinox carries forward more than a decade of service and experience with Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS and other open-source library software. At Equinox, 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 1,500 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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Aspen Discovery announced this week that the 20.17.00 release is available. This minor release includes 12 updates to the Aspen Discovery system.

Mark Noble, Aspen Discovery Developer, recently commented on the release,"This release makes it easier for large complex consortia to customize Aspen Discovery for their members to highlight each member's unique collections. We're excited to continue to make Aspen Discovery the best option for libraries and consortia of all sizes."

Included in the release are improvements to Axis360, Overdrive, and Hoopla integrations. Additionally, increase functionality to System Messages and Website Indexing are in this release.

Read the full release notes here: https://bywatersolutions.com/news/aspen-discovery-announces-20-17-00-rel...

Leiden / Boston / Paderborn / Singapore / Beijing – 11 December 2020

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has signed an agreement with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) to cooperate on digital concordances, a new publication format that draws upon historical practices of concordances, not only to publish the results of research in the customary format such as essays, but also to present the data on which that research is based in a reusable manner. The goal of this cooperation is to investigate how the digital concordance format can be created and maintained sustainably from a technical, organizational and business perspective.

Scholars at MPIWG have rich experience in conducting historical research that generates digital datasets curated from analogue and digital primary sources and are looking for innovative ways to publish their research outputs in a format that integrates the datasets with peer-reviewed essays on the data curation process and key research findings. In this format, technical interfaces allow readers to refer from the data back to the primary sources and to utilise the datasets themselves for their own research purposes. Brill has extensive experience in digital publishing and welcomes this opportunity to work together with MPIWG to expand its publishing services for the research communities focused on Digital Humanities.

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schäfer, Managing Director of MPIWG, said: “Brill has over 300 years of unparalleled experience in publishing high-end scholarly products. With its international portfolio and innovative approach to digital publishing, Brill is the ideal publishing partner for this pilot. We at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science look forward to a fruitful cooperation on digital publication formats that centre discoverable and reusable research data generated from Digital Humanities projects.”

Dr. Jasmin Lange, Chief Publishing Officer at Brill, commented: “In the Humanities we are still at the beginning of publishing datasets in a structured and reusable way. With this project we are at the frontier of this important development. We will focus not only on technical standards but also on user expectations and use cases. Our team is excited about the cooperation with researchers from the MPIWG with whom we share the curiosity to turn a traditional format like a concordance into something entirely new.”

For more information on this collaboration between Brill and MPIWG, contact Brill’s Senior Acquisitions Editor Asian Studies, Dr. Qin Higley, Higley@brill.com.

About MPIWG
Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany, is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena, with projects spanning globally and across all eras of human history. For further information, please visit https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/.

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.

View this media alert online: https://brill.com/newsitem/273/brill-and-max-planck-institute-for-the-hi...

Duluth, Ga., December 10, 2020: Equinox is pleased to welcome the Grimsby Public Library to Evergreen with their successful migration to the Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (LiNC).

The Grimsby Public Library’s move supports 13,793 patrons and encompasses a total of 48,111 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. Evergreen training was also provided by Equinox.

“The Grimsby Public Library is excited to join the shared LiNC Evergreen ILS. This substantially expands the number of items available to our patrons through resource sharing with neighbouring libraries,” said Kathryn Drury, CEO and chief librarian at the Grimsby Public Library. “Equinox has provided excellent technical support throughout this process, including invaluable weekly migration meetings.”

LiNC was established in 2010 between four public libraries and a college library and has since grown to 10 organizations. In 2017, the cooperative began resource sharing.

“Grimsby staff were wonderful to work with,” said Jason Etheridge, senior developer at Equinox, “and our responsive communication led to a smooth migration."

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative is a nonprofit company engaging in literary, charitable, and educational endeavors serving cultural and knowledge institutions. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., Equinox carries forward more than a decade of service and experience with Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS, and other open source library software. At Equinox, 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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