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    December 17th, 2015LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP, FAAP, Wins Third Annual EBSCO/PEMSoft Achievement Award
    ~ Award Recognizes Significant Contributions to Pediatric Emergency Medicine ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. - December 17, 2015 – The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) announces the winner of the third annual EBSCO/PEMSoft Achievement Award is Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP, FAAP. The award is conferred annually upon an emergency physician or pediatric emergency medicine physician who has contributed significantly to evidence-based medicine in pediatric emergency care and will be officially presented to Dr. Gausche-Hill in March 2016 at the Advanced Pediatric Assembly meeting in Orlando, Florida.

    Dr. Gausche-Hill is the Medical Director for Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the EMS Fellowship Director at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She is nationally known for her work as an EMS researcher and educator, and for her leadership in the field of EMS and pediatric emergency medicine. She is best known for her study of pre-hospital airway management for children published in JAMA 2000 and her work on the National Pediatric Readiness Project published in JAMA–Pediatrics in 2015. Dr. Gausche-Hill currently serves on the American Board of Emergency Medicine Board of Directors.

    She has received numerous awards, including:
    • The National Education Award in Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) (2004)
    • The Martha Bushore-Fallis APLS award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (2005)
    • Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women (2013)
    • The Distinguished Service in EMS Medal by the State of California (2013)
    • The Outstanding Contribution in EMS award (2014) as well as the Speaker of the Year Award by ACEP

    The EBSCO/PEMSoft Achievement Award includes $1,000 honoraria, for-registration, travel and hotel for ACEP’s Pediatric Advanced Assembly and a year’s subscription to PEMSoft, EBSCO’s invaluable point-of-care clinical information resource. Nominees for the award need to have contributed first author publications and/or contributed to practice-changing innovations in electronic publication or technology, which have meaningfully enhanced emergency care of children.

    ACEP is the national medical specialty society representing emergency medicine. ACEP is committed to advancing emergency care through continuing education, research and public education. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, ACEP has 53 chapters representing each state, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. A Government Services Chapter represents emergency physicians employed by military branches and other government agencies.

    About EBSCO Health
    EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, is a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions, healthcare business intelligence, and medical research information for the healthcare industry. EBSCO Health users include professionals in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Flagship products include CINAHL®, DynaMed Plus™, Nursing Reference Center™, clinical e-books and e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™, licensed databases (such as MEDLINE®), plus EBSCONET®. EBSCO databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the electronic resource favored by libraries around the world.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    December 16th, 2015LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    12/16/2015
    CONTACT:
    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
    sales@bywatersolutions.com

    Texas State Law Library Goes Live on ByWater Solutions Koha Support

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Texas State Law Library of Austin, TX. is now live on their Koha open source integrated library system.

    ByWater Solutions has completed the migration of the Libraries' more than 200,000 titles earlier this year and is providing ongoing hosting and support services to the library. The Texas State Law Library's customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://txsll.bywatersolutions.com

    Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian and Network Administrator, commented on their decision to migrate to Koha with ByWater:

    "We are very happy with Koha. It was important to us to find a library system that was customizable. With Koha, we can customize features, look and feel and we have direct access to the data to use in other applications. We're only limited by our imaginations. The move to open source has given us the freedom to create the library system we want. Working with ByWater Solutions to migrate from our previous system went very well. They've provided excellent service to us every step of the way, through planning, migration, go-live and everyday use."

    About the Texas State Law Library:
    The Texas State Law Library serves the legal research needs of the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Office of the Attorney General, other state agencies and commissions, and the citizens of the state. We are a public law library.

    To learn about the library materials available at the Texas State Law Library, see our library resources page. Also see a description of the services we provide to the public. Our library policies are also available. Please contact us if you have any questions about the materials available at the Texas State Law Library.

    See chapter 91 of the Texas Government Code for the legislation that created the Texas State Law Library. For more information please visit: http://www.sll.texas.gov/

    About Koha:
    Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). 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 support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS 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 to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, 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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    December 12th, 2015LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    North Bethesda, MD, December 11, 2015 – The Mongui Maduro Library has gone live on LibLime Academic Koha 5.12. The experienced Library staff at the institution worked closely with the LibLime Project Management team to successfully migrate bibliographic, item, authority, patron and transactional data from several legacy systems to LibLime Academic Koha. The Library will take advantage of much of the functionality offered in the application, including:

    • Single screen cataloging editor with MARC21 validation and the option to embed local cataloging guidelines; with support for MARC Authority records, MARC Bibliographic records, and MARC Holdings records
    • Circulation functionality supporting sophisticated holds management, course reserves, term loans and proxy borrowing
    • Discovery Layer offering a cloud-based, fast and locally customized index of a library’s information assets, with an easy-to-use and powerful way of accessing all of that information from a single search box
    • EDI-compliant acquisitions with multi-tier fund hierarchy, purchase suggestions, invoice creation, and year-end rollover

    About Mongui Maduro Library
    The Mongui Maduro Library located in Curacao, is a state of the art library containing over 10,000 items and is also very eco-friendly. The Mongui Maduro Library is a part of the S.A.L. Mongui Maduro Foundation, which was established on March 5, 1974 by the widow and daughter of Salomon (Mongui) Abraham Levy Maduro. The foundation also consists of the Plantation house or “Rooi Catootje” which contains antique furniture and memorabilia of the Mongui Maduro family.

    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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    December 10th, 2015LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    EBSCO Information Services Donates Digital Content to Worldreader to Support Literacy in the Developing World
    ~ Readers Can Easily Access the Books through Worldreader Mobile ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — December 10, 2015 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Worldreader, a global non-profit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, are partnering to bring non-fiction content to children and their families in sub-Saharan Africa and India. The proprietary reference articles donated by EBSCO will help Worldreader as it aims to reach 10 million readers with its digital library by the end of 2015.

    The reference articles will be available via Worldreader Mobile, allowing readers to access the information through the cell phones they already have. EBSCO worked with Worldreader to select learning resources that were easy to read on a cell phone and included subjects Worldreader knows readers are interested in such as science, literature, poetry, biographies, history, philosophy, math and more.

    “Reading is transformative; especially in the developing world where access to books is often limited or non-existent,” says Danielle Zacarias, Director of Content, Worldreader. “This partnership with EBSCO enables Worldreader to provide a variety of non-fiction reference articles filled with real-world knowledge about science, history, math, and subjects that will educate, inspire, and empower growth and hope in the parts of the world that need it most.”

    EBSCO Executive Vice President of Product Management and Customer Satisfaction Stratton Lloyd says that both EBSCO and Worldreader share a commitment to serving people’s information needs. “EBSCO is a mission-driven organization dedicated to improving information access globally. We have a long history of partnering with global organizations, such as Worldreader, and we are honored to join them in this partnership in hopes that it can help empower individuals throughout sub-Saharan Africa and India.”

    Donated content covers a variety of topics. For example, the ELL Reference Center™ collection of content is designed to give students and those who are new to the English language information on science, history, civics, life skills, mathematics and literature. Our World and Country Profiles collections feature content that explores the capital cities of the world, including history, culture, economy and culture of each city, and provide country profiles that bring both dimension and context to the study of history, government and current events. The Solar System collection features essential coverage of all aspects of the Earth’s solar system, from details on each of the major planets and satellites, interplanetary phenomena and cosmological context. Research Starters Business™ offers comprehensive summaries on discipline-specific topics relevant to the contemporary business world.

    About Worldreader
    Worldreader is a global non-profit that uses technology to bring digital books to every child and her family, so they can improve their lives. In its first five years, Worldreader has reached 2.6 million readers in 50 countries with a digital library of 27,000 local and international e-books via e-readers and mobile phones, and plans to reach 15 million readers by 2018. Founded in 2010 by former Microsoft and Amazon executive David Risher, and former Marketing Director at Barcelona’s ESADE Business School Colin McElwee, Worldreader works with device manufacturers, local and international publishers, governments, education officials, and local communities to bring books to all. Readers anywhere and on any connected mobile device can read by visiting: read.worldreader.org. For more information on Worldreader, please visit http://www.worldreader.org.
    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 8,000 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 750,000 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
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    December 10th, 2015LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    12/9/2015
    CONTACT:
    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
    sales@bywatersolutions.com

    ByWater Solutions Welcomes Nick Clemens to the Role of Development Support

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Nick Clemens to ByWater's talented development team. Nick will join the ByWater team in assisting partners with and developing new features for their Koha Open Source ILS.

    Nick received his M.L.I.S. from the Palmer School and his B.A. from NYU. He has served in many roles in libraries in Vermont, coordinating a four library system within a 59 library consortium and providing support to the consortium at large. At home he is surrounded by his ever growing collection of books, his family, and one too many cats.

    Nick commented on his decision to join ByWater Solutions:

    "Having been a ByWater partner for several years I am ecstatic to join the team and return the excellent enthusiastic service that I have received to other partners."

    Nicole Engard, VP of Community Outreach, commented:

    "In all my years of working with Koha I have never managed a more enthusiastic employee. Nick has hit the ground running and his knowledge of Koha from both the company and the partner side is a great asset to us all."

    About ByWater Solutions:

    With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, support options and development of the enterprise class open source library system, Koha. Offering a 24/7 technical helpline, ByWater Solutions’ clients have the support system they need to make their software work for them. ByWater Solutions pledges to share 100% of all developed code to the Koha community for the strengthening and advancement of the Koha ILS. For more information about ByWater Solutions, please visit: http://www.bywatersolutions.com

    About Koha:

    Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). 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

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