SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 11, 2010 — Mosio’s Text a Librarian, the leader in text messaging solutions for libraries, today announced its mobile donations initiative to assist non-profit libraries and library organizations in setting up mobile fundraising campaigns via SMS text messaging.
“The success of the Text For Haiti campaign provided mainstream exposure to the collective impact of micro-donations and the effectiveness of fundraising through text messaging” said Noel Chandler, Mosio’s CEO. “Mobile donations are an excellent use of SMS technology. We’re using our experience and relationships in the wireless industry to help libraries implement a new method of raising awareness and funds.”
Library budgets are being slashed while patron visits and demand for services have soared. Mobile donations offer a unique opportunity for libraries to augment existing public fundraising efforts. Individuals in the community can give to their library in manageable donations of $5-$10 through a simple mobile technology.
Text messaging is the most widely used form of mobile communication in the world. Americans are now texting twice as much as they are talking on their cell phones. Organizations interested in taking advantage of SMS technologies need to determine which mobile solutions best serve their audience, resources and budget.
“Navigating your way through mobile services can be a daunting process and mobile donations are no different,” said Jay Sachdev, Mosio’s CTO. “Our goal is to help make it as easy as possible for libraries to add text messaging to their existing fundraising campaigns.”
To learn more about Mosio’s mobile donations initiative for libraries, please visit www.textalibrarian.com/mobiledonations.
About Mosio’s Text a Librarian
Text a Librarian is a mobile reference service technology developed specifically for libraries. Built on Mosio’s award-winning mobile questions and answers platform, Text a Librarian enables libraries to reach more patrons on the go through their mobile phones. For more information regarding Text a Librarian, please visit www.textalibrarian.com
About Mosio
Mosio is a mobile technologies agency providing messaging and mobile web solutions for businesses and organizations to connect with customers who are on-the-go. Mosio provides interactive mobile strategy and development services utilizing text messaging and mobile web applications to amplify marketing programs, increase business efficiencies and drive information engagement. www.mosio.com
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Comments Off We are very pleased to announce that seven new publishers have recently joined the Current Scholarship Program. While work continues to sign additional publishers and titles to the Program, with these new partners, libraries will be able to license and provide their users with access to the current issues of at least 100 journals on the JSTOR platform beginning in 2011.
The publishers that recently joined the Program include:
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Michigan Historical Review, Central Michigan University
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Historical Society
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
University of Nebraska Press
Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University
These publishers bring a wealth of ground-breaking scholarship to the Program. Titles include The William & Mary Quarterly and The Journal of African American History, as well as other core publications in African American Studies, Feminist Studies, and History.
We are very excited to have these publishers working with us to improve access to current journal content. Librarians and users tell us consistently that adding current issues to JSTOR is important to them, and we know that more is better. Reaching 100 titles is a first step, and we continue to strive to grow the Program with partners who share our commitment to serving the needs of libraries, faculty, and students.
A final list of publishers and titles that will be available in the Current Scholarship Program for the 2011 subscription year will be coming soon, and pricing for the current issues of these journals will be available in early summer. In the meantime, as you begin your collection development planning for next year, a presentation from ALA Midwinter about the Program benefits for libraries and details about how your institution will be able to license titles in the Program is available online. You can also contact us directly.
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Comments Off We are very pleased to announce that seven new publishers have recently joined the Current Scholarship Program. While work continues to sign additional publishers and titles to the Program, with these new partners, libraries will be able to license and provide their users with access to the current issues of at least 100 journals on the JSTOR platform beginning in 2011.
The publishers that recently joined the Program include:
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Michigan Historical Review, Central Michigan University
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Historical Society
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
University of Nebraska Press
Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University
These publishers bring a wealth of ground-breaking scholarship to the Program. Titles include The William & Mary Quarterly and The Journal of African American History, as well as other core publications in African American Studies, Feminist Studies, and History.
We are very excited to have these publishers working with us to improve access to current journal content. Librarians and users tell us consistently that adding current issues to JSTOR is important to them, and we know that more is better. Reaching 100 titles is a first step, and we continue to strive to grow the Program with partners who share our commitment to serving the needs of libraries, faculty, and students.
A final list of publishers and titles that will be available in the Current Scholarship Program for the 2011 subscription year will be coming soon, and pricing for the current issues of these journals will be available in early summer. In the meantime, as you begin your collection development planning for next year, a presentation from ALA Midwinter about the Program benefits for libraries and details about how your institution will be able to license titles in the Program is available online. You can also contact us directly.
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IPSWICH, Mass. — March 10, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is announcing the release of Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide™ (FFAB) and Waters & Oceans Worldwide™ (WOW). These new databases represent database combinations which have never been attempted. Each database covers an extensive timeframe and comprehensive geographic coverage of regions & water bodies as well as complete world coverage of all aquatic issues. FFAB and WOW are highly significant resources for researchers in both freshwater and marine environments, and to researchers working on both the living and non-living aspects of all aquatic environments.
Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide (FFAB)
Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide covers research and management issues relating to all aspects of ichthyology, fisheries, aquatic biology/ecology, and aquaculture. The database includes content from Fish & Fisheries Worldwide, and Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture & Fisheries Resources (ABAFR). Fish & Fisheries Worldwide was formerly a NISC South Africa database available on the EBSCOhost® platform, while Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture & Fisheries Resources was formerly a NISC US database. In October 2008, EBSCO purchased NISC, Inc. including ABAFR. With the addition of other 19 databases including FISHLIT, Aquatic Biology Citations, Fisheries Review, the Fishing Industry Research Index and a database from the WorldFish Center’s Library, this database aggregation includes some of the world’s major fish and fisheries databases.
Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide includes research on aquaculture species ranging from culture and propagation to genetics, behavior, ecology and habitat. As a result of merging all of these resources, the expanded database offers more than one million citations and abstracts dating back to the 1970s.
Waters & Oceans Worldwide (WOW)
With comprehensive world coverage, of both freshwater and marine environments, Waters & Oceans Worldwide includes research ranging from surface and groundwater to coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment, records date back to the 1970s and earlier. This resource includes all content from Water Resources Worldwide, a former a NISC South Africa database available on the EBSCOhost platform, encompassing six of the world’s major water resource databases: WATERLIT, The Freshwater Biological Association Library Catalogue, The International Water Management Institute Database, AQUAREF, ACQUIRE and Delft Hydro. In addition to these resources, Waters & Oceans Worldwide also includes Marine, Oceanographic and Freshwater Resource (MOFR), another database formerly available from NISC US and acquired by EBSCO including Hydroarchive and the databases of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory and the oceanographic Library in Southampton. The combination of these databases offers a tremendous increase in content with records growing from 854,840 to over 1,850,000.
FFAB and WOW are two of many environment databases available from EBSCO Publishing and provide comprehensive and unique coverage.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source®, CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, INSPEC®, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index™, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.
EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point—detailed metadata from important content sources, OPAC loading, EBSCOhost database indexing and full text and metadata from institutional repositories and special collections (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com
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For Immediate Release
Toronto Book Fans to get “First Bite” of All – Canadian Vampire Anthology – BYOG (Bring your own garlic!)
(Calgary) Toronto book fans will meet some of Canada’s top horror writers at the EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead book launch event on April 9th, at the World’s Biggest Bookstore.
EVOLVE editor Nancy Kilpatrick along with authors Kelley Armstrong, Rio Youers, Claude Lalumière, Kevin Nunn and others – including Natasha Beaulieu (Montreal), and Jerome Stueart (Whitehorse) – will join Toronto’s Gemma Files and Sandra Kasturi for the event. Several authors will be flying in from their appearance at the World Horror Convention in Brighton UK to take part in the Toronto launch.
But what is EVOLVE?
Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff and twenty-two other Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers re-imagine the future in EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, the first all-Canadian vampire anthology of original fiction – one of the most unusual and compelling collections ever compiled. EVOLVE is published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Canada’s largest genre dedicated publisher, who is celebrating their 10th anniversary this year.
“We are really looking forward to this event”, says EVOLVE publisher Brian Hades. “We have had some phenomenal coverage of this book, and there is a real buzz for its release right across the country! We are delighted that so many of the authors will be joining us for the party – and it is a great way, as well, to start off our anniversary celebrations!”
Who is in EVOLVE?
EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead includes works by: Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff, Claude Lalumière, Mary E. Choo, Sandra Kasturi, Bradley Somer, Kevin Cockle, Rebecca Bradley, Heather Clitheroe, Colleen Anderson, Sandra Wickham, Rhea Rose, Ronald Hore, Bev Vincent, Jennifer Greylyn, Steve Vernon, Michael Skeet, Kevin Nunn, Victoria Fisher, Rio Youers, Gemma Files, Natasha Beaulieu, Claude Bolduc, and Jerome Stueart.
About Editor Nancy Kilpatrick
Editor and author Nancy Kilpatrick has penned 18 novels, more than 200 short stories, 5 collections of stories, and has been the editor for 9 other anthologies. Her body of work involves vampires and dark fantasy fiction. She won an Arthur Ellis Award for the best mystery story, is a three times Bram Stoker finalist and a five times finalist for the Aurora Award.
Launch information
EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
World’s Biggest Bookstore
(7:00 PM)
20 Edward Street (just off Yonge St., North of Dundas),
Toronto,ON
Book Information
EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
ISBN: 978-1-894063-33-3
$15.95 USA
$16.95 CDN
Pages: 304
Trade Paperback (5.5″ x 8.5″)
Websites:
http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/evolve/ev-catalog.html (Publisher’s site: sample pdf available)
http://vampires-evolve.com (special limited editions – including coffin edition…see under “Purchase” for details.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEKdqoj53fk&feature=player_embedded (book trailer)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=237581542711&ref=ts (Evolve Facebook group page.)
For further information, or to set up interviews with Nancy Kilpatrick or any of the EVOLVE authors, please contact:
Janice Shoults
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
403.254.0160
events@hadespublications.com
A complete media package is available upon request.
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