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    August 30th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Duluth, Ga., August 30, 2021: Equinox Open Library Initiative, an expert leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce the migration of Henry County Library to Evergreen ILS as part of the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. Evergreen Integrated Library System is an award winning and trusted library solution used by more than 1,800 libraries worldwide.

    Henry County Library, founded in 1927 by the Women’s Civic Club, was the first library in Clinton, Missouri. Since then, it has grown to support 10,640 patrons with a collection of 58,935 bibliographic records. The migration project was supported by Equinox’s remote training team of degreed librarians. Henry County Library will be hosted on Sequoia which supports library automation services with 99.9% uptime.

    "I have really enjoyed working with the migration team at Equinox,” said Debbie Jones, Assistant Director at Henry County Library. “They have been very helpful and supportive - a fantastic group of people to work with. It was because of them that the transition to Missouri Evergreen has been smooth and painless!"
    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. The consortium is 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.

    “It was a wonderful experience working with Henry County Library and the support team at the Missouri Evergreen Consortium,” said Rogan Hamby, Data and Project Analyst at Equinox. “Henry County Library staff dove right into the project and were engaged at every step which made my job of enabling them to get up and running as smoothly as possible a pleasure. I have every confidence that the Missouri
    Evergreen Consortium is going to benefit from Henry County Library's contributions and that Henry County Library will benefit from the wonderful Evergreen community in Missouri.”
    Follow Equinox Open Library Initiative on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Vimeo for the latest updates.

    To receive news directly in your inbox: https://www.equinoxOLI.org/#signup
    For more information:
    Laura Barry
    Communications Coordinator
    Equinox Open Library Initiative, Inc.
    EquinoxOLI.org
    laura.barry@equinoxOLI.org
    877.OPEN.ILS (877.673.6457)

    About Equinox Open Library Initiative
    Equinox Open Library Initiative provides innovative open source software for libraries of all types and delivers extraordinary service at exceptional value. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., Equinox Open Library Initiative builds upon more than a decade of trusted service and technical expertise, providing consulting services, software development, hosting, training, and support for Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS, and other open source library software. To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxOLI.org. For Equinox Library Services Canada, please visit https://www.equinoxOLI.ca.

    About Evergreen
    Evergreen Integrated Library System is an award winning and trusted library solution used by more than 1,800 libraries worldwide. Evergreen ILS is a web-based and mobile-friendly system which provides attractive, easy to use interfaces for library acquisitions, administration, cataloging, circulation, OPAC, reports, course reserves, and serials functionality.

    Evergreen ILS is an enterprise level system designed to manage a scalable catalog shared across libraries, including large public and academic library consortia. While designed for large collections, Evergreen is suitable for libraries of any size and type from government libraries to museum and special library collections. Its flexibility enables libraries to configure policies and settings that work best for their communities and to maintain ownership of their library and systems data.

    Evergreen differs from other library management systems in that there are no licensing fees. The software is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0 or higher. For more information about Evergreen: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/evergreen/.

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    August 2nd, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Duluth, Ga., August 2, 2021: Equinox Open Library Initiative is pleased to announce the successful implementation of Koha ILS at the Vermont Jazz Center of Brattleboro, Vermont, with funding provided by the Equinox Open Source Grant. The grant provides implementation, training, hosting, and support services for Koha ILS, an open source integrated library system used by libraries worldwide.

    First launched in 2019, the Equinox Open Source Grant was inspired by the vibrant open source community and the belief that every community deserves to benefit from a searchable, accessible, and thriving library. Previous recipients include Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico (BNPR) and Spark Central of Spokane, Washington.

    “The Vermont Jazz Center’s cataloging capabilities using Koha provide us the technology and platform to allow aficionados and academics access to the resources available within our holdings,” said Eugene Uman, Executive Director at the Vermont Jazz Center. “We are grateful beyond words to Equinox for awarding us an Equinox Open Source Grant so that we could afford the high quality training that positions us as team players in the world of jazz research. It is thanks to the friendly and expert training we received from the Equinox team that we are moving in the direction of self-sustainability.”

    The Vermont Jazz Center’s history reaches back to the early 1970’s, when its founding director, jazz guitarist Attila Zoller, would invite musicians and students from New York City to unwind at his home in Newfane, Vermont. The organization incorporated in 1974 and was awarded 501(c)(3) non-profit status in 1989.

    “I was excited to see the Vermont Jazz Center awarded the Equinox Open Source grant,” said Erica Rohlfs, Senior Implementation Project Manager at Equinox. “It's been an absolute pleasure working with their team. The Vermont Jazz Center has a clear vision of how they want to share their archives with the public. It was inspiring to play a role in watching their vision come to fruition.”
    More details about Equinox’s grant initiatives can be found here: https://www.equinoxoli.org/collaborate/#grant. Follow Equinox Open Library Initiative on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Vimeo for the latest updates.
    To receive news directly in your inbox: https://www.equinoxOLI.org/#signup

    For more information:
    Laura Barry
    Communications Coordinator
    Equinox Open Library Initiative, Inc.
    EquinoxOLI.org
    laura.barry@equinoxOLI.org
    877.OPEN.ILS (877.673.6457)

    About Equinox Open Library Initiative
    Equinox Open Library Initiative provides innovative open source software for libraries of all types and delivers extraordinary service at exceptional value. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., Equinox Open Library Initiative builds upon more than a decade of trusted service and technical expertise, providing consulting services, software development, hosting, training, and support for Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS, and other open source library software. To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxOLI.org. For Equinox Library Services Canada, please visit https://www.equinoxOLI.ca.

    Vermont Jazz Center
    Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) is a 501(c)3, non-profit jazz programming and education institution that provides high quality jazz to a rural area in Southeastern Vermont. VJC’s history reaches back to the early 1970s, when its founding Director, jazz guitarist Attila Zoller, would invite musicians and students from New York City to unwind at his home in Newfane, Vermont. The organization incorporated in 1974 and was awarded 501(c)(3) non-profit status in 1989. To learn more about VJC please visit https://vtjazz.org/.

    About Koha ILS
    Created in 1999 by Katipo Communications for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand, Koha is the first open source Integrated Library System to be used worldwide. The software is a full-featured ILS with a dual-database design (search engine and RDBMS) built to be compliant with library standards. Koha’s OPAC, staff, and self-checkout interfaces are all web applications. Distributed under the General Public License (GPL), libraries are free to use and install Koha themselves or to purchase support and development services. For more information on Koha, please visit https://koha-community.org.

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    July 29th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    New Partnership Gives ASECS Members Access to the World’s Largest Collection on the Eighteenth-Century, Advancing Research and Instruction of the Period

    FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. & Fishkill, N.Y. – July 28, 2021 – Gale, a Cengage company, has partnered with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), the world’s largest organization of eighteenth-century scholars, to provide its North American members[i] with access to Gale’s Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO). Now ASECS members have access to the most comprehensive online historical archive on the eighteenth-century, enabling scholarship, enhanced teaching and advanced study of the era.

    “ECCO is an essential resource for scholars of the eighteenth-century, but many people working in the field do not currently have access to it. They have to travel across the world to research libraries to view and study eighteenth-century collections, which can be very expensive,” said Mark Boonshoft, executive director at ASECS. “By providing online access to ECCO to our members in North America, we help ameliorate this inequity and better support research and teaching on the eighteenth-century. We are thrilled to partner with Gale to make this happen.”

    ECCO contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800, offering scholars full-text searching across 26 million pages of books and directories, bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements and works by both celebrated and lesser¬known authors. Expanding the ECCO archive, the titles in Part II have an emphasis on literature, social science, and religion. It also includes nearly fifty thousand titles and seven million pages from the library holdings of the British Library, the Bodleian Library, University of Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

    With ASECS members coming from a wide range of disciplines and professions beyond academia, ECCO access will:

    • Put the world’s largest archive on the eighteenth-century in the hands of hundreds of scholars, creating greater public awareness and understanding of the eighteen-century world.

    • Provides access to independent scholars (those without university affiliation), making it easier for them to conduct research on the eighteenth-century.

    • Expand scholarship and research to less endowed institutions and independent researchers, with continued access to eighteenth-century content outside of academia.

    “As the leading provider of digital humanities learning tools and primary sources to support research, Gale is committed to promoting scholarship on the eighteenth-century,” said Roger Strong, vice president of sales for academic libraries at Gale. “This partnership with ASECS enable us to more closely align resources like ECCO to course integration and digital humanities pedagogy, including joint efforts around the sharing of research outcomes, and the continued development of primary source tools and platforms to support the future needs of ASECS and other learned societies.”

    ASECS north American members can access ECCO at: https://www.asecs.org/ecco.

    About American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
    The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Our members are literary scholars and writers, historians, theorists of gender, race, sexuality, disability, nation and empire; philosophers and political theorists; art historians and artists; musicologists and musicians; theater historians and practitioners; biographers and bibliographers; and specialists in other humanistic, artistic, and social scientific fields with a range of broad and more particular interests. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment in which all members participate fully in the exchange of knowledge and ideas. For more information please visit: https://www.asecs.org/.

    Follow ASECS on:
    • Twitter - @ASECSOffice
    • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/asecsoffice/

    About Cengage and Gale
    Cengage, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide. Gale, a Cengage company, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 60 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when and how people need it. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.gale.com.

    Follow Gale on:
    • Twitter - @galecengage
    • Gale Blog - http://blog.gale.com/
    • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage/
    • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/gale/

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    [i] Due to pre-existing licensing arrangements, access to Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online is limited to ASECS members in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

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    July 28th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Cornell University is Now Live on the FOLIO Library Services Platform with EBSCO FOLIO
    ~ Open Source Library Services Community Member Implements FOLIO ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — July 28, 2021 — Cornell University Library, a founding member of the FOLIO project, has become the largest research institution to adopt the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP) with hosting and service support from EBSCO Information Services’ EBSCO FOLIO. EBSCO supported the migration from Cornell’s existing integrated library system (ILS) and will continue to provide hosting and service support to Cornell University Library.

    Cornell co-developed and implemented FOLIO as an open source, flexible, collaborative and sustainable solution to support multiple library operations. By choosing to run FOLIO through a hosting and service provider, libraries such as Cornell are making the decision to outsource LSP support, avoiding the need to develop that capacity in-house. EBSCO is among the service providers that are part of the project and are now offering hosting and support services, providing more choice for libraries.

    Debra Howell, Director of Information Technology Operations at Cornell University Library, says that being heavily involved in the FOLIO community gave Cornell a stake in the open source project. “Moving to FOLIO gives us the opportunity to leverage the hard work of our staff members who have helped build the FOLIO platform. By taking advantage of EBSCO’s implementation and hosting services we can easily integrate our library services and leverage EBSCO’s role in developing FOLIO.”

    Cornell recently transitioned to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and will be integrating FOLIO with the EBSCO Knowledge Base, as well as GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO. By moving to EDS and EBSCO Knowledge Services, Cornell will be able to leverage APIs that work with third-party systems already in place. Using the EBSCO Knowledge Base will ensure that data remains optimized, while providing a better user experience.

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the preeminent provider of online research content and search technologies serving academic, school and public libraries; healthcare and medical institutions; corporations; and government agencies around the world. From research, acquisition management, subscription services and discovery to clinical decision support and patient care, learning, and research and development, EBSCO provides institutions with access to content and resources to serve the information and workflow needs of their users and organizations. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., a family owned company since 1944. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com.

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    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com
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    July 27th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Join the ByWater team and Koha community members for a live event to help the Koha community squash some bugs! We are hosting this event on Tuesday, August 10th at 11am EST- pop in at anytime to join us during this two hour event!

    When is the Bug Squashing Bonanza?
    We will be hosting a YouTube Live session where we will SQUASH SOME BUGS!!!! Come in and chat with us and ask questions any time during this two hour live event.

    Find the event in your time zone using the UTC converter: https://bit.ly/3y9mqUe

    Join Us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bywatersolutions/live

    What is this?
    The Koha community has in the past created a day for volunteers to come together and squash some bugs! ByWater would like to also contribute to this effort and will host a live event to allow users, ByWater team members, and Koha community members to join in and sign off some bugs. We want to see Koha as robust and powerful as it can be, so with a joint effort, we believe we can achieve great things.

    Who can attend?
    Anyone! If you have never explored the Koha Dashboard or yet learned to sign off on a bug, today is the day to expand your Koha knowledge and learn to give back! If you have contributed to the community in this way and would like to join in, please do so! We are so excited about this opportunity to work with fellow Koha users and chat about the future of Koha.

    Koha Community Resources
    There are lots of ways to get involved in the Koha community, here are some great resources to get you started.

    Chat on Developers and other Koha Community members on IRC: https://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/

    IRC Channel Tips and Tricks: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/IRC_Channel

    IRC Regulars: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/IRC_Regulars

    Community Facebook: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Community_Facebook

    Bugzilla: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/

    Koha Sandboxes: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes

    ByWater Solutions Sandboxes: https://sandbox.bywatersolutions.com

    Koha Dashboard: https://dashboard.koha-community.org/

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