Academic Libraries

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Duluth, GA — August 1, 2012

Lee County Public Library in North Carolina has gone live with Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal Project. Equinox Software provided data migration

and training services and will continue to provide ongoing technical support for the growing consortium.

Brill announces a new forthcoming book series -- The Green Scholars Initiative: Papyrus Series, Edited by Dirk Obbink and Jerry Pattengale – that includes rare, unpublished papyri texts from the private Green Collection. Jeffrey Fish is serving as the editor of volume one.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) -- 1 August 2012

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Birmingham, Ala. – July 31, 2012 – EBSCONET® Subscription Management has released a new user interface with improved usability and flexibility, in addition to enhanced functionality for renewing e-journal package content.

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The LCC International University Library Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.' forefront provider of Koha (www.koha-community.org) support, announced today that the LCC International University Library in Klaipėda, Lithuania is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

North Bethesda, MD, July 26, 2012: LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces Independence Community College has joined the SEKLS Koha union catalog.

Independence Community College is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS). SEKLS serves member libraries in over 60 cities in Southeast Kansas and several of those members participate in a Koha union catalog.

Bethesda, MD, July 20, 2012 LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Athens Independent School District of Athens, Texas, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.10. The School District is running a union catalog with the combined collections of three elementary school libraries, one middle school library, and one high school library.

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July 18, 2012, Medford, NJ—Information Today, Inc. [ITI] has announced the publication of The Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed by David Shumaker.

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) joins a growing number of journals and publishers in implementing the Almetric badge on its article pages. Altmetric provides a means of capturing and tracking the online conversations generated by scholarly articles. The informal impact of scholarship, particularly within librarianship, is overlooked by formal measures like citation counts; the Altmetric score looks at tweets, blog posts, citation managers and other online sources that indicate interest in each article.

North Bethesda, MD, July 12, 2012 LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) announce the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.0. All WALDO member libraries will undergo production upgrades over the next few weeks.

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Duluth, GA — July 12, 2012

Chicago is Equinox Software’s kind of town. The company will make its first Special Library Association Conference appearance as exhibitors at booth #269 for the 2012 meeting.

According to Grace Dunbar, Equinox Vice President, "This is an exciting opportunity for us because SLA attendees are very tech savvy. We recognize that special libraries have specific needs for their ILS and are looking forward to showing them how flexible and cost effective open source options can be."