Academic Libraries

North Bethesda, MD, February 28, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) in Lagos, Nigeria has chosen LibLime to provide them with support and hosting services for LibLime Koha 4.14. The NNMDA looks forward to taking advantage of the rich functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14, including enhanced circulation policies, the Solr search engine, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, and additional functionality for expired and cancelled holds.

EBSCO Publishing announced the availability of the definitive international database for the history of Science, Technology and Medicine. Details on the database are below. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Farmington Hills, MI and Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2013 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and the Smithsonian Institution today announced a licensing agreement to distribute Smithsonian assets into the library and academic space.

Nursing and Allied health professionals will have access to even more full-text journals with the release of CINAHL® Complete™ from EBSCO Publishing. Below is more information about CINAHL® Complete™. Please let me know if you have any questions.

North Bethesda, MD, February 20, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces Fort Scott Public Library has joined the SEKnFind union catalog and is live on the system.

Fort Scott Public Library is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS). SEKLS serves member libraries in over 60 communities in Southeast Kansas and several of those members participate in the SEKnFind union catalog.

The release below details information about how evidence-based medicine is expanding to diagnosis decision-making through the integration of DynaMed and Isabel.

North Bethesda, MD, February 14, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, and WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) announce the Institute of Audio Research (IAR) has gone live on LibLime Koha.

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Duluth, GA —February 14, 2013

Wayne County Public Library System has gone live on Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal consortium. Equinox Software oversaw both data migration and staff training. ESI will also continue to provide on-going system administration and technical support for the entire consortium.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 14 February 2013

Semantico, suppliers of digital publishing solutions to the scholarly and professional market, recently migrated Brill's Linguistic Bibliography Online from a stand alone site to the existing Brill bibliography site: http://bibliographies.brillonline.com.

OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Lynne Bowker of the University of Ottawa, Kyung-Sun Kim of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Sei-Ching Joanna Sin of Nanyang Technological University and Sanghee Oh of Florida State University. The awards were presented January 24 at the ALISE 2013 Annual Conference Awards Reception in Seattle, Washington.