Library Technology Guides

ByWater Solutions promotes Catrina Berka to Lead Educator and Enica Davis to Lead Data Migration Specialist. ByWater Solutions, America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced the promotion of Catrina Berka to Lead Educator and Enica Davis to Lead Data Migration Specialist. [Full Announcement].

NEH Announces $26.2 Million for 238 Humanities Projects Nationwide. The National Endowment for the Humanities announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians' ideas of life and death; provide for treatment and digitization of photo collections at Appalshop documenting Appalachia's social, cultural, and economic history that were damaged by catastrophic flooding in Kentucky; and support archaeological research at the sites of two former boarding schools on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana. [Full Announcement].

PALNI awards grants to fund eight open textbooks. The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) has awarded PALSave Textbook Creation Grants to fund eight open textbooks from faculty authors at its supported institutions. The grants will allow these educators to develop open textbooks that are freely available online, making them part of a statewide effort to reduce the cost of course materials for college students. Financed with support from Lilly Endowment Inc., authors will receive up to $6,500 per project. [Full Announcement].

PALSave Textbook Creation Grant program releases first open textbook, The Bible and Music. In “The Bible and Music,” the first open textbook published with a grant from the PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning program, author James McGrath, Ph.D., Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University, explores the intersection of faith and music while inviting readers to experience the material firsthand through interactive video and audio clips. [Full Announcement].

ByWater Solutions Welcomes Catrina Berka. ByWater Solutions announced that Catrina Berka joined the ByWater Solutions Education team. [Full Announcement].

LexisNexis announces acquisition of legal transaction management platform Closd. LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced that it has acquired Closd, a top-tier provider of legal transaction management in Europe, founded in 2018. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Closd operates a legal transaction management SaaS platform that makes the management of complex legal projects simpler, safer and faster. Its end-to-end legal project management solution includes automated workflow management, secure document sharing, data rooms, electronic closing, transaction bible generation and document archiving. [Full Announcement].

Renowned digital humanities researchers begin computing cultural heritage in the cloud. Three renowned researchers in digital humanities and computer science are joining forces with the Library of Congress on three inaugural Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud projects, exploring how biblical quotations, photographic styles and “fuzzy searches” reveal more about the collections in the world's largest Library than first meets the eye. [Full Announcement].

Recorded Books. RBmedia expands Christian audio offering with three exclusive publishing deals. RBmedia, the largest audiobook producer in the world, today announced exclusive partnerships between its Christian Audio brand and three leading Christian publishers. In addition, RBmedia has welcomed Mark Warner as the new Christian Audio publisher. [Full Announcement].

The Episcopal Public Library of Barcelona to add its collections to WorldCat. The Episcopal Public Library of Barcelona, the oldest preserved public access library in the city of Barcelona, has announced the addition of more than 124,000 bibliographic records of its catalogue collections to WorldCat. [Full Announcement].

The Emmaus Bible College Library goes live on ByWater Solutions Koha support. ByWater Solutions announced that the Emmaus Bible College Library, of Dubique, IA. is now live on Koha with ByWater Solutions! ByWater completed the migration of the library’s 150,000 plus holdings from Winnebago Spectrum and is providing ongoing support and hosting services to them. [Full Announcement].

Readers around the globe join largest digital book club to devour Art of the Pie. Grab your aprons and rolling pins because Big Library Read, the first global digital Book Club through libraries, is back starting March 16. This time, you’re heading to the kitchen. Called “one of the best cookbooks of 2016” by NPR, Oprah.com and others, Art of the Pie (Countryman Press) is the featured eBook in the worldwide digital version of a local book club. Millions of readers from around the world will have access, at the same time, to this “Pie-Baking Bible” from Kate McDermott through participating public libraries’ digital catalogs. More than 20,000 libraries in 28 countries will participate. [Full Announcement].

Odyssey Networks select LibLynx to manage access for new institutional service . Odyssey Networks, a nonprofit focusing on using media to build interfaith understanding, has selected LibLynx to provide access management for their new, institutional service. [Full Announcement].

God's Bible School goes live on ByWater Solutions' Koha support. ByWater Solutionsannounced that the Libraries of God's Bible School of Cincinnati, OH. are now live on their Koha open source integrated library system with support from ByWater Solutions. [Full Announcement].

ProQuest transforms research with digitization of rare, historical works from Bibliothèque nationale de France. Researchers can now explore early European history and culture as it happened with ProQuest’s release of the first 2 million pages in its massive digitization project with Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. When complete, the project will give researchers cover to cover access to more than 28,000 rare European books printed from 1400 to 1700 – 10 million pages – in crisp, fully searchable images. Approximately 5,800 titles are now available in Collections 4 and 6 of ProQuest’s Early European Books, enabling researchers around the world to benefit from the Library’s centuries of acquisition, curation and preservation. [Full Announcement].

Calyx. Harvest Bible College live on Koha. Harvest Bible College has adopted the Koha library management system to provide a combined catalogue for its four Australian campuses. The system is being hosted by CALYX information essentials, who also provided configuration, data conversion and training services to assist Harvest in the transition to Koha. [Full Announcement].

50 more libraries select OCLC WorldShare Management Services. Fifty additional libraries have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services this year, choosing the Web-based library management services that simplify back-office operations, streamline library workflows, and provide a powerful discovery and delivery service for library users. [Full Announcement].

CALYX. Tabor College NSW live on Koha. Tabor College NSW has converted to the Koha Library Management system, going live in March 2013. [Full Announcement].

Equinox Software's Galen Charlton named one of Library Journal's Movers and Shakers for 2013. Equinox Software is proud to announce that Implementation Manager Galen Charlton has been named one of 2013's “Movers & Shakers” by Library Journal magazine. This prestigious award recognizes 50 outstanding library professionals and their commitment to excellence and innovation in the field of librarianship. [Full Announcement].

Christian Publishers select Ingram's CoreSource. As Christian publishers develop new business models to succeed in today’s digital market, more, including David C Cook, R.H Boyd Publishing, Our Sunday Visitor, Abingdon Press, and Worthy Publishing are selecting Ingram Content Group’s CoreSource® products for the distribution, sales and management of e-books. [Full Announcement].

VTLS, Inc.. Jewish Public Library to become the first public library in the world to adopt RDA/FRBR. In February 2012, Jewish Public Library/ Bibliothèque publique juive, in Montreal, Quebec will become the first public library in the world to adopt the RDA/FRBR standard by implementing the FRBR/RDA capabilities of their Virtua ILS. JPL joined VTLS in 1994, and implemented the Chamo Social OPAC in 2011. The FRBR/RDA implementation in Virtua extends the functions of the traditional bibliographic record, which will make it easier for patrons of JPL to find and obtain information. Virtua is currently the only ILS offering full FRBR and RDA Scenario 1 support. [Full Announcement].