EPIC update

14 May 2012

In line with a theme that seems to be developing - EPIC has a new EBSCO contact, replacing Simon Bian. Simon is still the Regional Sales Manager for University Libraries - so if you represent a University Library, you will still get to see Simon.

The new contact for EPIC is Mariel David. Her contact details are as follows:

email: mdavid@ebscohost.com

ph: +61 3 9276 1777

mobile: +61 3 9421 3150.

Mariel is the Regional Sales Manager - Govt, TAFE, Public & School Libraries.

Anita Joice, the trainer for Oxford University Press (who is based in China) is offering to come to New Zealand in October and do some training on Oxford University Press products with EPIC member libraries. She is aiming to be in New Zealand in the week beginning 15 October.

In order to put an itinerary together to cover as many organisations / locations as possible during this time, Oxford University Press is asking for expressions of interest from libraries for training.

9 May 2012

Following on from the message that I sent out earlier in the week about the new Gale Cengage contact. This week, Gale Cengage have e-mailed out a welcome letter to the key contacts at all the EPIC libraries that re-subscribed to the Gale Cengage products through EPIC in 2012. As it was only sent to 1 person per organisation, I thought that I would also send a copy of it out to the EPIC e-mail group in case you miss it.

Here it is

Gale Cengage Welcome Letter

7 May 2012

NEW GALE CENGAGE CONTACT

On Friday 11 May, Liza Fisher, the New Zealand Regional Consultant for Gale Cengage is heading off on maternity leave. While Liza is off doing her bit to maintain New Zealand's population statistics, Lynette Lewis will covering for Liza as the contact for EPIC Member libraries.

Here is a bit of background about Lynette:

30 April

Many of you may have seen the following on NZ-Libs and/or the Te Puna Listserv, but I thought I would also provide a bit more of a background about the EPIC session.

TE PUNA AND EPIC - A TWO WAY CONVERSATION

The National Library is about to go on the road with a day talking about matters we believe you will be interested in:

17 April 2012

BRITANNICA TRAINING OFFER

Camille Davey from Encyclopaedia Britannica is aiming to be in New Zealand either in the week beginning 7 May or the week beginning 28 May and has offered to do some training sessions for EPIC libraries.

In order to put an itinerary together to cover as many organisations / locations as possible, Camille would like to find out from our members which libraries would be interested in training on Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

2 April 2012

This is a reminder that the new EPIC subscription year began yesterday - 1 April, so this is a slightly belated HAPPY NEW SUBSCRIPTION YEAR!

If your library has made changes or cancellations to your EPIC subscription, please make sure that you have made the necessary changes to your access points to reflect these.

If your library has requested a new subscription through EPIC and have yet to hear either directly from the vendor or from me about your set up, please send me an e-mail so that I can sort it out ASAP.

28 March 2012

Alerting you to the following message received by EBSCO this morning:

27 March 2012

As you hopefully remember from an update I sent out earlier in the month, Gale Cengage have added 2 extra resources to the suite of products that they provide to EPIC member libraries through the EPIC Packages.

If your library subscribes to an EPIC Package (Packages 1-8) that includes the Gale Cengage Resources, from 1 April, you will also be able to access Global Issues In Context & Science In Context.

19 March 2012

RE-SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER

This is a quick reminder that the deadline for returning your EPIC subscription renewals for 2012-13 is this Friday 23March. As pricing for the EPIC Packages is divided proportionately among member libraries we need to hear back from all our member libraries in order to finalise pricing and invoicing for 2012-13.