SBCA Community Award Honors Continued Excellence

Cape Coral, FL, January 18, 2012 – Unlimited Priorities LLC, a company specializing in support for organizations within the information industry, has been selected for the 2011 Best of Business Award, Management Consulting Services, by the Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA Community). Unlimited Priorities previously achieved this honor in 2009.

SBCA Community is a San Francisco-based private sector entity providing small business owners with the information and resources needed to comply with laws and regulations required take advantage of government programs and services to help start, expand and run their businesses. It provides access to all forms, contact information, guidance with laws and regulations, and help in applying for government assistance programs.

Utilizing consumer feedback, the SBCA 2011 Award Program identifies the top 5% of companies that have demonstrated those qualities that make small businesses a vital part of the American economy. Award winners are chosen from nominees based on information provided through monthly surveys administered by SBCA Community, a review of consumer rankings and additional consumer reports, and are recognized as valuable assets that exemplify the importance of small businesses to their communities.

Unlimited Priorities president Iris L. Hanney responded to the announcement: “We are extremely gratified to again receive this honor from SBCA Community. It recognizes the continued expansion of our capabilities to provide support services for both evolving and established companies – as well as non-profit organizations – in need of managerial support and direction at all levels. We are proud of the industry reputation we have built as a provider of affordable solutions to firms that are in a position to grow, but who require management assistance in areas they currently are unable to support fully.”

About Unlimited Priorities

Unlimited Priorities is attuned to the management requirements of organizations in the information industry, both commercial and not-for-profit. We provide executive-level support services by utilizing a highly skilled group of professionals with abundant experience. Our practice specialties include Sales and Marketing, Business Development, Financial Services, Operations Management, Production, Information Technology, Social Media, and Content Development and Licensing. Our Archival Initiatives Division offers advice to libraries, historical societies, and industry associations in selecting, distributing, and monetizing their valuable archival content. Our goal is to enhance our clients’ abilities to succeed, offering solutions that are realistic, practical, achievable and affordable.

Media Contact:

Iris L. Hanney, President
Unlimited Priorities LLC
239-549-2384
iris.hanney@unlimitedpriorities.com
www.unlimitedpriorities.com

Cape Coral, FL (August 4, 2011) – Unlimited Priorities® has developed a new, more robust web site to support a key primary source collection at the Earlham School of Religion (ESR). The project involved updates for a UNIX/LINUX server, improvements to the search engine for proximity ranges, a reload of data to support updated versions of eXist and Lucene, and software updates for Tomcat, Java, and Saxon XSLT processing.

ESR’s Digital Quaker Collection contains full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. Built about 8 years ago, the site gives distance learners access to the same type of quality information as students have on campus at the Lilly Library. The proprietary software developed for ESR provides multiple search functions and an interface for viewing pages.

In 2011, Jay Marshall, Dean of ESR, who had the original vision for the digital library, turned once again to the experts at Unlimited Priorities to do some much-needed maintenance. In addition to updating the search engine, they also wanted to upgrade the server environment.

Tim Seid, ESR’s Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies, is the school’s liaison for distance learning. Besides his education in theology, he also has a technology avocation. Assoc. Dean Seid said: “Since Joe Paulsen and Iris Hanney were instrumental in building the initial site, including the content conversion, we naturally wanted them to handle this upgrade to the primary source repository. We knew we could count on Unlimited Priorities to execute the project within our budgetary framework and with a high level of expertise.”

Iris Hanney, founder and President of Unlimited Priorities replied: “We designed the website, the environment in which it would reside, developed the XML, and coordinated the imaging and conversion of this rare full-text material. The Archival Initiatives Division of Unlimited Priorities is geared towards the appropriate archiving and management of rare collections. As we remain on the cutting edge of technology we applaud the team at Earlham for recognizing the need for an overhaul so the site would continue to operate well into the future. It is a pleasure having long-standing customers to grow with.”

Earlham School of Religion is a Christian graduate school located in Richmond, Indiana.

About Unlimited Priorities

Unlimited Priorities serves clients throughout the information industry. Our Archival Initiatives Division provides advice to libraries, historical societies, and associations in selecting, distributing, and monetizing their valuable archival content. Our goal is to enhance our clients’ abilities to succeed, offering realistic and affordable solutions.

Contact

Iris L. Hanney, President
239-549-2384
iris.hanney@unlimitedpriorities.com
www.unlimitedpriorities.com

Locally Purchased Items Support New Orleans Economy

Cape Coral, FL (June 16, 2011) – Unlimited Priorities® has announced that it will donate the furniture from its exhibit booth at the 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference to the Library Resource Center of Xavier University of Louisiana.

Xavier University was founded as a high school in 1915 by St. Katharine Drexel of Philadelphia. The four-year college program was added in 1925. Today, Xavier retains its distinction as the only historically Black Catholic University in the United States.

The booth furnishings to be donated were purchased locally at Furniture Mart and include a black pleather sofa, two black pleather armchairs, a coffee table and two end tables. The conference exhibit double-booth is a shared enterprise with Accessible Archives, Inc.©, an Unlimited Priorities client.

Iris L. Hanney, president of Unlimited Priorities, explained the reasons behind the donation decision: “We have participated in many library conferences over the years, and finally have reached a point where in good conscience we cannot simply rent furniture for thousands of dollars, only to return it when the exhibits close. Instead, we want to be good stewards and donate the furniture to a deserving institution. Therefore, we are extremely pleased to be able to place this furniture in the Library Resource Center at Xavier University where we are certain it will be well used.”

Robert Skinner, University Librarian, responded: “In these hard economic times, it’s unusual to see a vendor make an investment in a client like Unlimited Priorities has done with this furniture. We’re pleased and proud to have been chosen for this donation, and think it a very appropriate gift for a library. After all, no matter how digital a library becomes, it still has to have comfortable furniture for students to sit in.”

Conference attendees may visit Unlimited Priorities at booth #2225 — listed under Accessible Archives — in the exhibits area at the ALA 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans. Unlimited Priorities is the exclusive sales and marketing agent for Accessible Archives.

About Unlimited Priorities

Unlimited Priorities is attuned to the management requirements of small to mid-size companies in the information industry. We provide executive-level support services by utilizing a group of highly-skilled professionals with abundant experience. Our practice specialties include Sales and Marketing, Business Development, Financial Services, Operations Management, Production, Information Technology, and Content Development and Licensing. Our new Archival Initiatives Division provides advice to libraries, historical societies and industry associations on selecting, distributing and monetizing their valuable archival content. We create partnerships between the academic and commercial marketplaces. Our goal is to enhance our clients’ abilities to succeed by offering solutions that are realistic, practical, achievable and affordable.

Contact:
Iris L. Hanney, President
239-549-2384
iris.hanney@unlimitedpriorities.com
www.unlimitedpriorities.com

Cape Coral, FL (June 14, 2011) – Accessible Archives, Inc.©, an electronic publisher of primary source historical databases, has signed an agreement with ShipIndex.org to create links between their databases. The links will take users directly from a reference in ShipIndex.org to a newspaper article from Accessible Archives. Thousands of links are now available for ShipIndex.org subscription customers. Accessible Archives customers will see the full text with one click.

Painstaking research was involved, but project participants enlisted the help of licensing and technology experts at Unlimited Priorities®, the exclusive sales and marketing agent for Accessible Archives.

Iris Hanney, Unlimited Priorities President said: “We love working with entrepreneurial companies to make their content more discoverable. In this case, we focused on maritime material from the Civil War era because of its 150th anniversary, but that is just the first step.”

Genealogists and academics will want to mine ShipIndex.org to learn more about a specific vessel on which an individual traveled, served, or worked.

Sail by the waves of attendees at the American Library Association Conference in New Orleans next week and visit Booths 2225 (Accessible Archives/Unlimited Priorities) and 3818 (Ship Index).

About Accessible Archives, Inc.

Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives provides vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy, or images. Primary source material reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled to allow access to leading books, newspapers, and periodicals then current, as identified by dedicated instructors and students of Americana. Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods.

About Ship Index

ShipIndex.org tells people — researchers, genealogists, artists, historians, model shipbuilders, and many others — which books, magazines, websites, databases, CD-ROMs, and more, mention the ships they’re researching. Over 140,000 citations are freely available, and the premium database contains nearly 2 million citations, and is always growing. ShipIndex.org was created by Peter McCracken and Mike McCracken, two co-founders of Serials Solutions.

About Unlimited Priorities

Unlimited Priorities serves small to mid-size companies in the information industry. A highly skilled group of professionals provide executive-level support services in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Finance, Operations, Production, Technology, Content Development, and Licensing. Our new Archival Initiatives Division provides advice to libraries, historical societies, and industry associations in selecting, distributing, and monetizing their valuable archival content. Our goal is to enhance our clients’ abilities to succeed, offering realistic and affordable solutions.

Contact

Iris L. Hanney, President
239-549-2384
iris.hanney@unlimitedpriorities.com
www.unlimitedpriorities.com

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Student to Attend 2011 ALA Annual Conference

Cape Coral, FL (May 26, 2011) – The board of directors of the Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant has announced this year’s award recipient. The winning essay was submitted by Catherine Larson, a student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ms. Larson will receive a $1,500.00 grant to help defray the cost of attending ALA’s 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana in June.

2011 Grant Winner Announced

In awarding the grant Iris Hanney, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said, “I am thrilled that Bob Asleson’s memory continues to be honored through this award, and am extremely pleased to present it to Catherine Larson. She submitted an outstanding essay discussing the impact of the electronic consumer market on library services and spaces. We wish her the best of luck in her future career!”

The board of directors continues to seek both corporate and individual donations in support of the Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant. It believes that exposure to the programs, seminars, contacts and other conference benefits will foster an on-going love of and dedication to the cause of librarianship in students who otherwise would be unable to attend, reflecting the values exhibited by Bob Asleson throughout his life and long professional career.

Complete details of the grant, including information on donation participation, are available on the website at www.aslesongrant.org. Several levels of support are available, and all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Additional information may be obtained by contacting:

Iris L. Hanney, Chairman of the Board
Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant
1930 SW 48th Lane
Cape Coral, FL 33914
239-549-2384
  
info@aslesongrant.org

Cape Coral, FL (April 2011) – Accessible Archives, Inc., an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases, has signed an agreement with OCLC Online Computer Library Center to make its content available through the WorldCat Local and TouchPoint services, which provide an integrated discovery and delivery service for libraries’ physical and electronic collections.

To bring this new feature to its customers, Accessible Archives relied on the licensing and technology experts at Unlimited Priorities®, the publisher’s exclusive sales and marketing agent.

Iris Hanney, Unlimited Priorities‘ President, said: “It is a pleasure to bring leaders of the industry together for the improvement of services to our valuable information community.”

Janet Weber, Publisher Relations Manager at OCLC responded: “As we continue to expand our relationships with publishers, it is important to include the primary source materials that have been collected and digitized by Accessible Archives.”

About Accessible Archives Inc.

Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a large team of conversion specialists to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, or hard copy form or as images only. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current. Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels. Accessible Archives has retained Unlimited Priorities Corporation as its exclusive sales and marketing agent.

About Unlimited Priorities

Unlimited Priorities is attuned to the management requirements of small to mid-size companies in the information industry. We provide executive-level support services by utilizing a highly skilled group of professionals with abundant experience. Our practice specialties include Sales and Marketing, Business Development, Financial Services, Operations Management, Production, Information Technology, and Content Development and Licensing. Our new Archival Initiatives Division provides advice to libraries, historical societies, and industry associations in selecting, distributing, and monetizing their valuable archival content. Our goal is to enhance our clients’ abilities to succeed, offering solutions that are realistic, practical, achievable and affordable.

Contacts:

Tom Nagy, COO
Accessible Archives, Inc.
866-296-1488 Fax: 610-725-1745
tnagy@accessible.com
www.accesible.com

Iris L. Hanney, President
Unlimited Priorities
239-549-2384   
iris.hanney@unlimitedpriorities.com
www.unlimitedpriorities.com

Cape Coral, FL (April 14, 2011) – The Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant has announced the receipt of its first corporate gift. EBSCO Publishing, a leading content provider for libraries, has provided a very generous donation to support this newly-established grant.

Candidates for an ALA-accredited Master of Library Science degree are eligible to apply for the grant which will subsidize attendance at either the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting or the Annual Conference. Successful recipients will be selected based on economic need and the quality of an essay written according to criteria set by the grant’s board of directors. Each grant will be in the amount of $1,500.00.

The Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant honors the memory of the late Bob Asleson, one of the information industry’s most creative and prolific executives. An advisor and guide to countless members of the profession, Bob’s 50-year career spanned both traditional and innovative technologies, from reference materials to CD-ROMs to online databases. He held presidential positions at several leading industry companies and served on countless industry organization boards. This grant was established by Bob’s friends and colleagues within the information industry.

Tim Collins, president, EBSCO Publishing, said, “As a company with a long history of serving libraries, EBSCO Publishing understands the dedication and innovation-focused mindset of Bob Asleson. Supporting the Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant is a small way to help continue Bob’s legacy of service to libraries and to support the next generation of library leaders.”

Iris L. Hanney, president of the grant’s board of directors and founder of Unlimited Priorities, responded: “The board of directors deeply appreciates this generous donation from EBSCO Publishing. It is fitting that the initial corporate donation should come from a company that has long been involved in all aspects of service to the library community, as Bob was. We thank EBSCO Publishing, and look forward to benefiting from the generosity of many additional companies throughout the industry.”

Grant details, including donation information, are available at www.aslesongrant.org.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the leading content provider for libraries, offering eBooks and more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases via the EBSCOhost® platform and EBSCO Discovery Service™—providing unparalleled access to world-renowned content in all subject areas, for researchers at every level.

Contact

Iris L. Hanney, Chairman of the Board
Robert F. Asleson Memorial ALA Conference Grant
1930 SW 48th Lane
Cape Coral, FL 33914
239-549-2384
  
info@aslesongrant.org