Chongqing Library selects Ex Libris system
13 April 2007
Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.
James Molloy reflects on the many different strands of his role as a librarian
library management
SirsiDynix CEO resigns
20 February 2007
Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.
ProQuest Platform
29 January 2007
Libraries with a database on the ProQuest platform can now use it for access to full text of the electronic content in its collection, from ProQuest or from another content provider.
Systems must change to help knowledge management
12 January 2007
Knowledge management has become a well-used term but people disagree on what it actually means and what is required to achieve it, as Iain Dunbar of Softlink Europe reveals
AquaBrowser Online
1 December 2006
Talis and Medialab Solutions, creator of the AquaBrowser application, have announced a platform partnership agreement, allowing Medialab to take advantage of the Talis’s open software platform’s APIs.
Journal Use Reports
1 December 2006
A partnership between Thomson Scientific and Australia’s University of Melbourne has resulted in the launch of Journal Use Reports, a new research assessment and collections management tool.
Encore
1 August 2006
Innovative Interfaces is developing a unified search-and-access tool called Encore, planned for general release in mid-2007. This discovery-services platform uses Web 2.0 technologies and builds on the company’s Millennium integrated-library technology
Virtua
1 June 2006
VTLS has announced that Version 48 of its Virtua product supports Oracle XE, Oracle's free starter edition of its database software.
Demand for integration triggers consolidation
12 April 2006
The changing nature of research resources and the demands of its users are having a knock-on effect on the companies that help libraries to manage this information. Siân Harris discovers OCLC PICA's perspective on the library-management sector
RFID industry confronts privacy fears
1 December 2005
RFID is becoming a popular way to monitor materials in libraries and elsewhere but the use of this wireless technology has prompted questions about users' privacy. Dr Christian Kern, the head of systems development at Switzerland's Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems does not believe there is any cause for concern
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