Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLIC) of St. Paul, Minnesota, is the first academic library consortium to subscribe to ProQuest's cloud-based library services platform, Intota™. The CLIC libraries will be taking full advantage of the transformative nature of the Intota library services platform, implementing in phases beginning with the Summon discovery service this spring. During 2014 they also plan to implement Intota for assessment and for e-resource management, with other components to follow.
Trends in library usage and collections, and in higher education overall, point to a need for more innovative solutions that will re-invent and surpass, not just match, traditional systems. Intota is a library services platform with services designed to address the real needs of today's libraries and help them transform how they manage increasingly digital collections and how their users discover those collections and interface with the library. With Intota, ProQuest is focused not on just replacing the status quo, but on transformation by addressing the needs for the future. It's a platform built for workflows of tomorrow that addresses libraries biggest needs today.
CLIC member libraries subscribing to the services include: Augsburg College, Bethel University, Concordia University, Hamline University, St. Catherine University, University of Northwestern-St. Paul, and University of St. Thomas.
