The British Library, UK, and Relais International Inc, Canada, have agreed to renew a 3 year contract for the maintenance and support of the existing Relais Enterprise Document Delivery and Request Management System based at Boston Spa.
Relais International has been selling systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services since 1996. The company assists libraries in implementing intelligent and automated methods to support the delivery of documents. Relais products range from scanning stations through to fully integrated request management, scanning and delivery software suitable for a single library through to a consortium.
The British Library provides information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers access to a vast and comprehensive research collection. The Library's collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing every age of written civilisation. It includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, newspapers and sound recordings in numerous written and spoken languages.
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