London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine selects Ex Libris Alma library management platform to enhance library services - September 29, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has opted to implement the Ex Libris Alma® library management platform and combine it with the library's Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. The School joins a growing global… Read More
Simon Fraser University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo - September 20, 2016
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris® Group has announced that Simon Fraser University (SFU), located in British Columbia, Canada, has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery platform. These solutions will replace SFU's Millennium system from Innovative, which has been… Read More
Open Library Foundation formed to promote open source projects for libraries - September 12, 2016
The Open Library Foundation has been established to promote open source projects for libraries and to foster and support contribution, distribution, and sustainability of the benefits of these projects. The foundation provides the infrastructure for librarians, developers, designers, service providers, and vendors to collaborate with innovative… Read More
The Penn Libraries selects Ex Libris Alma for unified resource management - September 9, 2016
The Penn Libraries and Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, have announced that the Ex Libris Alma® library management solution has been selected to serve the Penn Libraries' unified resource management needs. The Penn Libraries is the 31st member of the Association of… Read More
University of Mary Washington goes live with Ex Libris Alma and Primo - September 8, 2016
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Mary Washington (UMW) has gone live with the Ex Libris Alma library management service and Primo discovery and delivery solution. In 2015, after using various VTLS library solutions, including Virtua, for more… Read More
University College London selects OCLC Sustainable Collection Services - September 7, 2016
University College London (UCL) has selected OCLC Sustainable Collection Services to analyse over 2 million print monographs across 19 library sites and inform decisions about relegation, retention and potential shared print collection management. UCL will use the web-based SCS GreenGlass decision-support… Read More
Australia’s Charles Darwin University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo - August 31, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that Australia's Charles Darwin University (CDU) has opted for a library services platform consisting of the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery platform. These two solutions will be replacing Intota™ and… Read More
NISO unveils new project to create a flexible API framework for e-content in libraries - August 26, 2016
Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project to modernize library-vendor technical interoperability to improve the access of digital library content and electronic books. Building upon a set of API (Application Programming Interface) Requirements developed by Queens Library, a new… Read More
University of Bath to implement Leganto reading list solution from Ex Libris to enhance library support for teaching and learning - August 18, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Bath is implementing the Leganto reading list solution from Ex Libris to enhance library support for teaching and learning. The university joins a growing global community of customers that are now able to integrate course… Read More
De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde becomes first library in Asia to select OCLC WorldShare Management Services - August 12, 2016
De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, in Manila, Philippines, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services, becoming the first library in Asia to move to the cloud-based library management system. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) is a complete, cloud-based library management system that offers all of the… Read More
