New community-based open source environment to provoke conversation about library innovation and technology - June 27, 2016
Libraries and service providers have come together to reshape the future of libraries and develop new technologies. The new initiative, FOLIO, provides a platform for libraries, service providers, and other organisations to team up to redefine library automation via open source projects. The goal is to… Read More
Innovative Interfaces collaborates with YBP Library Services for GOBI integration - June 14, 2016
Innovative Interfaces, a provider of library automation software that empowers libraries globally, has collaborated with YBP Library Services to enhance Sierra acquisitions with an integration between Innovative's RESTful API and YBP's acquisition and collection development interface GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information). … Read More
Stellenbosch University selects Ex Libris Alma for optimising library services - June 9, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that South Africa's Stellenbosch University (SU) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® resource management service to complement the library's Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. This investment will help the university control costs and maintain its ranking as… Read More
Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee selects Alma and Primo to build collections and deliver innovative services - June 7, 2016
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is pleased to announce that the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) has selected the Ex Libris Alma resource management service and Primo discovery and delivery solution. The Hong Kong consortium of eight academic libraries will use Alma and Primo solutions… Read More
NHS Education for Scotland selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo as platform for the Knowledge Network - June 3, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that NHS Education for Scotland has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution as the infrastructure to combine NHS Scotland's print and electronic resources through the organisation's popular and well used Knowledge… Read More
EBSCO Information Services continues to support open source technology for libraries - May 27, 2016
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) continues to provide support in advocating open source and open access. EBSCO has agreed to provide additional financial support to Koha, the world's first full-featured, free open source Integrated Library System (ILS) that is used worldwide by more than 15,000 libraries of… Read More
Consortium of Academic and Special Libraries of Saskatchewan selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo solutions - May 26, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Consortium of Academic and Special Libraries of Saskatchewan (CASLS) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® resource management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution to create a unified resource management and discovery environment that offers comprehensive and… Read More
University of Deusto Library becomes the first in Spain to select Ex Libris Alma - May 19, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Deusto will be replacing its AMICUS library management system with Ex Libris Alma® and will migrate from an on-premises discovery system to a SaaS implementation of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Students,… Read More
White Rose Libraries in the UK select OCLC Sustainable Collection Services for collaborative print management - May 19, 2016
The White Rose Libraries, a long-standing collaboration among the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, have selected OCLC Sustainable Collection Services to assist in developing a regional shared-print collection. The White Rose Libraries (WRL) will work with Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) to make informed group-level… Read More
Cardiff Metropolitan University is 400th institution to go live with Ex Libris Alma - April 29, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the 400th customer of the Ex Libris Alma® cloud-based resource management solution, Cardiff Metropolitan University, has gone live. Building on the solution's unparalleled success, Ex Libris is now focusing on developing new services to address the next level… Read More
