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Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel
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Basel, May 2000
The library of t
he world-renowned Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel has joined the IDS (Swiss-German Informatics) Consortium, a network of close to one
hundred Swiss libraries using ALEPH 500.
Paul Sacher (April 1906-May 1999), whose family is the majority owner of the F.Hoffmann-La
Roche pharmaceutical company, was not only a life-long patron of the arts, but a great conductor in his own right. He founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra in 1926, the Schola Cantorum
Basiliensis in 1933, (now part of the Basel Academy of Music, which Sacher headed until 1969) and the Collegium Musicum Zürich in 1941. He established the Paul Sacher Foundation in 1973
as a research institution and repository of many, mostly contemporary, musical manuscripts, including the musical estate of Igor Stravinsky. He was a close friend of such luminaries as Bela
Bartok, Bohuslav Martinu, Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez. He commissioned and premiered numerous musical works from his circle of friends.
The catalog of the Paul Sacher Foundation can be viewed under aleph.unibas.ch4505/ALEPH
April 18, 2000 Chicago, Illinois. In 1900, the cornerstone of the original Brandon College was
put in place. Today, Brandon University announced the signing of a contract with Ex Libris (USA) for the installation of ALEPH 500 as the cornerstone of their continuing drive to deliver superior
library services to the students of this academic institution located in Brandon, Manitoba. The school serves a population of 2700 students, 250 faculty and staff and 23 librarians and support staff.
The University library contains 450,000 books, serial volumes, scores, videos and sound
recordings and 1,000,000 microforms. The library has 1,000 active serial subscriptions. The new ALEPH 500 system will run on a SUN E250 processor and will support 50 users. The
library will be converting from the current system, BUCat, which was developed at Brandon University.
"We chose ALEPH because it offers the flexibility and functionality to best meet our current needs
and our future requirements, especially those of world-wide access to information resources", said Terry Mitchell, University Librarian.
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Aleph at Mostar School of Medicine: humanitarian project by group of
international sponsors.
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This picturesque city in the Bosnian mountains is slowly but surely rising from its ruins and Ex
Libris is proud to have made a valuable contribution to this resconstruction effort by furnishing its ALEPH 500 software to the Medical Library of the Mostar-West University.
The Mostar medical faculty, founded in 1997 with only 210 students enrolled to-date, is headed
by Vice-Dean Prof. Vladimir Simunovic, before the war chief of the neuro-surgical university clinic in Sarajevo. Dr. Simunovic was quick to realize that a state-of-the-art informatics system was
needed at his medical library to promote research and education and to renew links to the international medical community via the Internet. The ALEPH 500 system now fills this need.
The European Union has contributed financing to the two-year project through its Tempus
educational program. Other sponsors, beside Ex Libris, are Sun Microsystems, the Heidelberg Medical Faculty, the Heidelberg University Computing Center, the Springer Editions and Lehman
Books, both of Heidelberg. These firms and institutions have generously contributed equipment, software, textbooks, journals and human resources. The advisory board includes the Andalusian
School of Public Health in Granada (Spain), the University of Florence (Italy) and the Help-the-Children Fund in Cork (Ireland)
The festive inauguration of the Mostar medical library took place on April 28, 2000. Students, staff, other medical schools
in Bosnia-Herzogovina, as well as doctors, sanitary and social workers in the region, have access to the library resources, such as electronic mail, news-groups, lectures and the like.
In a second project phase, these facilities are to be broadened to audio-visual teaching media, computer-based training. A computer connected consortium of all medical libraries of the
country, based on ALEPH 500, is also planned.
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