Biblio Tech
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Information Technology for Libraries

December 2000

ISSN 1463-7146


 

 

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Best-Seller buys ALSi to form BiblioMondo

Todd Joron CEO BiblioMondo
Todd Joron, CEO BiblioMondo

Best-Seller Inc, the Canadian systems vendor has purchased UK’s ALSi to form BiblioMondo - a new company with appropriate global ambitions.  ALSi has been looking for a buyer for some time. This deal ends the association with Dutch company Pica.   Details

Geac stumbles

The giant Canadian software company that Geac has grown into since its beginnings in finance and library system, has been suffering as the steam runs out of ERP sales and technology stocks tumble.  The company is looking for a buyer for all or part.  Meanwhile Geac’s Vubis system wins order in the Netherlands and announces a new bibliographic workstation. Details

Taos goes live in France

Data Research Associates, Inc. have implemented their first Taos site in France - going live in November 2000. Meanwhile DRA and netLibrary agree on Taos integration of the web based E-book system.  Details

Endeavor plans to double development

As Voyager finds its 800th customer, Endeavor Information Systems plans to double their development staff.   Details

Innovative strikes gold

The Black Gold Co-operative in Southern California and another ARL library choose Millennium. Innovative Interfaces Inc announce agreement with SUN.  Details

Sirsi win US and Irish deals

Sirsi Corporation have continued their success in US and in health libraries via the UK office with a win of the Dublin centred Eastern Regional Health Authority. Details

Winnebago spectrum V. 5 released

The latest release of this popular software has some interesting features - and is one of the very few systems still available on Mackintosh.      Details

Amicus live at National Library of Hungary

Amicus and LibriVision have gone live at the National Library of Hungary (NSZL) - this is the first European national library to go with the Dobis replacement system.  Details

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E-Content review
New E-Content journal launched by Biblio Tech - covers digital content, technologies and products. January issue

Epixtech

Two Scottish public libraries have gone live with Dynix from epixtech UK’s offices - Inverclyde and Scottish Borders. Details

TLC win big Philippines deal

The National library and 65 public libraries are to utilise The Library Corporation ’s Library.Solution.   Details

TLC - cataloguing tools new releases

New features in Library.Solution and ITS.forWindows Details

Inmagic release XML based products

Inmagic Inc have become the first library software vendor to release XML based products - Inmagic.NET - an extension of DB/TextWorks.  First fruits of this approach are very close integration with book suppliers via XML structured data exchange.  Details