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Endeavor and Elsevier merger
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A merger between has been announced between systems vendor  Endeavor and publishing group Elsevier. The purpose of this combination is quoted as “to broaden delivery of electronic content throughout
the academic and research library marketplace.” All Endeavor staff to remain in place. "This transaction will not detract from our corporate focus states CEO Jane Burke”.details |
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Ex Libris has announced that the company has acquired the sole rights to the SFX Reference Linking Software Solution from the
University of Gent (Belgium). Ex Libris is establishing an independent Information Services Division of Ex Libris (USA) Inc. that will be
responsible for the development, sales and support of the SFX service. What is SFX? - details. Other sales: Aleph in Germany and London and a unique gift to Cambodia. |
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People: Key industry staff decide to move |
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Several key industry figures have moved jobs this month - in the UK Epixtech bosses Chris Ezekiel and Jo Richardson resign. Matt
Goldner - head of Geac library development - joins FDI along with Don Chvatal. Jenny Walker joins Ex Libris from SilverPlatter to set
up Boston Office. Jim Burton and other key Talis managers leave to set up new company. |
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Endeavor Universal Catalog and Australian sale.
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5 Georgian libraries are installing Universal Catalogue to aid regional
co-operation. A major Australian defence education institute chooses Voyager. details |
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Sirsi - another sale in China + major UK university
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Sirsi continue in their efforts in China with a 3rd sale. Other sales in
US include the US Airforce and Anchorage schools and in the UK another major University. details |
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EOSi Q series new release
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EOSi has released an new version of their Q Series - Version 2.003. new features include: location and date range specification controls
for the Bibliographic MARC Export option and further integration of the Serials and Circulation modules. Serials reporting has been enhanced along with a system wide set-up option to allow the user to
define their call number hierarchy.
Also included in this Q Series maintenance release is an upgrade to Excalibur Technology's RetrievalWare 6.6, the Q Series' search
engine, and additional program updates requested by Q Series users.
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Surpass adds Web publish feature
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Users of the Surpass library automation suite of applications can now
publish reports to the web or save reports in other standard formats. With the release of Surpass Central version 1.07, the core
component of Surpass, users will find that all report screens now have an "export" button to choose to save the report in HTML for publishing
to the web. To make long reports more manageable, Surpass Central will even create a series of web pages with automatic links for navigation between pages. This also makes pages load more
quickly. more from Surpass |
