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Fenwood joins Esprit Group
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Esprit - the UK’s fast growing information software group has acquired another company -
Fenwood Systems Ltd . Since its startup earlier this year Esprit has shown unusual determination to make a market impression. In a separate
announcment, John Lewis - UK retail chain - choose NOTEbookS to automate library and training activities Details
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NOTEbookS - the Lotus NOTES based library system has been re-vamped since our last look. |
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Harvard withdraws from DRA contract talks
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Harvard have discontinued talks with DRA who won the selection contest for the HOLLIS II system in June ‘98. Delays with
implementations of other Taos systems are felt to have influenced and finally defeated the contract negotiations. Details |
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Sirsi adds Syndetics, Northen Light to iBistro
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Sirsi Corporation has signed a deal with Syndetics to incorporate their added
catalogue data and Northern Light’s technology into the new iBistro OPAC system. Details |
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Innovative win Nobel “prize”
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Innovative Interfaces (Europe) Ltd have signed the prestigious Swedish Academy’s Nobel library -
famous for their annual prizes for outstanding achievemnent. Details |
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BL launch Zetoc service for UK HE
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The British Library have launched a new, free table of contents service for the UK Academic community. Details
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New document compression technology
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LizardTech Inc - an imaging technology company has
announced a suite of new products that compress documents such that download times are up to 150 times faster - making them virtually instantaneous compared with a PDF download. Details. |
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First Public Library for Aleph
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Ex-Libris (USA) has won its first public library in the USA - Colorado is a consortium
of public and schools regions. This deal ousts Taos from one of its sites - something it can ill afford. details |
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Endeavor Information Systems have been named as the 3rd fastest hi-tech company in the
Chicagolands district. Plus Bloss recruited as new training supremo. details |
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Best-Seller’s new sites and staff
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Best-Seller Inc have announced new sales and staff as demand for web systems
“explodes”. details |
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Epixtech launch ADSL site for poets
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have announced an interesting site in Scotland - a web site for the
Scottish Poetry Society - accessed via ADSL - claimed to be the first with this access in the UK. Details |
