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Information Technology for Libraries

September 2000

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Surpass v.2.0]
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Cairs]
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Open Text]
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Inmagic]
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SISIS wins Rotterdam deal

Rotterdam Public Library

Sisis, the German system developer, has won the Rotterdam Public Library from incumbent supplier ALSi.  This deal cements the death of the Pallas/Eurolib consortium announced in 1998 which saw ALSi, PICA and SISIS in partnership... details

epixtech win £2M FM deal

epixtech UK have given some of the details of the recently announced £2M FM deal with Brent.  details

LC accepts Voyager + ILL beta released

The Library of Congress has accepted the Voyager system - installed in 1998 after a huge installation project involving over 500 professionals. Also announced are the details of the first ILL offerning for Voyager. Details

Open Text and Oracle partnership

Open Text has announced a strategic partnership with Oracle to allow linking of LiveLink groupware thorough Oracle Portal.  This will allow also TechLib library system users to be integrated completely into an Oracle WebDB environment.  Details.

Innovative move east

Innovative Interfaces (Europe) Ltd   have made two interesting sales in the east - Turkey and UEA  details.

Integral Concepts release new cataloguing products

Integral Concepts a new Canadian company is developing some new cataloguing tools for o the library market.  MARCwriter is aimed at cataloguing departments in large academic libraries. ZSearcher is the Z39.50 search and retrieve module - available as a download Review

Rowecom release v.1.2 of kLibrary

Rowecom have released version 1.2 of their kLibrary Web based Serials Managment tool for their customers. Another example of content providers providing management tools for their products. details

Sirsi deal with netLibrary

Sirsi Corporation have announced a link with netLibrary - this follows a similar deal with Innovative Interfaces Inc last March. Meanwhile Sirsi UK have announced several new sales in UK and Ireland. Details.

3M E-Library installed in Supermarket

An American Supermarket has installed a 3M E-Branch library which incorporates an OPAC and access to other digital resources. Plus news of 3M RFID installations in USA and Europe. Details.

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Exhibition service

BTR has launched a new exhibition service.
Selected exhibitions now have lists of exhibiting companies. See: On-line 2000

EndNote and Reference Manager

new releases reviewed.

Libero sale

Fenwood’s Libero has won a deal at Southampton (UK) University.  details

InMagic

Bibliotech Pro version 2.1 released from Inmagic. + sale to Gilead  details

Cairs Graphical Catalogue

Cairs Ltd. have released a graphical cataloguing feature for their arcive managment system that allows easy hierarchical record management. Details

Surpass  v.2

Surpass Software   have released a major upgrade to their integrated system with some interesting new features:  details

Sagebrush - big deal

Sagebrush have done their biggest ever deal with New York City Schools. details

Voyager Unicoded

Endeavor has partnered with InterPro to give Voyager Unicode capability over the web. details