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ALEPH 500 at Duisburg University
HAMBURG, Feb. 1, 2001-The University of Duisburg and Ex Libris-Germany have signed a contract for the installation of ALEPH 500 at the
university's libraries. This agreement makes Duisburg the first of six university libraries in North-Rhine-Westphalia to opt for ALEPH 500.
The new library system is expected to go into full online production during the first quarter of 2001.
Duisburg and the other five institutions-the universities of Düsseldorf, Essen, Hagen, Paderborn, and Siegen-have formed a planning group with the
aim of gradually switching over to ALEPH 500 for their libraries.
As members of the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Koeln (HBZ) consortium, these university libraries already have access to the central HBZ cataloging modules of ALEPH 500. The aim of the new agreement is to provide local ALEPH systems that will be connected on-line to the HBZ central system.
Duisburg University, also known as Gerhard-Mercator University, was established 25 years ago in the heartland of the Ruhr. Amid modern
buildings in a parkland setting, some 15,000 students enjoy a broad offering of courses in scientific and engineering fields.
The teaching staff numbers 240, supplemented by 440 research assistants and several hundred external collaborators. Duisburg has made a name for itself in space sciences, automation, traffic logistics, and robotics and is a world leader in microelectronics and aerosol research.
For more information about the Duisburg University libraries, see www.ub.uni-duisburg.de.
New Swedish ALEPH 500 Site
Copenhagen, Jan. 23, 2001-ICL Invia Denmark, the exclusive Scandinavian distributor for
Ex Libris, has reached an agreement with Jönköping University, in Jönköping, Sweden, to replace the university's current Horizon system with the latest version of ALEPH 500.
Jönköping University's library has one of Europe's largest collections related to
entrepreneurship, innovation, and small and medium-size enterprises. The new ALEPH 500 system will provide a state-of-the-art Internet-based catalog of both electronic and
library-housed resources and will offer direct access to published knowledge on a scale far greater than what is available at the present time.
Jönköping University was established in 1994 by an act of the Swedish parliament. Having
decided to allow a limited number of institutions of higher education to become independent of direct state control and implement an experimental form of organization, the government
established the Jönköping University Foundation, whose purpose was to provide higher education and pursue research. These objectives are carried out by three schools that are
limited companies-the School of Education and Communication, the School of Engineering, and Jönköping International Business School-and a fourth unit that is also a limited
company, University Services. The latter unit handles administration, student records, library services, maintenance, computing, and more. At the head of each school is a dean,
who is not only responsible for academic quality and development but is also the managing director of the school. In addition, Jönköping University provides library service to Jönköping
University College of Health Sciences, which will become part of the university later this year. For additional information about the Jönköping University library, please link to www.hj.se/bibl/eng/welcome.html.
Founded in the 13th century, Jönköping lies on the southern banks of Lake Vättern, the
second largest lake in Sweden. Surrounding the city are rolling mountains, hundreds of lakes, expansive forests, and farmland, which together form one of the most attractive landscapes in the country. With its 117,000 inhabitants, Jönköping is Sweden's ninth
largest city and serves as a business hub for many companies, Swedish and international alike. Some 3,500 businesses, mostly small and medium-size, are located in the area.
Loughborough University (UK) chooses Ex Libris
LONDON, March 6, 2001-Loughborough University today signed a contract with Ex Libris
(UK) for the replacement of the University Library's current Talis system with the latest version of ALEPH 500. This agreement represents the latest adoption of ALEPH 500 by a
major academic library in the British Isles, after recent orders from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the National University of Ireland, Galway.
The expanded ALEPH system will offer comprehensive library services to a growing number
of students and researchers at Loughborough. Thanks to the new library information tools from Ex Libris-MetaLib and SFX-which are included in the license contract, patrons will have
access to the most extensive and diverse global catalog and database resources as well as cross-reference linking services.
Mary Morley, University Librarian, commented, "ALEPH is the flexible, comprehensive, and
sophisticated system we need to support our users' current requirements. We look forward to working with Ex Libris to realize our strategic objectives-including the increasingly open
integration of the library management system with the many other electronic information services we provide."
Together with ALEPH 500, the MetaLib and SFX products from Ex Libris will help
Loughborough achieve its objectives. Recently launched in the UK, the MetaLib platform is specifically designed for managing a hybrid library environment that consists of emerging
electronic collections, with their digital resources, and a traditional library, with its print resources. SFX permits context-sensitive linking among all parts of an electronic collection,
including full-text repositories; abstracting, indexing, and citation databases; on-line library catalogs; citations appearing in research articles; e-print systems; and other Web resources.
Marc Daubach, Managing Director of Ex Libris (UK), noted, "ALEPH and MetaLib will
provide students with new tools to ease their academic work. In particular, it will afford Information Science students an insight into the leading-edge developments available in a modern library."
About Loughborough University
Loughborough enjoys an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research
and for unrivaled athletic achievement. The university is generally rated equal to Cambridge in terms of teaching quality. British industry ranks Loughborough among the top five
universities for graduate recruitment. Last year, the school became one of an elite handful of academic institutions to receive the Queen's Anniversary Prize for the third time.
The Pilkington Library, housing the University Library and the Department of Information
Science, was opened in 1980. It contains 500 study spaces, 94 networked PC workstations, 29 dedicated OPAC terminals, and 500,000 books.
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