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ALA Mid Winter review

Don Chvatal casts his eye over the other Washington show this January. Trends covered include the morphing of publishers and technology vendors. The Review covers the all the commercial and technical news from around and about the conference and exhibition.

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[Biblio Tech Review]
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[Technical Briefings]
[Supplier Directory]
[Exhibitions]
[Archive Reviews]
[About BTR]

This month’s stories

[TLC products]
[DS - Cheshire]
[BL Catalogue]
[Bookwhere 3.3]
[DRA losses]
[ALA MW 2001]
[Endeavor Cambridge]
[Ex-Libris]
[E-Ink]
[Sirsi - Cahners]
[Innovative ALA]

National Archive          Library of Congress

E-book update

The initial steam has gone from the E-Book bandwagon but new technologies keep coming. E-ink is the latest of these.    Details

Monthly Issues 2001

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[May 2001]
[April 2001]
[March 2001]
[February 2001]
[January 2001]

Ex-Libris enters Australia

Ex-Libris (USA) wins their first deal in Australia and  further sites at Universities of California, Santa Barbara, Maryland and Lisbon. Details

RoweCom move to Oxford

Rowecom are moving their UK offices from Folkestone to Oxford - “ nearer to the center of academic publishing” - details.

Endeavor win Cambridge University

Endeavor Information Systems win Cambridge University, England.  Voyager will provide a union catalogue for the 97 libraries - many of whom use other systems in their local administration.   Details

DRA announce losses

Data Research Associates, Inc. has announced losses of $205,000 for its first quarter of fiscal 2001.  2000 was not a happy year for DRA but President Mike Mellinger is optimistic about long term prospects. Details

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Cheshire Choose Galaxy

Cheshire Libraries and Archives Service (UK) has chosen the DS Galaxy system for its 39 branch public library service. DS also buys Crossnet - Z39.50 specialists.   Details

Innovative releases new products

Innovative Interfaces Inc have released a whole raft of new products for the ALA midwinter show including WAP based OPAC (WOPAC ?) and payment of fines etc. over the web.   Details

BritishLibrary catalogue goes live

The complete British Library catalogue went on-line on 29th January. Over 10 million books in a nice fast search package with document delivery options.  Details

BookWhere 3.3.0 released

Sea Change Corporation has released version 3.3.0 of their successful Z39.50 client. Better support for languages and the Bath profile enhancements make this a significant upgrade. Details

Sirsi expand iBistro with Cahners

The new Sirsi product iBistro has been enhanced via Cahners - part of Reed Elsevier - adding content to the already rich mix.  Details.

TLC release new Internet security feature

More effort than ever is going into protection of public terminals from “Internet abuse”. The Library Corporation has released the SecureSolution integrated security to their library mangement system. Details

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