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June 2001

VTLS emphasises partnerships

VTLS Inc has issued a statement to emphasise the importance that they place on their technical partnerships.  A clear trend for vendors to purchase technology and integrate it rather than develop in-house from scratch has been helped by common Web standards and a more realistic approach to how much is sensible to develop in-house.

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AMICO – VTLS Inc.  is partnering with the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) to develop software tools and product offerings that will make the image database available to libraries and educational institutions.

Digital Library Project - Library of Virginia – VTLS Inc. recently completed a project (funded by the Mellon Foundation) called the Virginia Historical Index (VHI). VTLS provided extensive consulting, design and technical support for all aspects of the project, and was instrumental in designing and implementing the complex interactive interface for all of the project components

Gemplus – VTLS Inc. has partnered with Gemplus to provide a complete solution for library material management using RFID technology. VTLS has built a solution that includes self-checkout stations, auto check-in book return bins, security gates and an inventory control system all based on RFID technology from Gemplus.  The system is designed for use with any integrated library system that follows standard circulation protocols.

NDLTD (at Virginia Tech) – VTLS Inc.  has partnered with NDLTD (Networked Digital Library for Theses and Dissertations) at Virginia Tech to provide a Unicode based multilingual Union Catalog of Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs). The database will be housed at the Blacksburg offices of VTLS Inc.

OCLC – VTLS is working co-operatively with OCLC on developments dealing with the design and implementation of the Extended WorldCat. Issues being addressed are software scaling to handle hundreds of millions of bibliographic records and performance evaluations of relational database models.

RLG – for ILL manager.  VTLS Inc. is integrating a standards based ILL system from RLG into its Virtua offerings.

Syndetic Solutions – VTLS is partnering with Syndetic Solutions to provide a painless enhancement to the online catalogs.  Images of Book covers, Table of Contents, Author Information, Book reviews and annotations can all be available to library users through the online catalog with no additional work for the library staff.

This Month’s Stories

[2001]
[ALA 2001]
[ALA Review]
[epixtech news]
[Innovative in Canada]
[Talis Campus Pipeline]
[Ex-Libris Sales]
[Ex-Libris new features]
[DRA EDI]
[Endeavor OpenURL]
[Sirsi OCLN & UK]
[TLC / CARL]
[Autographics Wings]
[VTLS partnerships]
[Dawsons sell EOSi]
[BDZ service]
[Luna & Ex-libris]
[CCC Click Thru]

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