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Innovative’s Spring Bonanza

Innovative start the new Millennium with a flourish - picking up the National Library of South Africa, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne plus major consortia in USA and then some ...  Details

ENCompass released

Endeavor have released their new digital resource management system - Encompass following trials.  Competition is hotting up in this vital sector - watch out for announcments from other suppliers soon.   Details

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Esprit and Soutron merge

Esprit have taken on another partner to become the UK’s fastest growing Information industry technology group. Soutron are InMagic distributers in the UK and will form Esprit and Soutron Partnership (ESP) with Esprit giving the group a client list of over 800.   Details

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 and Jim Burton, Esprit.

Sirsi create Academic LINK

Sirsi have created a new division to focus on the Academic market sector - and a nother UK sale made - Details

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RFID explained

IMore and more libraries are moving from barcodes to RFID (Radio Frequency Identication) Jo Vowles from Gemplus provides an introduction to this technology. - Details

VTLS - cool systems and hot technology

VTLS have implemented a system in the newest and coldest Canadian territory of Nunavut where Unicode provides a first for the Inuktitut character set.  An RFID based system provides another new experience for Virtua in N. Carolina.  Details

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Swets Blackwell and Ex-Libris co-operate

Showing how publishers and content providers have to work together to compete in an increasingly integrated library world, these two key players have EDI linking for serials invoicing and SFX dynamic linking systems interoperating.  Details

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Fischer joins BiblioMondo

Thomas-Bernd Fischer - a major figure on the European automation scene has joined BiblioMondo - the new company fromed from Best-Seller and ALSi last year.  Fischer was previously with Dynix and Ex-Libris.  Details

Talis win back Bournemouth

Folowing last month’s news that Bournemouth University (UK) had decided not to proceed with the Aurora system, comes the news that their former supplier Talis has agreed a 3 year deal to provide services including a new library system. Details

TLC/CARL move into New Zealand

Wellington City Libraries have chosen CARL from TLC/CARL.  This gives the fast growing TLC a foothold in the Antipodes. Other recent success in the mid range Public library system market include Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana and California. Details

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