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New low cost RFID technology |
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Motorola has announced a new technology - BiStatix - that could revolutionise the identification and tracking of library
materials. You will soon be able to have low cost remote sensed labels for automatic check-out and check-in operations. Details
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OCLC and PICA form alliance Details |
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OCLC and Pica have announced their intention to form a new organisation that will lead “to a combination of forces in serving the
European library community.” Details
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Innovative’s Spanish libraries. Details |
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Innovative have three interesting Spanish sites to report - a consortium in Galacia the University of Navarra and the National Library
of Valencia.
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Endeavor announce first quarter sales |
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Endeavor have announced that they have sold 43 new library systems in February-April 1999. Major sites include the National
Library of Scotland and the Major UK Universities of Edinburgh (formerly Geac Advance), and Wales - formerly Libertas users. This brings Endeavor’s customer count to 242.
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Data Magician - a cure for data conversion? |
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Converting bibliographic data from one form to another and handling MARC can be a nightmare even for the skilled programmer. Data
Magician is a tool to allow non-programmers to import and export a variety of formats. Review.
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SydneyPlus unveils e-mail integration Details |
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Emailing of reports is one of those things that sounds easy and has often proved to be more tricky than first expected. ILS have
enabled their popular SydneyPlus product to email reports directly from search results. Details
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BGS and Aberdeen College select OLIB7Details |
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The British Geological Survey (BGS) have selected OLIB7 to replace Libertas at their Keyworth and Edinburgh Offices. Aberdeen
College - the largest in Scotland has also gone with Fretwell-Downing.
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ISI buys Niles software |
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The Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) has acquired Niles software - developers of EndNote. ISI now owns all 3 of the
major Personal Bibliographic Managers - Endnote, ProCite and Reference Manager. see review of these products
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McGill University goes for Aleph & Swedish Update |
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McGill University in Toronto has been signed by Ex Libris in their first major North American site deal. Other major US deals
indicate that Aleph may have broken through in this difficult market. Full details of recent Swedish sales.
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Sirsi win Hampton University and Deere & Co. |
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A major black University and the well known agricultural equipment manufacturer both go for Sirsi.
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