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1999 Issues |
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  This month’s stories
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Aleph - new contracts and Unicode advance |
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Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University of Guadalajara and Ex-Libris Joins the Unicode Consortium, Germany: Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus, VolksWagen
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Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
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Press release: 30th September 1999
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Ex Libris(UK) Ltd announced today that the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has signed a contract for the installation of the latest
version of ALEPH500.
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious medical institutions. Founded in 1784, the RCSI regulates
the practice of surgery in Ireland, and also provides medical, surgical, nursing and physiotherapy education at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The RCSI Medical School is one of the largest in Ireland,
with over 1,000 students. In addition, the Library serves over 3,000 staff and students in the College's associated hospitals, and a wide range of health-care professionals throughout Ireland. It is a truly
international organisation, with more than 60 countries represented among its students and alumni. The RCSI is actively engaged in research, with over 100 research students and many projects covering a wide range of
biomedical disciplines.
The RCSI Library is one of Ireland's best equipped and most modern health information resources, but it also contains a rich heritage of rare books
and archives, with over 20,000 books in the history of medicine collections. The Aleph library system will form an important part of the College's IT strategy for the new millennium. The RCSI is the
second Aleph site in Ireland.
"We selected Aleph," says RCSI Librarian Beatrice Doran "because we were impressed by its functionality and its ultra-modern design.
Aleph represents the best in cutting-edge technology, and we wanted to ensure that the College would remain at the forefront of medical education and training in Ireland - and throughout the world."
Further information on the RCSI can be obtained from the College's World Wide Web site at www.rcsi.ie
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Another major Mexican university opts for ALEPH |
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Press release Guadalajara (State of Jalisco, Mexico), 14th September, 1999
Sistemas Logicos S.A., exclusive Mexican distributor for Aleph, has concluded a contract
with the University of Guadalajara (U.G.), to license and install the latest version of ALEPH500 at its eleven libraries. Six of these are located in the city of Guadalajara, the
other five at regional campuses in the State of Jalisco.
With close to 150,000 students, the U.G. is the second most important university in Mexico, after UNAM, also a user of ALEPH500.
The U.G. library network has been automated with a PC-based system since 1991. All
libraries have area networks, automated catalogs with large electronic collections and electronic delivery services. The main object of the upgrade to a modern, consortial system,
is to optimize access for all users to the resources of the participating libraries, including a union catalog and to offer better application interfaces to its patrons, such as intra- and
Internet access through the ALEPH Web Server, comprehensive serials management or in-house statistical reporting, to name just a few.
«With these criteria in mind, says Senora Pastora Rodriguez Avinoa, Library Coordinator, a
working group consisting of representatives from the library, systems coordination and administration departments, selected the ALEPH500 system after a very detailed technical
analysis. We also based our decision on the experience of other very important Mexican institutions who have been satisfied ALEPH users for over three years, namely UNAM, El Colegio de Mexico and ITESO.»
For more information: www.logicat.com.mx
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Ex Libris joins the Unicode Consortium |
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Press release: September 27, 1999 - Chicago, Illinois.
Ex Libris (USA) Inc. announced today that the company has joined the Unicode
Consortium. The Consortium brings together leading industry corporations such as Microsoft, ORACLE, and SUN and includes researchers at the leading edge of emerging international character encoding standards.
"Joining the Unicode Consortium further underscores our commitment to providing
integrated library systems that can support global information resources" said Carl Grant, President. "The ALEPH 500 product currently uses UNICODE (UTF8) internally which is
one reason why it is the superior multi-lingual product in the market. ALEPH 500 also offers support of over 20 languages and scripts including bi-directional display capabilities and
we're adding CJK. This membership ensures that our customers will have state-of-the-art technology to support all of their multi-lingual requirements."
The system marketed by Ex Libris, called ALEPH, is now in over 500 installations with
more than 17,000 concurrent users in 40 countries. Ex Libris is a multi-national company with offices located around the world.
For more information see:
www.exlibris.co.il
www.exlibris-usa.com
www.unicode.org
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Another Parliamentary library - Berlin |
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Berlin, September 9, 1999
The Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus (Chamber of Deputies) has awarded our German company,
Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH with offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne, a contract to migrate their BIS-LOK automation system (also supplied by Ex Libris) to the latest version
of ALEPH 500. Ex Libris will perform the complete implementation, comprising installation, data conversion, training and ongoing support.
The Berlin Parliament is a modern institution. Its library, first installed in 1951, has about
100,000 volumes, some 600 periodicals, including a large selection of daily newspapers, and a large collection of microfilms and CD-ROMs. The available literature concentrates on
political subjects, parliamentary reports from the Federal Republic and the European Union, as well as federal and state legislative records, proceedings and laws. These can all be
searched via OPAC and consulted on site by interested citizens. Loans are restricted to deputies and staff. The parliamentary Press- and Documentation sections are closely linked to the library
The Berlin Parliament (www.parlament-berlin.de) is the equivalent of a state legislature, a
link among other state parliaments in the chain of German democratic institutions. It neighbors the recently rebuilt and festively inaugurated Federal Parliament, the Bundestag,
in the history-laden Reichstag. It marks its turf amid the many construction sites which currently dot the Berlin urban scene and are turning this war-torn metropolis into one of the finest European capital cities.
Other parliamentary libraries using ALEPH are those of Brazil, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Israel.
For more info: www.parlament-berlin.de
www.exl.de (in German)
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ALEPH and the new “Beetle” |
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Press release: Wolfsburg (Germany), August 1999
The Volkswagen (VW) people, the makers of Golf, Audi and lately Rolls-Royce
automobiles, are constantly modernizing their vehicles, such as the reborn Beetle, along with their research facilities. Accordingly, VW have contracted with Ex Libris Germany to
replace their BIS library system (also from Ex Libris Germany), running on a mainframe computer, with the latest version of ALEPH500. The new VW system will be named BIBLIO
and will be housed on a HP UNIX server. Initially, this new system will support 20 concurrent full staff plus 30 concurrent Web-OPAC users. To date, about 200,000
documents are cataloged. Ex Libris Germany will provide data conversion, installation, training and ongoing support services.
The switch from the mainframe level to the UNIX/WINDOWS NT environment will allow
patrons, already familiar with WINDOWS programs, to benefit from an easier and more open library system. A company union catalog and the virtual sub-library catalogs will
facilitate the management and search of VW documents.
The new ALEPH installation is to serve not only the VW headquarters and factories at
Wolfsburg, but through the VW Intranet - also provide a professional information and communication system to the VW Group at large. Additionally, VW documents will be
accessible to the public via the FIZ Technik database in Frankfurt.
Coming a few weeks after the decision of the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Köln (HBZ), VW is the second major customer to migrate from BIS to ALEPH.
Says Norbert Schulze-Ballentin, head of the VW library: “We are happy to carry forward our
successful cooperation with the Ex Libris (Germany) team in connection with the new automation system.”
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