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October 99

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This month’s stories

[FDI sites]
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Aleph new contracts]
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Innovative news]
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Athena in Atlanta]
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Q Series V.2]
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Sirsi news]
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NLC - Amicus]
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Ameritech sold

After a year of rumours, Ameritech has finally (November 4th) announced its Dynix/Notis library services division sale to an investment group.       details

OCLC abandons plans for non-standard ILL protocols.                                               details

OCLC announced that their new ILL protocols wouldconform with the ISO standards - allowing third party systems to “trade” seamlessly with the OCLC - the largest interlending system in the world. Also new customers for Wings                             details

Techlib / Livelink - a Web based library and KM system                                                   reviewed

Open Text bought Techlib over a year ago and have now integrated the text retrieval library application with their Knowledge Management Livelink system.  Is this the new “killer application” for the corporate market?                                          Review

Innovative new sites

Innovative have anounced a major sale in Africa and Maine state. Also Libertas upgrades in Sweden.                          details

Athena in Atlanta

Athena continue their success in winning major schools contracts in the US - the latest sale is 97 schools in Atlanta.    details

New Aleph contracts and Unicode progress

Ex-Libris have an impressive bag of new sites including libraries in Germany, Mexico and Ireland. They have also joined the Unicode consortium.                                                            details

Fretwell-Downing continue in UK

A review of FDI’s new sites in the shows them building on their strength in the UK Corporate and Further Education sector and some US success.                                                 details

Sirsi - investment partner and further sales

Sirsi have announced an investment alliance and further sales in US and UK.                                                             details

E-Journal update

Harrassowitz have updated their E-journal information guide. It covers the history, standards and isssues involved with E-Journals.
www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejres guide.html

Procite 5 released

Procite have released their latest version - and have added Z39.50 access to library catalaogues. Details

Geac grows again

Geac has purchased JBA, a leading ERP and supply chain software supplier. This makes Geac the 4th largest application software businesses with combined annualized revenue of more than C$1.3 billion, over 30,000 customers and 6,000 employees. The top three are: SAP, Oracle and Peoplesoft.

EOSi, Q series V. 2 released

EOSi have released version 2 of their Q Series product.  details

New services from NLC

NLC have released new services based on their Amicus software. details