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October 17, 2011 |
Syndetics Solutions Adds Doody's Book Reviews Doody's Book Reviews is a source of reviews of medical and healthcare works.   |
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June 10, 2010 |
Bowker Enhances Its Suite of Library Resources Enhancements include Books In Print, Syndetic Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues. |
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November 21, 2013 |
Facebook App Enables Library OPAC Searches Syndetic Solutions, ProQuest's OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, introduced a free Facebook app for its library subscribers. |
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April 1, 2010 |
Bowker Adds New Features to OPAC-Enrichment Tool Syndetics, used by librarians for its ability to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogs, now enables libraries to provide video clips, book reviews from The New York Times, and searchable fiction profiles to their users through their OPACs. |
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March 29, 2010 |
Bowker Adds Video Clips, Reader Advisory Content to Syndetics for Library OPACs Bowker, a business unit of ProQuest, has added new features to its popular OPAC-enrichment tool, Syndetics, that make it easier for library users to choose catalog titles and get ideas for new titles that match their interests. |
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December 15, 2008 |
SirsiDynix Adds Community Review Features SirsiDynix announced a partnership with ChiliFresh, offering libraries and patrons an easy way to create and read reader reviews, with complete customization abilities for libraries. |
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January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
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July 2, 2007 |
R.R. Bowker Acquires Medialab Solutions R.R. Bowker has announced its acquisition of Medialab Solutions, creators of the AquaBrowser Library search and discovery platform. |
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July 13, 2009 |
Bowker Introduces Books In Print 2.0 BIP 2.0 is a new dynamic book search and discovery platform that provides librarians, researchers, and library patrons with access to the richest set of book information available in the reference market. |
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December 20, 2012 |
OhioLINK Chooses EBSCO to Provide Discovery Layer The Ohio Library and Information Network and its Library Advisory Council selected EBSCO Publishing to provide EBSCO Discovery Service as a shared service to OhioLINK libraries. |
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July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
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December 2000 |
King County Library System Selects Syndetic Solutions Syndetic Solutions, Inc. has announced that it will supply enhanced bibliographic information to the King County Library System in Seattle... |
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September 17, 2015 |
Boopsie Reviews Its 2Q 2015 Accomplishments Boopsie for Libraries shared its most recent milestones: It has signed 12 new library clients in multiple library markets. |
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November 2000 |
SIRSI Announces iBistro Alliances, Implementation of Unicorn System SIRSI Corp. has announced an alliance with netLibrary to integrate the latter's e-book infrastructure into SIRSI's new iBistro Internet Access Center... |
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January 24, 2008
Barbara Quint |
"Hey, Buddy! Want to Read A Good Book?" Cengage Gale's Books & Authors Despite the rise of recommendation engines on every online bookstore site, readers' advisory services still persist as a basic function of public library reference operations. |
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July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
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May 26, 2011 |
EOS International Announces Release Schedule for OPAC Discovery The Discovery product allows corporate, legal, medical, government, academic, digital, and special libraries to customize the capability as well as look and feel of their OPACs. |
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July 9, 2012 |
NoveList Select Gains New Features and Options New features improve the user experience, as well as offer new upgrade options, including book jackets, professional book reviews, sample excerpts, tables of contents, and more, from Content Cafe -- a database offered by Baker & Taylor. |
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June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
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June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
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October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation. |
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July 17, 2014 |
Baker & Taylor Integrates Axis 360 API With Polaris ILS This partnership is designed to simplify patrons' discovery experience and improve digital library administration. |
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September 4, 2014 |
WorldCat Adds Holdings From China The Shanghai Library contributed 2 million holdings to WorldCat -- including about 770,000 unique bibliographic records -- making the library's collection available worldwide. |
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Sony Announces Inaugural Participants in Reader Library Program The program will provide participating libraries with in-house training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help librarians and patrons learn more about ebooks, and digital reading devices for library staff use and patron demonstrations. |
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October 6, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services. |
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October 4, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest R.R. Bowker Acquires Syndetic Solutions... Library Groups Endorse Intellectual Property Declaration... Swets Launches SwetsWise Linker... |
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November 7, 2013 |
Alexander Street Press Hosts Streaming Media Libraries have a new option for streaming their multimedia content: Alexander Street Press announced a single-platform hosting service for music and videos. |
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April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
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September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
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March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
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July 9, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
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May 6, 2014
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Opens Masses of Content to Third-Party Discovery Services EBSCO Information Services, a leading supplier of aggregated content to libraries, has at last opened up its metadata and, if contractually possible, most of its full-text content to outside discovery services. |
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July 7, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Digital Magazine Services for Your Library This Summer The following services help libraries offer e-magazines to their patrons. Read on to compare their features and for a sneak peek of what they're doing next. |
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October 9, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Partners With NOOK for Library Lending U.S. libraries can purchase GlowLight e-readers directly from Barnes & Noble to loan to their patrons and offer access to 3M Cloud Library titles on the devices. |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
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January 26, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
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March 12, 2012 |
3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing. |
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January 24, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services. |
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April 28, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas. |
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October 24, 2013 |
NISO's Open Discovery Initiative Releases Recommended Practice Draft This recommended practice from the National Information Standards Organization provides guidelines for content providers and discovery service creators on how to address issues that arise in the use of indexed search as part of library discovery services. |
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February 23, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest LC Database Implements OpenURL Linking... Bowker Launches PatronBooksInPrint.com... HP Creating Digital Archive of Time Magazine... |
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November 17, 2011
Marshall Breeding |
NISO Launches Open Discovery Initiative Momentum has been building for a new genre of discovery services based on centralized indexes. |
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November 19, 2012 |
New Findings Reaffirm Library Borrowers Are Also Buyers An extensive online poll of library ebook readers finds that these patrons purchase an average of 3.2 books (both print and ebooks) each month, and a majority would consider purchasing books discovered on a library website. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
D-Lib
January 2000
David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries... |
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October 20, 2011 |
Pew Research Center Unveils New Initiative on Libraries in Digital Age The Pew Research Center announced plans to study how the role of public libraries is changing in the digital age and how library patrons' needs and expectations are shifting. |
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September 24, 2009 |
SirsiDynix Announces General Availability of Enterprise 3.0 Enterprise 3.0 offers users a single search well to discover all resources the library makes available. Those resources might include one or more library catalogs, digital collections, selected websites, and federated resources. |
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September 3, 2002 |
News Digest Information Science Abstracts Now Available on EBSCOhost... R.R. Bowker Launches BookIndustyLocator.com Service... Seattle Public Libraries Temporarily Close Due to Budget Cuts |
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Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
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December 2000 |
Innovative Interfaces Announces E-Book Integration, Millennium Implementations Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced the integration of netLibrary e-books into its INNOPAC and Millennium library automation systems... |
