Press Release: Innovative Interfaces, Inc. [February 11, 2016] Emeryville, CA. Innovative Interfaces, a leading provider of library automation software that empowers libraries globally, today announced a record-setting number of implementations of the Sierra Release 2.1 following its general release in December 2015. Over 150 library systems are now live, including academic, public, national, corp
Press Release: Duke University [February 5, 2016] Duke University has received a $1.165 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the continued development of an open-source integrated library system. Known as Kuali OLE (pronounced oh-LAY), for Open Library Environment, it is the first system designed by and for academic and research libraries to manage and deliver scholarly in
University of Queensland chooses Ex Libris Alma and Primo for resource management and discovery Adelaide, Australia—January 21, 2016. Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is pleased to announce that The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia has selected the Ex Libris Alma resource management solution and the Primo discovery solution, replacing the University's previous Innovative Interfac
Press Release: Kuali Foundation [January 9, 2016] Texas A&M University Libraries announced plans to join the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) community and the Kuali Foundation as a partner. Texas A&M joins over 10 research libraries, including other leading universities such as Cornell University, Duke University, Indiana University, Lehigh University, North Carolina State University, Univers
Press Release: Ken Chad Consulting [January 7, 2016] The second in the series of HELibTech briefing papers challenges the current definition of a library services platform (LSP) and suggests ways in which library systems might develop. While a new generation of library systems has emerged there remains a very significant lack of interoperability between the various components that make up the wide
The dust has settled a bit and I’ve had the opportunity to talk to senior executives at both ProQuest and Ex Libris Group about the recent announcement that Ex Libris has been acquired by ProQuest. Now it’s time for us to sit back and start analyzing what has just happened to a couple of the major suppliers of library automation, and by any measure, this was a BIG event. I wrote a series of posts
What Are the Larger Implications of ProQuest’s Acquisition of Ex Libris? Today brings news of a major consolidation in the library vendor marketplace, with ProQuest acquiring Ex Libris. This is just the latest of an intense round of acquisitions in the vendor/intermediary marketplace and in addition to some thoughts on this particular deal it is a good moment to reflect more broadly on what is tak
Issue 30, 2015-10-15 SierraDNA – Demonstrating the Usefulness of Direct ILS Database Access Innovative Interface’s Sierra(™) Integrated Library System (ILS) brings with it a Database Navigator Application (SierraDNA) – in layman’s terms SierraDNA gives Sierra sites read access to their ILS database. Unlike the closed use cases produced by vendor supplied APIs, which restrict Libraries to limited d
Press Release: Ken Chad Consulting [October 6, 2015] A new perspective on resource management systems for libraries in Higher Education: the cloud is becoming the new normal 6th October 2015. A briefing paper written by Ken Chad for Higher Education Library Technology contrasts the library resource management landscape now with the situation in 2008 when a Jisc/SCONUL LMS study (1) recommended tha
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