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DateEvent
Feb 2007

Ingenta acquires Vista International

Company: [Ingenta] [Vista International] [The Library Corporation]

Apr 1, 2005

The Library Corporation acquires TechLogic

The Library Corporation acquired majority stock shares of Tech Logic Corporation of White Bear Lake, MN. In doing so, TLC immediately assumes responsibility for the management of Tech Logic. Tech Logic founders Mark and Linda Frich remain stockholders while continuing their active participation in the operations of the company.

Company: [The Library Corporation]

Jan 12, 2001

The Library Corporation launches YouSeeMore

Company: [The Library Corporation]

Jul 3, 2000

The Library Corporation acquires Carl Corporation from WardShaw

The Library Corporation acquired The CARL Corporation, a leading developer of automation solutions for all types of libraries. CARL is the creator of the CARL System, which is used in over 1,000 libraries of different types at 37 sites.

Company: [The Library Corporation]

Mar 2000

ingenta acquires UnCover Company from Ward Shaw

ingenta, a global research gateway, has announced that it has merged with UnCover, an article access and document delivery provider to the U.S. academic market. Under the terms of the agreement, ingenta has purchased 100 percent of UnCover's issued stock, and Ward Shaw, chairman of UnCover, will join ingenta's board.

Company: [Ingenta] [Uncover] [The Library Corporation]

Jan 1999

Ward Shaw purchases Carl Corporation and the Uncover Company

The CARL and Uncover companies were sold in late January to Ward Shaw, CARL founder and chairman of the board.

Company: [Carl Corporation] [The Library Corporation]

1997

Tech Logic founded by Mark Frich and Bob Rohlf

Mark Frich and Bob Rohlf, former CEO of Hennepin County (MN) Library, founded Tech Logic in 1997, by combining Mark's extraordinary engineering skills and Bob's legendary library leadership to resolve the laborious challenges associated with manually checking in and sorting library materials.

Company: [The Library Corporation] [Tech Logic]

1996

Annette Harwood Murphy becomes Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Library Corporation

Following the exit of co-founder Brower Murphy, Annette Harwood Murphy takes full leadership of the Library Corporation as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Company: [The Library Corporation]

Aug 9, 1995

Knight-Ridder Information acquires CARL Corporation and The UnCover Company

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, the CARL Corporation, Blackwell Limited and Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. announced on August 9, 1995 that agreements have been reached leading to the sale of the CARL Corporation and The UnCover Company to Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. of Mountain View, California.

Company: [Carl Corporation] [Uncover] [The Library Corporation]

1995

The Library Corporation launches ITS.for Windows

ITS for Windows was the sucessor product for BiblioFile Cataloging

Company: [The Library Corporation]

Jul 1994

The Library Corporation launches NlightN

Through NlightN's Universal Index, a library user can search millions of records from a wide range of databases that include general periodical indexes, indexing and abstracting services, tables of contents and indexes of reference books, bibliographic catalogs of millions of books (including the Library of Congress MARC files) , statistical and financial files from government and private sources, numerous public domain databases, timelines and timetables of history, and directories of businesses and residences. In addition, NlightN includes a growing list of full-text works, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and journal articles.

Company: [The Library Corporation]

Jun 1993

UnCover Company formed as a joint venture of Carl Systems and B.H. Blackwell

The UnCover Company formed in 1993 to advance CARL's UnCover document delivery project and has grown to become a major online information and document supply service. Blackwell and Readmore, a Blackwell company, will market Uncover internationally and CARL Systems will to market uncover as an integral part of its library management system.

Company: [The Library Corporation] [Carl Corporation] [UnCover Company]

1988

The CARL Corporation, incorporated in 1988 as for-profit spin-off of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

Company: [The Library Corporation] [Carl Corporation]

1988

Uncover article request and document delivery service launched by Carl Systems, Inc.

Company: [The Library Corporation] [Carl Corporation] [Uncover Company]

1987

The Library Corporation launches The Intelligent Catalog

The Intelligent Catalog was the first multi-media CD-ROM online catalog.

Company: [The Library Corporation]

Jun 1985

Eyring Research Institute, Inc. founds Eyring Library Systems to market Carl

The Eyring Research Institute, Inc., founded another library automation-oriented company, Eyring Library Systems. The new company will market the CARL system developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Eyring Research Institute also owns Dynix.

Company: [The Library Corporation] [Carl]

1985

TLC launches BiblioFile

The Library Corporation offers BiblioFile Cataloging as a CD-ROM based product for cataloging that included storage of MARC records.

Company: [The Library Corporation]

1982

Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries develops the CarlSystem

In 1982, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries developed the CARL integrated library system

Company: [The Library Corporation] [Carl Corporation]

1978

Colorado Alliance for Research Libraries founded

Company: [The Library Corporation]

1974

MARC Applied Research subsequently known as The Library Corporation, founded by Brower Murphy and Annette Murphy

One of the company's earliest products included its service to provide MARCFICHE to libraries.

Company: [The Library Corporation]