BRISTOL, England (Oct. 2000) The Library at the University of the West of England has added SIRSI's Hyperion Digital Media Archive to its Unicorn Library Management System.
The Library provides information services to more than 22,000 students in support of learning, teaching, professional development and research. The addition of Hyperion will give desktop access to a unique collection of archive materials, image databases, learning materials and University documents that will support students in the online electronic learning environment being developed by the University. Hyperion's staff client will be used for metadata, hierarchy, text indexing (Natural Language Processing-based retrieval of Acrobat and text documents), and batch importing.
Ali Taylor, Acting Head of Library Services, said: "Hyperion will enable us to offer our users "one-stop-shop" access to a range of information resources, supporting a network of virtual, interactive learning environments, as part of the Networked Learning Support Framework."
SIRSI, the leader in library technology, is a privately held company founded in 1979, with headquarters in Huntsville, Ala. SIRSI uses the most advanced technology available to provide easy-to-use information systems for libraries, businesses, and archives. With offices in major U.S. cities and subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom, the company has established its Unicorn products as the leading client/server library information system in the world.
