Library Technology Guides

Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Chooses Ex Libris Alma and Primo. Ex Libris announced that the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées has chosen the Ex Libris Alma library services platform and Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution to manage and expose its expanding collections. The Ex Libris solutions will replace the SirsiDynix Horizon integrated library system, in use since 1995. [Full Announcement].

ProQuest delivers key research information through the Digitisation of Rare Historical Content. ProQuest has further enhanced access to research this summer with the launch of the next database of Early European Books (EEB) with Collection 7, making another 7,450 titles available. This will bring the EEB program to more than 40,000 titles and 14 million pages of valuable images from the early modern period. The total number of page images in EEB now surpasses the number of page images in ProQuest’s acclaimed Early English Books Online, EEBO database. The continual development of EEB reflects ProQuest’s commitment to digitising unique content from the early modern period, enabling researchers to go deeper in their area of expertise and generate superior outcomes. Learn more about Early European Books here [Full Announcement].

ProQuest transforms research with digitization of rare, historical works from Bibliothèque nationale de France. Researchers can now explore early European history and culture as it happened with ProQuest’s release of the first 2 million pages in its massive digitization project with Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. When complete, the project will give researchers cover to cover access to more than 28,000 rare European books printed from 1400 to 1700 – 10 million pages – in crisp, fully searchable images. Approximately 5,800 titles are now available in Collections 4 and 6 of ProQuest’s Early European Books, enabling researchers around the world to benefit from the Library’s centuries of acquisition, curation and preservation. [Full Announcement].

University François-Rabelais de Tours first to select Sierra Services Platform in France. Innovative announced today that University François-Rabelais de Tours Libraries is the first institution in France to select the Sierra Services Platform. The University's multi-library campus system includes five main university libraries, a documentation center and 14 special libraries. In all, Libraries make available over 600,000 volumes and over 5,000 periodical titles, as well as 20,000 eJournal titles and 20,000 eBooks obtained by subscription. [Full Announcement].

New Agreement with Dutch National Library Extends ProQuest's Early European Books Program. ProQuest will digitize more than 30,000 rare early books from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, capturing every volume in high-resolution color scans. This is the third major European national library to participate in ProQuest's Early European Books project after the Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze in Italy. As with the agreements in Denmark and Italy, the material will be free to access in the host country. [Full Announcement].

Université François-Rabelais de Tours selects Innovative product suite. Innovative announced that Université François-Rabelais de Tours Information Services has selected a suite of Innovative products to support its multi-library campus system that includes five main university libraries and a number of special libraries. [Full Announcement].

London and South Eastern Library Region (LASER). PRIDE launches a demonstrator of a Directory of library users and services: An information infrastructure for the library world. The PRIDE project has launched a demonstrator of a directory system that is a model for an information infrastructure for the library community, and potentially the key to interoperability. The directory is a place to store descriptive information about organisations, services, people. It can store information such as addresses of libraries, descriptions of their print and electronic collections, contact details for the ILL librarian, details of Web services from libraries or publishers, technical details of services such as location of Z39.50 targets. Maintenance of a PRIDE directory is distributed, so that those with the most current information about details of a service maintain information about it. PRIDE has developed a number of agents and harvesters to maintain the directory largely automatically. [Full Announcement].

Historic Sorbonne licenses ALEPH. Ex Libris announces that the university libraries of Paris IV University have chosen ALEPH 500, a few weeks only after being awarded similar contracts by the Rene Descartes (Paris V) University and the Catholic University of Lyon. [Full Announcement].

Une, deux Catholic University of Lyon chooses ALEPH. Ex Libris announces the selection by the Université Catholique de Lyon (Catholyon) to replace a SIBIL system with ALEPH 500 at the university''s central library and eight branch libraries. [Full Announcement].

Datapoint Equips Fourth Major Parisian University with ALEPH 500. Ex Libris'' has received an order from the Paris V university to replace its current mix of library automation systems with the latest version of ALEPH 500. [Full Announcement].