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Breeding, Marshall. Softlink International Realigns its Forces. October 2009. Smart Libraries Newsletter. Softlink International, a global company that produces the Liberty and Oliver library automation systems, has made a number of noteworthy changes over the last year. They have installed a new CEO for the global company and new management at their US subsidiary, and have incorporated a major independent distributor into the parent company. Softlink International reports that its software finds use in over 10,000 libraries spanning 108 countries, making it a key player in the library software world. The company offers library automation products for school, corporate, academic, and public libraries. In the United States Softlink has not gained wide adoption in large public or academic libraries, but has a substantial presence in school and corporate libraries.

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May 25, 2021. Softlink IC’s Annual Library Survey is Now Open. The Softlink IC Annual Library Survey is designed to identify important statistical information, such as staffing and budgets, library practices, services, resourcing, and trends around the world.

April 14, 2021. The Queensland Parliamentary Library chooses Softlink IC’s Liberty and illumin. Softlink Information Centres is delighted to announce the Queensland Parliamentary Library recently selected Liberty as their new library management system and illumin as their research management system.

February 2, 2021. The Central Land Council Goes Live with Liberty and Orbit Library Management System. Softlink Information Centres congratulates the Central Land Council Library in Australia's Northern Territory on the successful launch of Liberty and Orbit library management system.

December 2, 2020. Central Land Council Goes Live with Liberty v5 and Orbit, Library Management System. On December 2nd, 2020, the Alice Springs based Central Land Council (CLC), went live with Softlink IC's Liberty v5.

Sep 2013 Volaris Group acquires Softlink International
Volaris Group announced that it has acquired a company in the Library Management vertical. (Softlink International) The acquisition is Volaris’ first investment in this particular vertical market. The acquired company provides solutions that help to manage the full process of cataloguing, lending and acquiring both digital and physical assets, enabling libraries to optimize their knowledge management processes and improve their library operations.

Sep 03, 2009 Catherine Leonard appointed as General Manager for Softlink America
Manager of Softlink Pacific, Catherine Leonard, will relocate to the US to manage Softlink America from its Seattle office. Leonard has 25 years experience in the library and information management industry, including ten at Softlink and five years as Manager of Softlink Pacific in Auckland.

Sep 03, 2009 Nathan Godfrey has been appointed Chief Operating Officer for Softlink International
Chief Financial Officer Nathan Godfrey has been appointed Chief Operating Officer at Softlink’s Brisbane head office

May 05, 2009 Softlink International acquires Softlink Europe
Softlink International acquires Softlink Europe, based in Oxford, UK. Softlink gains direct ownership of Oxford-based office, staff and prestigious customers that include, Birmingham Law Society, Eton College and Cambridge University.

Aug 15, 2008 Kim Duffy joins Softlink International as Global Chief Executive Officer
Formerly CEO of ISS and TSW International, Duffy’s career to date has demonstrated an ability to successfully manage, develop and expand operations to meet and create demand in an International market.

Jul 29, 2008 Softlink CEO and co-founder, Bob Dunne retires

Jan 31, 2005 Softlink Europe acquires Limes Software
On January 31st, Softlink Europe announced the merger with Limes Software. In future, Softlink will be handling the support and services for Limes users. Limes staff have joined Softlink, and along with new staff will provide the necessary skills. Over the next few weeks we will be carrying out a review of Limes products and services with a view to ensuring all our clients have access to the best possible systems.

Dec 09, 2004 Softlink International launches Oliver
Oliver will complement Softlink's existing products: Alice and Liberty3 which are still available and will continue to be improved and supported.

Mar 25, 2004 Robert Corrao appointed as president of Softlink America
Softlink America announced the relocation of its North American headquarters to Los Angeles, California from Denver, Colorado. Additionally, Soflink America announces the appointment of Robert Corrao as president of the North America business unit. This formal announcement comes on the heals of record setting revenue growth for the 20-year old international software company.

Mar 2002 Softlink introduces Liberty 3 into United States
Softlink America today announced the introduction of Softlink Liberty3 to the U.S. library market.

2002 Softlink Pacific acquires New Solutions Limited

2000 Bob Dunne named Chief Executive Officer of Softlink International
Founder and CEO John Dunne steps down due to illness. His brother and co-founder Bob Dunne steps in as CEO.

1997 Softlink launches Alice for Windows

1996 Softlink International launches Alice

1993 Softlink launches Oliver

1992 Softlink Europe established

1988 Softlink introduces OASIS

1985 ALARM -- Softlink's first LMS introduced
ALARM -- Softlink's first LMS introduced in All Hallow's School Brisbane

1985 Bob Dunne joins Softlink
Bob Dunne joins John Dunne at Softlink

1983 Softlink International founded by John Dunne
Upon founding Softlink in 1983, John Dunne developed the company’s first library management system (LMS) ALARM and subsequently grew Softlink’s global presence and customer base across 108 nations before leaving Softlink at the end of 2000.

2020 Softlink Information Centres Accomplishments Narrative

Softlink Information Centres’ 2020 focus was on increasing the profile of both Liberty v5 and illumin in the US legal and corporate library sector. The advent of Covid-19 has made that somewhat challenging.

Despite that, awareness of our research management system, illumin, continues to increase as corporate and government libraries look for cost effective and efficient ways to manage their increasing request loads.

Travel restrictions made traditional modes of interaction impossible as we ensured the health of our users, prospective customers, and our staff was not compromised.To ensure we did not loose touch, we made even greater use of technology whenever and wherever possible.

Our face-to-face User Group Meetings, Boot Camp series and training sessions were delivered virtually. We created training and information videos and continued to cover a variety of topics on our blog page. Any avenue we could find to keep in contact we used!

We continued to deliver a program of releases, that meet our goal of delivering a management system that is functionally rich and easy to use for library and knowledge centre staff and their users. New features included:

The AI Enhance feature on our Liberty Link app makes adding valuable metadata to resource records less labour intensive.

The ability to stocktake using mobile devices.

A secure visitor logging feature in anticipation of the re-opening of libraries and knowledge centres as the Covid-19 restrictions begin to ease.

The much anticipated ’Smart’ Serials option which includes workflow improvements.

All in all, despite a challenging year for everyone, it was a full and successful year. We welcomed several new customers into the fold including the Central Lands Council in the Northern Territory and Lamar College in Texas. We look forward to a great 2021.