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November 1, 2012 |
Credo's Literati Links to Librarians Literati delivers a blend of technology, content and services that enable research effectiveness and digital and information literacy.   |
Information Today
February 8, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Texting Coming to QuestionPoint via OCLC Collaboration with Mosio OCLC's QuestionPoint, the leading suite of virtual reference tools for libraries, is continuing to build its mobile offerings. |
Information Today
November 17, 2011 |
New Resources From NoveList to Connect Library Patrons to Services The NoveList website and a corresponding Facebook page have been designed to help librarians connect their patrons to more books and more library services. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
February 20, 2014 |
ProQuest and OCLC Partner for Library Discovery ProQuest added more than 320 million records from the ProQuest Central cross-disciplinary research tool to OCLC's WorldCat Discovery Services, a combination of OCLC's FirstSearch and WorldCat Local that debuts in March. |
Information Today
July 22, 2014 |
ProQuest Integrates Flow and Summon Services Researchers have persistent access across both platforms, which allows them to save reference citations, collaborate with colleagues, and share content. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2010 |
Facebook Seen Challenging Google With Webmail Rumor mill kicks into overdrive ahead of Facebook's mystery event at company headquarters next week, with the best odds calling for a new Webmail service to rival Google's Gmail. |
Information Today
June 21, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Primo Upgrade From Ex Libris Builds on Customization Strengths According to one expert, Primo has particular appeal to academic and research libraries in part due to the way its "toolkit" approach allows librarians to customize the service to their particular collections and clienteles. |
Information Today
April 1, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Serials Solutions' Summon 2.0 Coming in June One of the most popular discovery engines -- Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company -- should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version. |
Information Today
October 13, 2015
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest to Acquire Ex Libris Group In a move that caught most of the library world by surprise, on Oct. 6, 2015, ProQuest announced its intention to acquire Israel-based Ex Libris Group from private equity company Golden Gate Capital. |
Information Today
February 2, 2012 |
WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications. |
Information Today
October 21, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Enhances Its Family of 360 Services Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced that it has made significant enhancements to its family of 360 Services for discovery, enabling librarians worldwide to activate a wide variety of new patron-facing tools and localization capabilities. |
Information Today
October 2, 2014 |
ProQuest's Collections Are Now Discoverable Through Primo Ex Libris Group agreed to index 200-plus ProQuest databases -- such as ProQuest Central and ABI/INFORM -- in the Primo Central Index so they can be found via the Primo discovery service. |
Information Today
July 20, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Builds on EBSCOhost Platform With New Search Services Providing a single point of access to a broad range of library materials seems to be emerging as the Holy Grail of the library world. |
Information Today
May 6, 2014
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Opens Masses of Content to Third-Party Discovery Services EBSCO Information Services, a leading supplier of aggregated content to libraries, has at last opened up its metadata and, if contractually possible, most of its full-text content to outside discovery services. |
Information Today
July 13, 2009
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010. |
Information Today
November 21, 2013 |
Facebook App Enables Library OPAC Searches Syndetic Solutions, ProQuest's OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, introduced a free Facebook app for its library subscribers. |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
Information Today
November 19, 2015
Corilee Christou |
ProQuest Enhancements: Users First It's been 7 years since ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. At that time, librarians worldwide were either exhilarated or dismayed. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011 |
Elsevier and Ex Libris Group Announce Collaboration Elsevier and Ex Libris Group announced their collaboration to make the full text of SciVerse ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks searchable in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index. |
Searcher
June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light? |
InternetNews
November 15, 2010 |
Facebook Messages, the Next Step Beyond Email? Facebook unwraps a new system for collecting online communications in one unified format. |
Information Today
January 7, 2010 |
EBSCO to Launch EBSCONET ERM Essentials Following successful beta testing by library customers, EBSCO is planning for the launch of EBSCONET ERM Essentials, which offers key features that librarians need to simplify management of their e-resources. |
Information Today
August 27, 2015 |
ProQuest Debuts Platform Enhancements The company used deep analysis of researcher behaviors, extensive testing with users and librarians, and other testing to improve the discovery of and access to ProQuest content. |
CRM
October 2, 2012 |
Nimble Updates Its Social Relationship Manager Adds social context to your contacts, including a Gmail widget and foursquare integration. |
Information Today
June 30, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections. |
Information Today
January 11, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Releases Its EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO is going head to head with the Summon service from Serials Solutions, which has content agreements with ProQuest, Gale, LexisNexis, and others. |
Fast Company
Elizabeth Segran |
Now You Can Buy Concert Tickets On Facebook Facebook is only just beginning to explore ticketing as part of its wider effort to make e-commerce easier on the platform. |
Information Today
March 19, 2007 |
OCLC Acquires TechAtlas Tech Planning Software OCLC has acquired TechAtlas technology planning software and begin an intensive round of design and development work to extend its features. |
Information Today
November 8, 2010 |
OCLC and EBSCO Announce Expanded Data Exchange The new agreement is designed to create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. |
Information Today
November 14, 2013 |
ProQuest Enters Automation Beta Phase ProQuest entered a beta test phase to automate ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) holdings updates in its Summon service and 360 discovery and management services. |
AFP eWire
July 24, 2013
Jenny Mitchell |
Why Won't They Reply To My Email? No, they're not ignoring you. They are living, working and playing through different communication channels. Email -- a "communications staple" of our office lives -- is much less important to young people. |
Information Today
August 3, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Library Reference Services Are on an Info Quest The patrons of approximately 50 libraries from all over the U.S. are now able to text a question from their mobile phones to 309-222-7740 and a "real, live librarian" will respond within minutes. |
Information Today
November 19, 2013 |
OverDrive Media Station Debuts Patrons have a new way to browse a library's ebook, audiobook, music, and video collections: The OverDrive Media Station is available as a browsing and checkout terminal for all OverDrive member library systems. |
Searcher
September 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. |
Information Today
May 12, 2015 |
EBSCO Rolls Out Newsletter Builder EBSCO Information Services launched Newsletter Builder, a tool that helps corporate librarians and information professionals customize enewsletters for sharing information across their organizations. |
Information Today
October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
Information Today
September 4, 2007 |
Call for Librarians to "Slam the Boards" on Sept. 10 To raise library services awareness, librarians are being urged to "slam the boards," such as Yahoo! Answers, Amazon's Askville, The Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others -- answering as many questions as they can using authoritative sources. |
Information Today
November 17, 2011
Marshall Breeding |
NISO Launches Open Discovery Initiative Momentum has been building for a new genre of discovery services based on centralized indexes. |
Information Today
March 26, 2012 |
Ex Libris and Bibliotheca Collaborate to Provide RFID Solutions to Libraries The agreement enables Ex Libris to provide seamless integration between Ex Libris solutions and Bibliotheca's circulation, security, and material-handling products. |
Information Today
October 6, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services. |
Information Today
November 12, 2013 |
ProQuest and OCLC Automate WorldCat Updates OCLC and ProQuest are collaborating on an automation process for updating holdings from ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) and offering current links in the WorldCat database and in library catalogs. |
Information Today
August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
Information Today
June 24, 2014 |
TLC Unveils Web-Based Product Line The new product line facilitates desk-free interactions with library patrons through the products' web-based, mobile functionality. |
Information Today
November 6, 2008 |
ProQuest Introduces Redesigned Website Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a more powerful search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end users to library gateways. |
Information Today
March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
Information Today
December 20, 2012 |
OhioLINK Chooses EBSCO to Provide Discovery Layer The Ohio Library and Information Network and its Library Advisory Council selected EBSCO Publishing to provide EBSCO Discovery Service as a shared service to OhioLINK libraries. |
Information Today
November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services. |
Information Today
September 2000 |
Bell & Howell Information and Learning Unveils ProQuest 4.0 4.0 adds an intelligent document-linking capability to their online information research system. |
Information Today
November 19, 2013 |
Ex Libris Group Collaborates on E-Resource Management Ex Libris Group partnered with Jisc to enhance e-resource management for U.K. libraries. |
