Soutron Global Blog of Search, Knowledge Services, Archive and Library Management

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IMLS & LSTA Slashing Your Library Funding? SHAREit Offers a Lifeline

Soutron Global Acquires Auto-Graphics

Soutron Global is excited to announce the acquisition of Auto-Graphics, Inc...

Meet Soutron Global at the CILIP Suppliers Showcase Spring 2025

We are very pleased to announce a return to the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Suppliers Showcase in London...

Soutron Global Launches MINISIS Trusted Digital Repository for Comprehensive Digital Preservation

Soutron Global announce the availability of MINISIS Trusted Digital Repository (TDR). Designed to meet the growing needs of organizations to securely store and ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Added to Soutron Discovery v9.0

Soutron a Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 10, Software as a Service (SaaS) Supplier

We are pleased to announce that for the sixth year running Soutron has continued to gain supplier status on the Crown Commercial Services G-Cloud 10, as a Software as a Service (SaaS) supplier.

Google Analytics Integration for your Library and Archive

The eagerly awaited Search Portal integration with Google Analytics. For those who use the Soutron Search Portal to provide public facing access to your library or archive, this integration with Google Analytics will help you better understand your users’ behaviour.

Hazardous Materials

We are at BIALL this week. The British and Irish Law Librarians Conference in Birmingham, well almost, if you can call the NEC Hilton, in Birmingham. Shame that we were not closer to the town and all it can offer! But it was a chance to meet up with friends from times past as well as

Introducing the NEW Soutron 4.1 Software Update

Get to know our software that introduces a new form of practicality, offering faster processing of data, ease of use and features than any other library automation system for special and corporate libraries...

Choice. It’s important to have choices in life and information management

Facebook’s CEO’s 5 hours explaining a business model to the USA’s top legislative chambers shows that experience really does pay off in avoiding mistakes. Full alignment to a...

BIALL Conference 2018, Meet us there!

We are very pleased to announce that this June 2018 Soutron will be attending the BIALL Conference at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole to showcase our Legal Library Automation software. Witness the future of Legal Library...

Meet Soutron at the CILIP LMS Suppliers Spring Showcase 2018

We are pleased to announce that Soutron will be exhibiting at CILIP’s LMS Suppliers Spring Showcase in London on Friday 9th March 2018. The Showcase is an informal and relaxed, “non-sales” environment allowing you to meet us face-to-face so that you can...

The world of information, open access and Aaron Swartz

In twelve years, he accomplished remarkable achievements such as the creation of RSS Feeds at the age of 14, being a co founder of Reddit to name two. He advanced the ideas of creating Wikipedia and...

Seasons Greeting’s & Holiday Support Times

As 2017 comes to a close, we want to wish you all a very happy, healthy Christmas and a prosperous 2018! The Soutron offices will close for the festive season on...