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

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Metadata Tagging for Smarter Searching

In practice, AI conversational search and metadata-based e-discovery solve different problems. A curated, secure archive or library database using metadata tagging and faceted search helps users identify and access the right assets with precision, delivering what artificial intelligence search cannot, including the most architecturally advanced forms of AI retrieval available today.

Legal Research Request for Law Libraries: Modernizing Research Request Intake for KM Teams

Legal research workflows have fundamentally changed. Today’s research requests are no longer simple, linear queries—they are high-value, high-pressure engagements that require validation, iteration, and coordination across attorneys, knowledge managers, and law librarians.

Legal Research Request Management

This guide discusses modern legal research challenges and workflow takeaways that can be put into practice today to help manage the demand, resources, and complexities of research requests using policies and technology that support both solo and team-based environments.

Library Automation Software: A Custom Guide to Modern LMS Solutions

This guide covers the benefits of library automation software, how cloud hosted library systems compare to on-premise deployments and what features matter most for special collections as well as public libraries. You will also learn how to evaluate...

Headed to the 2026 MLA | DLA Annual Conference?

While visiting the Soutron Global booth, attendees will have the opportunity to take the Soutron Global ILL Library Personality Quiz!

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...

Getting more (or less!) from your Archive Collections with Descriptive Dates

You want your users and researchers to find relevant content from your archive with ease and to make the whole process as simple as possible. Dates are an important element in filtering content but are often difficult for users to correctly apply and use.