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

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Knowledge Management ROI

This guide is about making that value visible. It gives special, corporate, legal and research libraries, archives and information teams a practical way to measure knowledge management ROI: a simple formula, a conservative worked example, the metrics that hold up in front of finance, and a free KM ROI calculator so you can run your own numbers.
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LibraryManagementSoftware

Library Management Software: Complete Guide for Modern Libraries

This guide covers core features, deployment types, real-world examples, selection criteria, and future trends shaping library management. Whether you're a public librarian evaluating your first ILS, a corporate information manager modernizing a special library's trusted data, or an IT administrator comparing deployment options, this library software guide covers what you need to know.
Smarter Search

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.
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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.
Top 5 Technologies for Librarians

Top 5 Technologies to Give Librarians an Impetus to Innovate

The library used to include a Systems Librarian, someone whose role was to ensure that the library was well provisioned by technology and that the systems used by the library were up to muster. I recall one law library was so ahead of the game, that the IT department would come to the library to look for new ideas! The Systems Librarian post is still
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Soutron Training Services

Considerations when Designing a Database

For many clients a package database application is the ideal solution, incorporating a set of fields and templates to reflect what are commonly accepted types of information. A prime example is that of bibliographic data (an organised collection of references to published reports, articles, books or similar). There may be a need for some
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CILIP Conference 2015

Meet Soutron at the CILIP Conference 2015

An unmissable date in the contemporary Library and Information professional’s calendar, the CILIP Conference 2015 is set to be the biggest and most inspiring conference to date, addressing Four key trends for CILIP 2015 which will play a key role in shaping our future information ecosystem
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