Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary
For a number of years, I have been frustrated by publishers for whom digital eBooks are a protected species: more expensive than the physical equivalent and not to be sold by anyone other than…
Book Publishers and Power to the People!
For a number of years, I have been frustrated by publishers for whom digital eBooks are a protected species: more expensive than the physical equivalent and not to be sold by anyone other than…
Modernising Library Automation: New Code and New Designs
Our Modernising Software Agenda: a strategy to modernise and streamline library automation workflows…
Benefits of using Single Sign On / Active Directory in your Library & Archive
What are the benefits of using SSO / AD in your Library or Archive Metadata and content are the essential and central focus for all information professionals, archivists and librarians. When implementing a new system or migrating from an old information management system it is especially important to get data structures and metadata consistent and […]
Robots in Libraries
I am very impressed that some libraries have embraced robots. I would love to meet in particular the “Shelf Reading” robot…
Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary
2019 has arrived and we are happy to be celebrating the 30th anniversary of our company, first established in March 1989. Our business was set up to automate and support IT systems for corporate libraries and we remain totally focused on…
Data Migration – What’s holding you back?
Data migration and conversion is critical to the success of any new system implementation, irrespective of the size of library. But it’s more than simply “migration”. It’s the opportunity to re-visit data, re-structure data, create relationships and present information in a better way.
Beyond Library – Librarians in Control
Years after the first EDM (Electronic Document Management) systems appeared, their search capabilities still leave a lot to be desired. Is it because authors of documents do not index their documents? Or is it that search is poorly implemented in such systems?
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
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…