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After reviewing the market and finding every other vendor offered systems built for academic or public libraries, OUP chose Soutron for its willingness to develop a genuinely tailored solution. The result was a cloud-based system with simultaneous multi-user access, customizable usage reports, and a helpdesk that writes new reports on request, giving the library team the evidence they needed to demonstrate value to senior management.
Oxford University Press is the world’s largest university press with the widest global presence and offices in 50 countries. They offer an incredibly diverse publishing programme in many countries, in more than 40 languages, and in a variety of formats, print and digital.
As a department of the University of Oxford their worldwide publishing furthers the University’s objectives of excellence in scholarship, research and education.
They currently publish more than 6,000 titles a year worldwide, in a variety of formats. A range that includes dictionaries, English language teaching materials, children’s books, journals, scholarly monographs, printed music, higher education textbooks and schoolbooks.
“Soutron provided the perfect solution for a corporate library.”
Andrea Cable
Bookshop and Library Manager
Andrea Cable, Bookshop and Library Manager says “After researching and speaking with the marketplace vendors at the time, it became very clear that their products all provided solutions for academic or public libraries that were overly complicated for a busy Publisher’s library such as ourselves with strong emphasis on business information services”
“We chose Soutron because they were the only supplier, who bid for our business that were genuinely willing to help develop an LMS solution that was really tailored to our specific needs.”
Andrea says “The professionalism and willingness to support OUP and the provision of a comprehensive demonstration of their solution convinced my team that Soutron was the best choice of supplier for our new library management solution.”
“We must add that compared to other LMS suppliers Soutron provided the perfect solution for a corporate library.”
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To be able to demonstrate to management how important a library is within an organization is key to the existence of many corporate libraries today.
Soutron LMS has a selection of reports available that can be produced with statistics and reports on usage. These can be customized with ease. Andrea says, “These reports have helped prove just how valuable the library is to the organization at director level, thanks to the excellent reporting features of the LMS and the willingness of the after sales service team to write new reports for us as we require.”
Soutron comes fully managed with a personalized help desk and application or technical support on hand whenever needed. Andrea concludes by saying “The communications we receive and the support from the help desk is simply outstanding.”
OUP are currently looking at extending the use of Soutron LMS for other applications within the organization, such is the flexibility of the underlying database. Exciting times ahead.
Learn more about OUP by visiting their website: www.oup.com
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“These reports have helped prove just how valuable the library is to the organization at director level.”
Andrea Cable
Bookshop and Library Manager
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Yes. Soutron builds tailored library management solutions for corporate and publisher libraries. Oxford University Press chose Soutron specifically because every other vendor offered systems designed for academic or public libraries that were overly complex for a busy publisher's library with a strong focus on business information services.
Yes. Soutron integrates with SharePoint and EBSCO, providing universal cloud-based access alongside connectivity to a central search facility. OUP required both integrations as part of their 2012 procurement and Soutron delivered both as part of the tailored solution.
Yes. Soutron includes a range of customizable usage and statistics reports. OUP Library Manager Andrea Cable described how Soutron's reporting features, combined with the helpdesk team's willingness to write new reports on request, helped prove the library's value to the organization at director level.
Yes. Soutron is a cloud-based system that supports simultaneous access for all users with no performance issues. OUP noted this specifically as an advantage over previous systems, particularly given the volume of accessions they process each week.
