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Harry Samuels Named Digital Library Projects Coordinator : Ensures Functionality of ENCompass, Citation Server for Endeavor Digital Libraries. Des Plaines, IL, March 27, 2001. Endeavor Information Systems announced that Harry Samuels joined Endeavor Information Systems as the Digital Library Projects Coordinator. In this role, Samuels works with the Endeavor Digital Library Development staff in the timing and functionality of digital library products. Samuels ensures that Endeavor's digital library goals anticipate and reflect the needs of the changing library marketplace and adherence to emerging digital standards. Samuels is integral in Endeavor's current implementation of Open Linking Technologies into both ENCompass and the Citation Server electronic database management system.

American Electric Power Company Switches to SIRSI. Huntsville, AL, March 23, 2001. American Electric Power Company, one of the nation's largest generators of electricity, has chosen Sirsi Corporation's Unicorn Library Management System for its corporate library. According to AEP's Knowledge and Research Services Coordinator Gerry Greenwood, "We evaluated a variety of automation systems, comparing stability, reporting function, intuitive serials management and MARC record handling capability.  We determined that SIRSI best met our operational requirements."

SIRSI Creates New Division for Academic Libraries. Denver, CO, March 16, 2001. Sirsi Corporation has announced the formation of LINK, a new division of SIRSI chartered to focus solely on the unique needs of leading academic and research libraries and their users worldwide. The new LINK software configuration just launched by the new division includes fully integrated

Ithaca College Library Selects Voyager System : Pain-Free Staff Clients Demonstrate Voyager as an "Information Tool". Des Plaines, IL, March 16, 2001. Endeavor Information Systems announced today the Ithaca College Library, Ithaca, New York, has chosen the Voyager integrated library management system for the college's 300,000 volume library. Serving over 6,000 students and 500 faculty, the Ithaca College Library plans to implement the Voyager system this fall.

STAR/WorkSaver II Released. STAR/WorkSaver II is a new CA knowledge management solution for capturing, describing, and retrieving all types of incoming and outgoing electronic files.

GIS Names Allison Perry Manager of GALAXY Customer Operations, Syracuse, NY, March, 2001. Gaylord Information Systems (GIS) has announced the promotion of Allison Perry to Manager, GALAXY Customer Operations.  Perry joined GIS in 1996 to work with GALAXY Internet-related products and services, including SuperBROWSE and SuperLINK.  Most recently she served as Manager, Market Research and Customer Sales, where she had major responsibility for helping GALAXY customers derive the maximum benefit from their GALAXY systems through the GIS Continuum of Services

Endeavor Provides Solaris 8 Upgrades To Voyager Customers : Cost-Free OS Upgrade Sign of Endeavor Commitment to Customers, Technology. Des Plaines, IL, March 13, 2001. During March and April, Endeavor Information Systems is upgrading Voyager integrated library management system customers on the Sun Microsystems Solaris hardware platform from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8--at no additional cost to the customers

Geac Announces Improved Third Quarter Performance. Toronto, Ontario, March 13, 2001. Geac Computer Corporation Limited announced today the results for the three months ended January 31, 2001. Revenues from continuing operations were $218.0 million during the third quarter compared with $278.3 million during the third quarter last year, and $203.8 million in the second quarter of the current fiscal year.

Inmagic’s v5.0 of DB/TextWorks Features Relevance Ranking. Woburn, MA, March 13, 2001. Inmagic, Inc. a leading developer of knowledge and special library management software, announces the release of version 5.0 of its flagship product, DB/TextWorks, which includes the Web publishing components DB/Text WebPublisher and WebPublisher Lite. Version 5.0 now features relevance ranking as well as other enhancements.

Carleton University Library contracts with A-G Canada, Ltd. for Bibliographic Data Upgrade Services. Pomona, CA., March 12, 2001. Auto-Graphics, a provider of Application Service Provider (ASP) services for libraries announced that its subsidiary A-G Canada Ltd. has been awarded the Carleton University Library contract for Bibliographic Data Upgrade Services. The project will upgrade bibliographic data output from the CATSUP cataloguing system developed by the Carleton University Library. Approximately 900,000 monograph and serial bibliographic records will be upgraded and fully authority controlled using the A-G Canada resource databases.

Loughborough University Joins Growing Ex Libris Customer Base in the British Isles. March 12, 2001 - London, England. Loughborough University today signed a contract with Ex Libris (UK) for the replacement of the University Library`s current Talis system with the latest version of ALEPH 500. This agreement represents the latest adoption of ALEPH 500 by a major academic library in the British Isles, after recent orders from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the National University of Ireland, Galway.

epixtech’s Automation Systems to Use WebFeat to Search Databases. Provo, UT, March 8, 2001. epixtech, inc., the library automation company, and WebFeat, a company that helps its clients search databases, have joined forces to make searching for information much easier for library users throughout the world by integrating WebFeat’s database search capabilities and epixtech’s library automation systems. epixtech’s products include integrated library systems Dynix and Horizon Sunrise, both of which will be able to use the technology WebFeat has to offer.

Library.Solution from TLC/CARL Emerges as Automation Software of Choice for Libraries Throughout Louisiana. Inwood, WV, March 2, 2001. TLC/CARL Corporation - leading innovator in library automation and cataloging systems for more than a quarter century - today further demonstrated why its automated solutions are rapidly becoming the software of choice for libraries throughout the state of Louisiana

Sagebrush Corporation announces new Athena and Winnebago Spectrum packages. Minneapolis, MN, March 2, 2001. Sagebrush Corporation, a solutions provider for the library and education markets, announced new pricing packages for its Athena and Winnebago Spectrum library management systems.

Cooperating Libraries In Consortium Moving in the Right Direction with Millennium. March 1, 2001. Innovative Interfaces, a leader in library technology, announced that Cooperating Libraries In Consortium (CLIC), a consortium of eight academic libraries in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, will install the Web- and Java™-based Millennium library automation system.

Sara Randall Named Manager Of Endeavor Digital Library Product Management : Brings Library, Automation and Standards Experience to Digital Library Division. Des Plaines, IL, February 28, 2001. Endeavor Information Systems announced today Sara L. Randall has joined Endeavor Information Systems as the Manager of Digital Library Product Management. Randall's responsibilities include Endeavor's complete Digital Library solutions, including Citation Server and ENCompass, the digital library organization and management system.

Libraries Turn To Mandarin M3 For Automation Needs. Boca Raton, FL, February 6, 2001. A growing number of school, academic and public libraries worldwide are turning to the Mandarin M3 Library Automation System for their automation needs. Mandarin M3’s presence in the U.S. school market continues to expand as libraries discover M3’s assortment of practical features, including networkable software with unlimited site licensing, union catalogs and hosting services.

Keystone Integrates Library Automation with Warehouse Materials Management. February, 2001. Keystone Systems, Inc. is proud to announce that it has successfully integrated its KLAS (Keystone Library Automation System) software with a state-of-the-art computer-controlled warehouse storage and retrieval system manufactured by Diamond Phoenix. The KLAS Carousel Storage interface allows quick, easy and accurate pulling of materials for library patrons. It also speeds the return to storage when items are checked back in. The first library to implement this interface was the New Mexico Talking Book Library in Santa Fe, NM.

Data Research Associates Announces First Quarter Results. St. Louis, MO, January 18, 2001. Data Research Associates, Inc. announced today that revenues for its first quarter of fiscal 2001, ended December 31, 2000, were $5.7 million, compared with $6.5 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2000. The company reported a loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 of $205,000, or four cents per share basic and diluted, compared with earnings of $206,000, or four cents per share basic and diluted, for the same period in fiscal 2000.

epixtech Announces Open Source Licensing Plans for NISO CIP "Engine". Provo, UT. January 15, 2001. epixtech, Inc. is announcing today its plans to offer Open Source licensing for its software to implement the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP). This will eliminate the need for vendors to write the basic software that creates and handles the protocol’s messaging. By using this piece, vendors will be able to focus their development efforts on building the appropriate responses to the messages into their circulation, resource sharing systems and other systems.

Data Research Director Resigns. St. Louis, MO, January 8, 2001. Data Research Associates, Inc. announced today that Carole Cotton has resigned from the company's Board of Directors effective January 8.

BIBLIOMONDO - THE WORLD’S eLIBRARY NETWORK - New Company Launched After Best-Seller Acquires ALS International. December 26th, 2000. London, Paris, Cologne, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Montreal - BiblioMondo - the World’s eLibrary NetworkTM (www.BiblioMondo.com) was launched today after leading software company Best-Seller acquired the European software company ALS International Inc and renamed the company to BiblioMondo Inc.

COMPanion Releases Feature-Rich Alexandria v.5.4.2.   Salt Lake City, UT, December 4, 2000. COMPanion Corporation announced today the release of Alexandria v5.4.2. v5.4.2’s features follow Alexandria’s power of simplicity approach to library automation solutions.

CASPR Expands into India, signs Marketing Agreement with Onward Education. November 1, 2000. In order to bring best library automation solutions to libraries worldwide, CASPR has signed an agreement with Onward Education Pvt. Ltd headquarters in India.

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