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Ameritech, See epixtech inc.

Auto-Graphics, 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.

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Best Seller, 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.

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CARL, CARL Corporation Acquired by The Library Corporation. July 3, 2000.

The Library Corporation is pleased to announce a merger with The CARL Corporation, a leading developer of visionary, technologically advanced solutions for all types of libraries. Ward Shaw, CARL's Chairman, and Annette Bakhtiar, The Library Corporation's CEO, believe the companies to be a very good fit, with the same mission and goals to provide the best possible service to libraries. Both companies, CARL and The Library Corporation, will retain their identities as companies dedicated to solely serving the library community, with not only outstanding customer support, but advanced technological solutions.

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CASPR, 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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COMPanion Corp. COMPanion Delivers Alexandria Library Automation for MAC OS X. Salt Lake City, UT, March 23, 2001

COMPanion Corporation announced today that they will deliver a carbonized version of Alexandria® for Mac OS X, so that any Mac OS can take advantage of Alexandria¹s full set of features. The carbonized version of Alexandria is currently in beta and will be released in Spring 2001. Alexandria users running on Mac OS X will enjoy its groundbreaking enhancements including Aqua interface, a robust protected memory architecture, pre-emptive multi-tasking, and faster standards based networking. Alexandria¹s beta for OS X demonstrates COMPanion¹s continuing commitment to the Macintosh platform.

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Cuadra Associates, 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, including word-processed documents, e-mail and e-mail attachments, files produced in other commonly used desktop applications, materials scanned or acquired on the web, and other information or notes about people, products, events, and other non-electronic items

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DRA, 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.

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Endeavor, 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.

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EOSI, EOS International Announces New Version 3.0 Of Its Q Series Library Information System : Features Z39.50 Version 3.0 Compliance and New User Security Enhancements. Carlsbad, CA, July 7, 2000.

Electronic Online Systems (EOS) International announces the release of Version 3.0 of its Q Series library information management and access system. Q Series Version 3.0 supports Z39.50, an industry standard, which allows dissimilar library automation systems to share information.

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epixtech inc., 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.

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Ex Libris, 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.

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Gaylord, 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. 

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Geac, 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.

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Inmagic, 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.

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Innovative Interfaces, 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.

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Keystone Systems, 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.

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The Library Corporation, Library.Solution from TLC/CARL Emerges as Automation Software of Choice for Libraries Throughout Louisiana. Inwood, WV, March 02, 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.

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Open Text, Open Text Introduces Livelink 9 : The newest version of Open Text’s Livelink 9 is the foundation for collaborative commerce solutions. San Antonio, TX, October 30, 2000.

Open Text Corporation, a worldwide leader of collaborative commerce software for e-business, today introduced Livelink 9 at its annual users’ conference, LiveLinkUp 2000. As the foundation for Open Text’s strategy to support collaborative commerce applications, Livelink 9 builds on the strengths that have already made it the leading Web-based collaborative software product. Livelink 9 will be made available to all of Open Text’s more than four million users world-wide.

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Sagebrush Technologies, 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.

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SIMA, SIMA, Inc. Announces SIMAnet. Northern Virginia, November 1999.

SIMA, Inc., a leader in library technology, announced its Web-based SIMAnet system for library information management. Using SIMAnet, librarians can run SIMA, Inc.'s highly successful library-catalog, serials/acquisitions and interlibrary-loan programs via the Internet. Perhaps the most important advantage of SIMAnet is being able to run application programs without having to install and maintain those programs in-house! SIMAnet users are always using the very latest version of the programs (no in-house updates required).

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SIRS, 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.

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SIRSI, 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."

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Talis Information Ltd. University of Sussex Installs Talis Library System with new Reading List capability. October 2000.

The University of Sussex went live at the beginning of this term with its new Talis Library System. An important feature is the powerful new Reading List management facility, which allows students to search for reading lists based on their course, tutor or study module.

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Winnebago, See Sagebrush.

Additional resources for press releases:

Library Journal Digital InfoTech

Biblio-Tech Review

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