Blog 2017

n 2009, a team of volunteers at ProQuest responded to the American Library Association’s national call for a “Summer of Service” with a volunteer program to support local libraries.

Join us at the 2012 Charleston Conference and attend the session “Getting Your ERM Affairs in Order” to look at some specific workflows and how they are handled today without ERM, where ERM brings efficiency, and where there are gaps.

A review of Access 2012, held in downtown Montreal, and filled with great talks on a wide range of topics, from the future of the book, to the future of the library space, to the future of plastic fabrication.

What are libraries looking for in an ILS? In our recent survey, respondents rated ease of use the most important factor. Serials Solutions Intota solves this problem on a fundamental level.

ProQuest is the proud sponsor of the ACRL 2013 Conference Support Staff Scholarship which will provide eight library professionals the opportunity to attend this premier industry event. Candidate applications are due on Friday, November 9, 2012.

Serials Solutions and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) worked together to improve access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon® web-scale discovery service.

More than 80 librarians and a handful of discovery service vendors met in Houston for “ReDiscover Discovery” the 2nd annual Discovery Day Camp hosted by the University of Houston, a Summon customer.

Utilizing cloud services in libraries provides numerous advantages including the ability to provide real-time updates, add capacity, and eliminate locally deployed hardware and software.

Find out more about Mark Foong, Director of Software Engineering for Serials Solutions.

JISC Collections and Serials Solutions are employing the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format to facilitate the exchange of data between their respective systems. Through this collaboration, licenses will be added to 360 Resource Manager, marking the first time JISC Collections’ licenses have been included in an ERM service.