Blog 2017

The goal of Intota and the new Knowledgebase is to make library staff more productive, so that the library staff can use their talents and creativity to focus on the new mission of the academic library. Libraries need to showcase their relevance in new ways.

Peter is the Manager of the Documentation and Training Team within Global Client Support Services. His team’s primary concern is providing great educational services to our clients on how to use our software.

Serials Solutions supported The South Dakota Library Association (SDLA) Annual Conference (October 3-5) and made it possible for Joe Raiola to attend as a keynote speaker. He brought the first amendment to life and discussed the most debated issues of freedom of speech in his workshop, “The Joy of Censorship.”

Serials Solutions® has announced the addition of Hyweb Technology content to the Summon® web-scale discovery service. Hyweb has more than 900 journals which represent 90% of Taiwanese journal published.

Content from Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, will be indexed in the Serials Solutions® Summon® discovery service.

Serials Solutions announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair content from AskZad, ciando GmbH, the European Patent Office (EPO) and Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA will be indexed in the Summon discovery service.

Be sure to check out the latest news about Serials Solutions Knowledgebase updates and database changes as well as newly added providers and databases in the Support Center.

In last week’s Intota post, we reported on a recent survey of libraries that exposed the shortcomings of their current ILS’s, and desires for a new system. One overriding concern is the desire for more unified workflows.

Serials Solutions announced its six development partners are actively using and providing feedback on the second iteration of Intota™.

Last week we welcomed Jeff Daniels, Head of Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services, of Grand Valley State University (GVSU), to our Seattle office where he addressed our entire staff about the integration of value of Serials Solutions services to the GVSU library.