Blog 2017

The Summon service is chock full of features and functionality that make discovering resources across a library's collection easy and intuitive. But which features are having the most impact for library users at University of Miami and Western Michigan University?

Two librarians sharing their thoughts with us about how the Summon service is helping to expose their digital and special collections. Check out this video to hear about how discovery is increasing visibility of this unique and valuable content at the University of Miami and the University of South Australia.

With the recent agreement to index The Digital Library of Georgia's collection, users of the Summon® service will soon be able to discover resources in this vast collection of digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, architectural drawings, audio, video, and other resources.

Collection development, analytics and knowledgebase workflows surfaced as hot topics for discussion at the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Serials Solutions Users Group Meeting, held June 14 at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

Pam’s goal for Serials Solutions is simple—support libraries around the world as they move toward discovery across the breadth of their collections and total library workflow management

“If you’re doing serious research, then you need an academic website,” says Chris Dames, dean of libraries at the University of Missouri—St. Louis." Dames is bringing in Summon and also making sure that every inch of the library is wireless and adding a coffee service so students can study in caffeinated peace.

What one thing would Stephen Parnell from the University of South Australia and Scott Garrison, formerly of Western Michigan University and currently at Ferris State University, share with libraries considering the Summon service? Hear it from their own lips in this video.

Since June 6, 2012 our team has created over 17,000 new authority title records for e-books and added additional normalizers for over 306,000 e-book holdings.

How did ProQuest celebrate the launch of the digitized version of Queen Victoria's personal journals?

Serials Solutions® has reached agreement to index the LibriVox collection of free audiobooks for discovery in the Summon® service.