Blog 2017

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.

It’s very important that we understand exactly what pain libraries are experiencing with their current technology. And, as we develop Intota, our new web-scale collection management solution, we also need to understand the primary drivers for migration to a new system.

Following is a list of new developments that improve the Summon® service, the Serials Solutions Client Center, 360 Resource Manager, 360 Counter and 360 Link.

Meet Jim Miesse, Director of Product Management for Intota.

Birmingham City University Library eLibrary team is keeping their blog readers up to date on progress with posts about their research, planning and development of training materials as they introduce the Summon® service.

One of our staff members has a “local” library in her very own neighborhood. Collection development at Jack’s Library is all patron driven acquisition, discovery is a short walk down the block and circulation is simply a steno pad.