Blog 2017

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.

“Summon will help all who use it become wise…” so sayeth the Queen in a short animated video created by the University of Missouri – St. Louis Libraries.

With quarterly releases for 360 Ulrichs services releases enhancements every quarter, and the Summon® service releases enhancements every three weeks, you get the latest technology tools.

Serials Solutions new product Intota™ is featured in this innovation award announcement from ProQuest.

If you just happen to be in Kamloops, British Columbia, you may want to stop by Thomson Rivers University to ‘meet’ their new search interface! Their Summon Launch & Open House party happened yesterday.

With an expanded agreement with publisher Schattauer GmbH, Serials Solutions continues its commitment to add to the German-language resources discoverable through the Summon service. All of Schattauer’s 22 scholarly journals devoted to medical fields will now be indexed in the Summon discovery service.

Clients get the latest news about knowledge updates and database changes as well as newly added providers and databases in our Support Center.

Find out more about Gary Samson, our Director of Software Engineering for Intota™.

Thanks to new agreements with three publishers of scholarly open access journal and book content, libraries using the Summon service from Serials Solutions can offer researchers more access to freely available resources outside of their own collections.

Each opportunity to talk with librarians has reinforced the notion that each library has different management needs, is at a different stage of evaluating management services, and is embracing change at some level. The single, consistent element across each conversation is that libraries recognize the need to start somewhere, start soon, and prepare for future management services that are more mature and robust.