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Information Today May 15, 2008 |
Ex Libris Announces the Release of Primo Version 2.0 Version 2.0 offers enhanced searching capabilities, including the ability to search in very large collections; improved usability and accessibility of the user interface; and easier system configuration and customization. |
Information Today May 6, 2010 |
Ex Libris Group Announces Primo Version 3.0 Ex Libris Group announced the general release of version 3.0 of the Primo discovery and delivery solution. |
Information Today May 7, 2007 |
Ex Libris Announces Availability of Primo Ex Libris Group announced that its Primo unified solution for the discovery and delivery of library resources, regardless of format and location, is now in general release. |
Information Today June 21, 2012 Barbara Quint |
Primo Upgrade From Ex Libris Builds on Customization Strengths According to one expert, Primo has particular appeal to academic and research libraries in part due to the way its "toolkit" approach allows librarians to customize the service to their particular collections and clienteles. |
Information Today January 21, 2010 |
Ex Libris Announces the Beta Launch of Primo Central When searching in their institution's Primo interface, users in partner libraries will have seamless access to the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly econtent. Primo Central is planned for general release in mid-2010. |
Information Today March 18, 2013 |
Ex Libris Primo Central to Search SwetsWise Online Content Ex Libris Group, a library automation vendor, announced that mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content ejournal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials. |
Information Today October 2, 2014 |
ProQuest's Collections Are Now Discoverable Through Primo Ex Libris Group agreed to index 200-plus ProQuest databases -- such as ProQuest Central and ABI/INFORM -- in the Primo Central Index so they can be found via the Primo discovery service. |
Information Today June 3, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today April 5, 2012 |
Ex Libris' Primo Central Adds 78 A&I Sources Ex Libris Ltd., provider of library automation solutions, announced that RMIT Publishing has made additional scholarly content from its diverse collections searchable in the Primo Central Index. |
Information Today |
Springer and Ex Libris Partner to Offer Content via Primo Central Springer, a premier global scientific publisher, is the latest to join the rapidly expanding group of publishers and aggregators who have chosen to make their content accessible to library users via Primo Central |
Information Today April 1, 2013 Barbara Quint |
Serials Solutions' Summon 2.0 Coming in June One of the most popular discovery engines -- Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company -- should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version. |
Information Today June 27, 2011 |
Elsevier and Ex Libris Group Announce Collaboration Elsevier and Ex Libris Group announced their collaboration to make the full text of SciVerse ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks searchable in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index. |
Information Today June 7, 2010 |
Accessible Archives Content to be Available Via Primo Central The compilations from Accessible Archives provide in-depth access to primary materials related to American history, such as colonial newspapers, Civil War books and newspapers, African American newspapers, county histories, and Godey's Lady's Book magazine. |
Information Today February 9, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
Ex Libris Advances Its Open Platform Strategy A setting in which open interfaces are readily available enables the library community to integrate Ex Libris components with other software elements more easily. |
Searcher June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light? |
Information Today October 13, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest to Acquire Ex Libris Group In a move that caught most of the library world by surprise, on Oct. 6, 2015, ProQuest announced its intention to acquire Israel-based Ex Libris Group from private equity company Golden Gate Capital. |
Information Today May 6, 2014 Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Opens Masses of Content to Third-Party Discovery Services EBSCO Information Services, a leading supplier of aggregated content to libraries, has at last opened up its metadata and, if contractually possible, most of its full-text content to outside discovery services. |
Information Today November 19, 2013 |
Ex Libris Group Collaborates on E-Resource Management Ex Libris Group partnered with Jisc to enhance e-resource management for U.K. libraries. |
Information Today October 3, 2011 |
Ex Libris Primo Central Index to Cover BNA and MLA Collections A publisher of information and analysis products for professionals in business and government, BNA will make available to the Primo Central Index over 90 journal titles aimed at legal practitioners and law students. |
Information Today November 8, 2012 |
Ex Libris Releases Voyager 8.2 The new version of Voyager was tested by numerous institutions. Their feedback contributed to refining the integrated library system software. |
Information Today July 20, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Builds on EBSCOhost Platform With New Search Services Providing a single point of access to a broad range of library materials seems to be emerging as the Holy Grail of the library world. |
Information Today May 3, 2010 |
Gale Databases Now Directly Accessible Via Ex Libris' Primo Central The flagship full-text periodical databases Academic OneFile and General OneFile, together with the Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Sabin America resources, are now available via Primo Central. |
Information Today June 9, 2011 |
Credo Reference and Ex Libris Agree to Partnership Content from Credo's General Reference, Publisher, and Subject Collections will now be accessible through the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly content. |
Information Today January 18, 2011 Marshall Breeding |
Library Automation News at ALA Midwinter Developments seen at the conference boil down into themes of a shift toward cloud computing, increasing interest in and development in discovery services, and emerging products that embrace new models of library automation. |
Information Today November 19, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
Golden Gate Capital Acquires Ex Libris Group Ex Libris should welcome the deeper pockets of Golden Gate Capital, a much larger company, to continue its developments to help libraries and enhance the company's bottom line. |
Information Today May 1, 2014 |
Ex Libris Developer Network Fosters Experimentation Ex Libris Group launched the Ex Libris Developer Network, which gives developers and IT professionals an open environment to experiment with applications and extensions to Ex Libris solutions. |
Information Today January 29, 2009 |
Ex Libris Announces bX Web 2.0 Usage-Based Scholarly Recommendation Services Ex Libris bX, a first-of-its-kind service, will provide library users with article-level recommendations based on collective usage data amassed from research communities around the world. |
Information Today March 26, 2012 |
Ex Libris and Bibliotheca Collaborate to Provide RFID Solutions to Libraries The agreement enables Ex Libris to provide seamless integration between Ex Libris solutions and Bibliotheca's circulation, security, and material-handling products. |
Information Today March 27, 2014 |
Ex Libris Group Offers Voyager Updates Ex Libris Group released version 9 of its Voyager ILS, which includes more than 80 enhancements. Many of the changes were in response to suggestions from the product's user community. |
Information Today September 3, 2015 |
Gale Announces Academic Library Survey Results The survey on academic libraries shows that closer collaboration between librarians and faculty members is necessary for improved communication between the two groups. |
Information Today August 12, 2010 |
Ex Libris Announces Econtent Collaboration with Thomson Reuters Ex Libris Group announced that Thomson Reuters is to make its important collections directly accessible to Web of Knowledge subscribers via the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly econtent. |
Information Today June 12, 2014 |
Mosio Widget Offers Options for Mobile Librarianship The OmniWidget enables librarians to embed text, chat, and email help desk services in Facebook, discovery services, learning management systems, and other platforms. |
Information Today November 17, 2011 Marshall Breeding |
NISO Launches Open Discovery Initiative Momentum has been building for a new genre of discovery services based on centralized indexes. |
Information Today August 7, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest HarperCollins Publishers Launches Browse Inside... Getty Images Announces "Rights-Ready" Licensing Model... Private Equity Fund to Acquire Ex Libris... etc. |
Information Today September 4, 2007 |
Call for Librarians to "Slam the Boards" on Sept. 10 To raise library services awareness, librarians are being urged to "slam the boards," such as Yahoo! Answers, Amazon's Askville, The Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others -- answering as many questions as they can using authoritative sources. |
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do? |
Searcher March 2001 Barbara Quint |
On Myths: A Letter to Non-Subscribers As for that misty mystical myth of some Golden Age of Libraries where all truth was handmade and hand delivered and all patrons were gratefully enriched by the blessed hands of librarians scattering largesse throughout the land...pull the other one, I'm starting to walk funny... |
Searcher September 2011 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Have I Got a Deal for You? As volatile changes continue to rock the publishing world, librarians dealing with collection purchasing decisions are buffeted by new content delivery modes (ebooks are the latest storm center) and shifting revenue models. |
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Searcher January 2002 Barbara Quint |
Now or Never! This is the best chance librarians will ever have to break the chains that have bound them and their budgets. No one knows better than the wise information professional how inevitable the final victory of the Web is... |