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From our Managing Director

Welcome to the October 2008 edition of our newsletter. We enjoyed yet another interesting quarter; a number of our customers “went live” with their Vubis Smart system, we attended a number of conferences in various regions, and we had a variety of product sales to customers across the globe. More >>

Delivering Library Services with Vubis Smart in Educational Environments

Developed in partnership with two European universities, Vubis Smart - Infor’s integrated library system - provides libraries in educational environments with extensive functions that address both staff workflow and student requirements. Through a rich search environment, digital repository support and integration with Virtual Leaning Environments (VLEs), academic libraries offer their users seamless access to information regardless of format or source. More >>

A New Mobile Library Service for Children at Theek5

Theek5, a library network in the province of Brabant, the Netherlands, recently began offering a mobile library service to serve elementary schools in the area. The mobile service, known as the ‘bibliobus’, had been available to adult and juvenile borrowers in the past but will now serve children only. More >>

Vubis Smart at the University of Nairobi (UONBI), Kenya

With implementations across the globe, the Vubis Smart installation at the University of Nairobi in Kenya stands out as particularly noteworthy. The original Vubis system brought much needed automation to the university library, which sought to connect with other libraries, provide access to millions of journal articles and register its users in a central database. More >>

Customizing the Web OPAC at the Public Library of Breda
By Birgit Jacobs - Digital Library Innovation - Breda Public Library

In the recent past a library's Web OPAC and related web sites were entirely distinctive both in presentation and purpose. In the meantime, many libraries have changed this paradigm; the Web OPAC is no longer merely a tool to unlock the library’s collections, but is used increasingly to draw the attention of different users and groups to the wide array of library services and offerings. More >>

Impressions from IFLA

The 74th IFLA World Library and Information Congress was held in the Canadian city of Québec, a beautiful city that celebrated its 400th anniversary this year. Thousands of librarians and information professionals attended the conference from August 10-14 under the theme: "Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding." More >>

Syndetic Solutions Catalog Enrichment Now Available in UK and Ireland

Customers in the UK and Ireland can now purchase Syndetic Solutions catalog enrichment directly from Infor. Syndetic Solutions is the premier provider of specialized, quality bibliographic data to enhance library online catalogues. More >>