"Each fall YBP publishes a report on price and output for new books published during our prior fiscal year. The data encompasses all new titles treated on the Approval Plan programs of YBP and of Lindsay & Croft, YBP's division in the United Kingdom, two offices which regularly profile, with book-in-hand, well over 65,000 distinct new titles annually. Since our Approval Plan programs are expressly designed to serve academic libraries, our data, which we have reported in a consistent way for over a dozen years, is a useful index to English-language publishing trends for scholarly, professional, and scientific books."

Library-oriented social bookmarking and rating tool (commercial product from Springshare)

Catalog interface including tagging (commercial product from Innovative Interfaces)

Catalog interface including tagging (commercial product from Ex Libris)

Registry of individuals (and a few companies) who do contract cataloging

"The CoLibri System is an innovative internationally patented book protection system. With CoLibri, you can quickly and easily apply a special transparent, custom fitted durable and protective covering to your books."

"Swets is the world's leading subscription services company."

"EBSCO is the worldwide leader in subscription access and management solutions."

"The ALCTS Acquisition Section's Publications Committee is pleased to announce that its Foreign Book Dealers' Directory is now available as a single, searchable Web publication. Most recently available as three distinct Web sites, the information has been combined into a single file, with access points by vendor name and country (or countries) whose materials each vendor can supply. To replicate the three previous regional versions, there are also lists by region that can be accessed by either the "point and click" world map on the home page, or by a pull-down menu. The original three regions, Eastern Europe-Soviet Union, Asia-Pacific, and Africa-Middle East, are now six regions: Eastern Europe, Central Eurasia, Asia, The Pacific, Africa, and Middle East."

 

Marshall Breeding's visual guide to the history of of ILS vendors and mergers/acquisitions

ELUNA is now the user group for all Ex Libris products, including SFX, Verde and now Voyager (replacing EndUser)

"provider of books and supporting collection management and technical services"

"NISO's Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group has posted its first public draft best practices document on its Web site. This document, "The SERU Approach to E-Resource Subscriptions: Framework for Development and Use of SERU," presents a shared set of understandings to which publishers and libraries can point when negotiating the sale of electronic content. The framework offers publishers and libraries a solution to the often-burdensome process of bilateral negotiation of a formal license agreement by allowing the sale of e-resources without licenses if both parties feel their perception of risk has been adequately addressed by current law and developing norms of behavior."

Verde, the Ex Libris electronic management system

SFX, the link server from Ex Libris, delivers powerful linking services in the scholarly information environment. SFX is also a key component in the management of electronic resources in a library.

Ex Libris Users North America (ELUNA) conference, including SFX and Verde

This is great!  Now, if only they will listen...

The ACIG Midwinter 2007 presentations includes: Authority Control Vendors--Twenty Questions

Representatives from three MARCIVE, LTI, and Backstage described the services by responding to a common list of questions and further questions from the audience. These speakers were:

• Mary Mastraccio, Cataloging & Authorities Librarian, MARCIVE, Inc.
• Marsha Hunt, Database Services Librarian, Library Technologies, Inc.
• John Reese, Product Manager, Authority Control Team, Backstage Library Works

 

 

New 'tool' predidts the next library system mergers and product developments