Yet another commentary on OCLC, MSU, etc.

And yet another commentary on OCLC

Another commenatary on OCLC & SkyRiver

Competitor to OCLC for cataloging services

* Web-based cataloging client
* Supports copy & original cataloging
* Search millions of freely licensed records
* Share your records with other libraries

"EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution's information resources, and provides access via a single search box. Metadata is harvested from both internal (library) and external (vendors) sources creating a pre-indexed service of unprecedented size and speed. The service is indexed directly on EBSCO servers allowing for exceptionally fast search response times. Users are also able to leverage the familiar powerful features of the EBSCOhost user experience. EDS provides everything the researcher needs in one place-a single interface for discovery of a library's entire collection and powerful features that heighten the research experience. "

"Electronic Scriptorium, Ltd., provides a full line of metadata management services to world class businesses and institutions. We offer metadata modeling, taxonomy and ontology design, controlled vocabulary services and descriptive cataloging for digital assets. Let's talk about how to improve your enterprise-wide metadata model or strategies for increasing ROI from digital assets."

Commentary on the Westlaw marketing campaign and other vendors who try to double-dip by selling directly to users things that they already have access to through the library's paid subscription. 

"content@ingram is Ingram Data Services' richest and most comprehensive data set containing detailed bibliographic, metadata, and stocking information on all titles carried by Ingram. Ingram is proud of the unequalled integrity and breadth of product you will find in this database."

 

"Images - images@ingram encompasses more than 1.7 million full-color cover images that add instant visual appeal and interest to your website or in-store title reference system."

"Everything behind a single searchbox.

Introducing the Summon^TM service, the revolutionary new unified discovery service from Serials Solutions. The Summon^TM unified discovery service allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content. It goes beyond federated search, beyond next-generation catalogs to create an all-new service for libraries. Through one simple search, it provides instant access to the breadth of authoritative content that's the hallmark of great libraries - digital and print, audio and video, single articles to entire e-journals, and every format in between. No need to broadcast searches to other databases - it provides one search box for a researcher to enter any terms they want and quickly get credible results in one relevancy ranked-list."

 

"New in 2008, the Mass Digitization Collaborative offers PALINET members the capability to contribute important historical and archival materials for digitization as part of our regional digital collection. Participation in the Collaborative makes digitization affordable and easy for PALINET members. PALINET staff facilitate the process by developing a collaborative collection development policy, procedures, standards, and workflows and by providing support services to project participants."

New Title Reports

YBP compiles reports each fiscal year showing data for all books we treated on our approval plan program. Our reports, which are widely used by academic librarians in their budgeting and planning, show new title output and price data broken down by subject and by publisher, with overall totals.

 

reports, records, etc.

Although the focus of this article is on public libraries, it includes many vendors for foreign language publications

"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

LeadDog creates and maintains GIS street and road maps for Iraq, the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America.  We offer GIS and postcode maps for virtually every country in the world.