Civica News

Wednesday Jun 19, 2013

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May 14, 2013. South Lanarkshire Council selects Civica to transform library services. South Lanarkshire Council, which is responsible for providing IT services to school libraries and to South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Ltd has, following a mini-competition under a national framework agreement, chosen Civica, a market leader in specialist systems and business process services that help organisations transform the way they work, to host the Spydus library management system across 17 School Libraries and 25 Public Libraries. The new three year contract will transform each library’s internal processes, whilst making it more convenient for citizens and staff to access resources in person and online. <<more>>

May 8, 2013. Omers acquires Civica. OMERS Private Equity, the private equity investment arm of the OMERS pension plan, has completed the purchase of Civica, a market leader in specialist systems and business process services, from 3i Group plc and funds managed by 3i for an enterprise value of £390 million. <<more>>

November 15, 2012. Politeknik Brunei chooses Spydus LMS and RFID. Civica South East Asia was recently pleased to be awarded the contract to provide Spydus LMS and Civica RFID solution to Brunei Polytechnic library. The training of library staff has commenced and go live is expected at the end of December, before the new term starts in January 2013. <<more>>

October 30, 2012. Cockburn Libraries live on Managed Service. Cockburn Libraries in coastal Western Australia moved to a Spydus Managed Service in November this year. An active Spydus customer for over a decade, the Council decided to move from a standalone Spydus service to Managed Service. <<more>>

September 24, 2012. Civica to implement new library systems at National Library Board in Singapore. Civica South East Asia is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a project to upgrade the Library Management System by the National Library Board. <<more>>

May 3, 2012. Roebourne Shire goes live on Spydus. Roebourne Shire in the Pilbara region of Western Australia went live with Spydus this week and is Civica's first managed services customer in Western Australia. Roebourne came from a joint-use library with Pilbara TAFE. <<more>>

March 21, 2012. Libraries on the Go - Sorcer Mobile now on Android. Civica Library and Learning, a leading provider of library systems and services, is proud to announce its latest addition to the smartphone family – Sorcer Mobile for Android devices. With the iSpydus already an application on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch since 2010, Android users can now have their libraries at their fingertips. <<more>>

December 19, 2011. Civica Taiwan awarded Tainan Municipal Library project. Civica Taiwan was awarded the Tainan Municipal Library project. With about 40 branches, 570,000 patrons, and 500,000 Bibs, the Tainan Municipal Library will be the next significant Spydus8 client in the public library field, for Civica Taiwan. Together with the account from the Library of Pingtung County Cultural Centre (37 branches, 250,000 patrons, and 320,000 Bibs), Civica Taiwan will play an increasingly prominent role in the field. <<more>>

November 16, 2011. 30 Years of Partnership with The Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE. Civica celebrated a 30-year relationship with its longest continuous Spydus customer. The Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), formerly known as Preston Technical College became a Civica (AWA in 1981) customer in October 1981. <<more>>

January 13, 2010. Niagara University to implement Spydus from Civica/CMI. Civica announced today Niagara University has selected the Spydus Integrated Library System. The system will replace the existing SirsiDynix Horizon System. <<more>>

August 10, 2009. Hutchinson Community College selects Spydus Integrated Library System. The John F. Kennedy Library at Hutchinson Community College and Area Vocational School, and Civica/CMI, a world leader in providing library automation technology, announced that Hutchinson Community College has selected the Spydus Integrated Library System (ILS). The system will replace the existing SirsiDynix Unicorn System. <<more>>

February 20, 2009. Civica/CMI annouces the recruitment of Jeanne Spala . Civica/CMI, a leading worldwide provider of library automation technology, announced Jeanne Spala has joined Civica/CMI in a Senior Consultant role. <<more>>

July 29, 2008. Civica selected for Singapore FutureSchools. A group led by Civica has been chosen to develop innovative learning technology for one of the five ‘FutureSchools’ in Singapore, in a $S80 million ($A61.9 million) four-year project. <<more>>

April 29, 2008. UK’s largest library authority to enhance reader services for over 1.3 million people with Civica . Civica is to provide Kent Libraries, the UK’s largest library authority, with new library management systems in a contract valued at £1.6 million over the next five years. The programme will see Kent join the South East Library Management System consortium, in order to achieve enhanced reader services for over 1.3 million people as well as procurement savings. <<more>>

February 12, 2008. Civica extends Library solutions into global learning and education sector. Civica Pty Ltd has announced that it is extending the scope of its international library solutions business into the broader education sector and will re-name the business Library and Learning. <<more>>

February 6, 2008. Three South Australian public libraries sign for Civica’s managed services consortium . Three South Australian public libraries have signed up for Civica’s SA Regional Libraries Consortium, to enjoy the benefits of a managed service using a shared database based on the Spydus software. <<more>>

December 21, 2007. CMI opens sales and support office for Spydus library systems in North America in line with global expansion. Creative Microsystems (CMI), a Civica, plc, owned company, and one of North America's most experienced providers of consulting, software and services for the public sector, plans to transform the efficiency and service delivery of North American libraries with the introduction of the widely used Spydus library automation system into the United States. <<more>>

November 25, 2007. Three South Australian public libraries sign for Civica's managed services consortium. Three South Australian public libraries have signed up for Civica's SA Regional Libraries Consortium, to enjoy the benefits of a managed service using a shared database based on the Spydus software. <<more>>

August 31, 2007. Consortium approach plus Civica’s managed services give SA libraries cost-effective solution . Three relatively small library services in South Australia have discovered the most efficient and cost-effective way to run their computerised library management systems. First, the library services at The Barossa Council, Clare & Gilbert Valleys Council, and Light Regional Council formed the LINK Consortium to share their costs. Then they began a careful search for the most suitable solution for their 13 libraries. Finally, in mid-2006, they went live with Civica’s managed services model, based on the Spydus library management system, which runs their computing operations seamlessly from Melbourne while freeing library staff to look after their customers. <<more>>

July 12, 2007. Liverpool City Library chooses Civica for new tech partnership. Liverpool City Library selected Spydus from Civica to accommodate its wide-ranging needs. <<more>>

June 9, 2007. Maroochy Shire Library’s verdict on Civica’s managed services: ‘Absolutely fabulous!’ . Last year Maroochy Libraries adopted a managed services approach for delivery of their library management systems to overcome technical limitations. Today librarians remain enthusiastic about the day-to-day benefits. <<more>>

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Civica

565 Bourke St
Melbourne, 3000
Australia
Phone: :+61-3-8676-4400
Fax: + 61-3-8676-4444
Web site: http://www.civica.co.uk/library-and-learning
Email: sales@civica.com.au

Executives

Peter Anderson -- Managing Director, International
Philip Barr -- General Manager, Library Solutions
Simon Downing -- Chief Executive
Simon Parkes -- Director, Civica Library & Learning, US and UK

Company Ownership

Civica is owned by 3i Investments

Library automation systems

Civica offers the following Integrated Library Systems:

Spydus (146 libraries, 1229 facilities in lib-web-cats)
Public libraries: 100
Academic libraries: 40
School libraries: 1
43 libraries have migrated away from this system.

A total of 1229 library facilities included in lib-web-cats use an ILS provided by Civica.

Corporate Chronology

May 7, 2013	OMERS Private Equity acquires Civica from 3i Group for £390 million. OMERS Private Equity, the private equity investment arm of the OMERS pension plan, has completed the purchase of Civica, a market leader in specialist systems and business process services, from 3i Group plc and funds managed by 3i for an enterprise value of £390 million.
Mar 28, 2008	Civica acquired by 3i Investments. Privite equity firm 3i Investments, through a new company Cornwall Bidco begin the process of acquiring all shares of Civica. Company valued £190.0 million, 270 pence per share.
Mar 1, 2004	Civica Plc. flotation on the AIM stock exchange. Civica is raising £15 million of new money from the offer and is placing £30 million on behalf of existing shareholders. On admission, the Group will be valued at approximately £79.2 million.
May 13, 2002	Civica formed by Sanderson. Sanderson, a leading global provider of software and services, announces it has integrated its public sector and complementary businesses into a single organisation under the brand name Civica.
2002	Sanderson restructures as Civica.
1999	URICA version 6 renamed to Spydus.
Nov 10, 1994	General Automation, Inc. sells its 51% interest in SGA to Sanderson Technologies, Ltd..
1991	URICA ported from Pick to Unix.
Sep 1989	General Automation, Inc. and Sanderson Electronics PLC spin off new company named SGA Pacific Limited. At formation, the General Automation held 29% of the outstanding stock of SGA; Sanderson owned 49%; and SGA management holding 22%.
Sep 1989	SGA Pacific Limited acquires AWA Limited.
1985	Sanderson begins marketing URICA in Asia.
1979	AWA software re-develops URICA for the University of Tasmania. Considerable development needed to rework URICA as originally created in South Africa for the University of Tasmania. Dick Goodram and David Fraser worked with AMA to create an Australian version of the system, named URICA.26. based on Pick. By the 1980’s it was the best selling system in Australia.
1976	AWA Computers becomes the first company to introduce Pick-based computers into Australia.

Key Articles from Library Technology Guides

The following are a sample of articles related to the major events in the corporate history of Civica, or you can view all articles related to the company from Library Technology Guides.

Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (June 2008). Civica Transitions to Private Equity

Civica, a large software and services company that includes a library division offering the Spydus automation system, has undergone a business transition where it changes from a publicly traded company on the London-based AIM exchange to a private company, primarily owned by 3i Investors, a major private equity firm. 3i is a very large private equity firm with £5.6 billion (approximately $11 billion) in market capitalization.

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