Ex Libris News
Wednesday May 16, 2012
All 606 Press Releases from Ex Libris
20 most recent items:
May 9, 2012. Ex Libris announces the launch of Rosetta 3.0. Ex Libris announced the release of version 3.0 of the Rosetta digital preservation system. <<more>>
May 8, 2012. California’s National University selects Alma and Primo from Ex Libris. Ex Libris has been selected by National University to provide next-generation library management and discovery services through the Alma unified resource-management system and the Primo unified discovery and delivery system. <<more>>
May 7, 2012. Ex Libris endorses global open metadata initiatives. Ex Libris announced that it will include the Harvard Library’s catalog records in the Ex Libris Alma Community Catalog, and Harvard’s Digital Access to Scholarship article repository in the Primo Central Index of scholarly content. Endorsing the recommendations of the Alma Community Zone advisory group, Ex Libris will make the content from the Harvard Library open and available to the growing international community of Ex Libris customers. <<more>>
May 2, 2012. The European Primo community expands across Europe. Ex Libris announced that numerous academic and research libraries in Europe have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution. In addition, several existing customers have supplemented their Primo offering with the Primo Central Index and the bX Recommender, while other institutions have expanded their successful Primo implementations. <<more>>
April 30, 2012. University of Utah selects Ex Libris Rosetta for long-term digital preservation. Ex Libris announced that the University of Utah has opted for Ex Libris Rosetta to preserve the school's extensive cultural heritage collections, which include newspapers and other historical textual documents, photographs, rare books, oral history interviews (including transcripts and audio), motion picture collections, and more. In addition to cultural heritage collections, Rosetta will enable the University of Utah to preserve faculty publications and research data. The J. Willard Marriott Library hosts the collections of institutions on campus and across the state as part of the Mountain West Digital Library. <<more>>
April 2, 2012. Ex Libris Primo Central index to cover more Informit content . Ex Libris announced that RMIT Publishing has made additional scholarly content from its diverse collections searchable in the Primo Central Index. Under the agreement, Ex Libris will index a further 78 abstract and indexing databases that cover agriculture, the arts, Asian studies, business, education, engineering, health, history, law, media, the sciences, the social sciences, and technology. <<more>>
March 28, 2012. Ex Libris Announces the Release of bX Hot Articles. Ex Libris announced the release of bX Hot Articles, a service that is part of the recently launched bX usage-based suite of services from Ex Libris. Updated monthly, Hot Articles identifies the 10 articles that researchers have selected the most in each discipline in recent weeks, as well as the 10 most popular articles overall. The service is free for noncommercial use. <<more>>
March 27, 2012. ODIN migrates to the Ex Libris Cloud by upgrading to AlephPlus . Ex Libris announced that the Online Dakota Information Network -— run by the North Dakota University System -- has moved its installation of the Aleph integrated library system into the Ex Libris cloud environment. At the same time, ODIN has selected cloud-based implementations of the Primo discovery and delivery solution and the SFX OpenURL link resolver. <<more>>
March 16, 2012. National Library of Russia selects Ex Libris Aleph. Ex Libris announced that the National Library of Russia, in St. Petersburg, has decided to adopt the Aleph integrated library system for the management of its vast print collections. Aleph will replace numerous locally developed systems that are currently used by the National Library. <<more>>
March 12, 2012. Ex Libris adds new bX Services based on scholarly usage data. Ex Libris announced the addition of three new services to the suite of bX usage-based services. Released in 2009, the first member of the bX suite—the bX Recommender—is deployed in over one thousand institutions worldwide. Using data-mining techniques to analyze scholarly usage data from multiple information systems, the bX technology identifies topics that are currently in the spotlight of academic discourse and assesses the popularity of specific publications. Data analyzed by bX also reveals subtle usage patterns and associations between articles and journals, themes, and authors. By providing analytics and trending information based on the usage patterns of many millions of users, bX services enable librarians to objectively evaluate both the electronic resources that they license and their institutions’ collection strategies. <<more>>
February 22, 2012. Ex Libris Primo Central index to include Cairn.info Content . Ex Libris announced that Cairn.info has joined the rapidly expanding group of information providers whose scholarly content is searchable in the Primo Central Index. <<more>>
February 16, 2012. The LOCKSS program and Ex Libris SFX provide access to archived electronic resources. Ex Libris announced the integration of the LOCKSS Program software with the SFX OpenURL link resolver. Based at Stanford University Libraries, the LOCKSS Program is an international community collaboration that archives copies of scholarly journals so that library users can continue to access licensed copies when the journals are not available directly from the publisher. Added as a target in SFX, the LOCKSS service retrieves licensed materials from the library’s own LOCKSS archive. Libraries that activate this target can offer uninterrupted access, through SFX context-sensitive links, to scholarly content that is securely archived in their own LOCKSS Box. <<more>>
February 14, 2012. Brigham Young University selects Ex Libris Rosetta. Ex Libris announced that Brigham Young University has selected the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. The first member of the Association of Research Libraries to adopt Rosetta, Brigham Young will implement Rosetta initially for the Harold B. Lee Library’s digital collections and will later expand the implementation to the digital assets of the university’s colleges and schools. <<more>>
February 8, 2012. Silesian University of Technology selects Ex Libris Discovery and Delivery Solutions . ALEPH Polska Ltd., the exclusive distributor of Ex Libris solutions in Poland, announced that the Silesian University of Technology has selected a suite of Ex Libris solutions to build a unified discovery service. Library users will enjoy an integrated experience that consists of the Primo discovery and delivery solution, the Primo Central Index of scholarly e content, the SFX OpenURL link resolver, and the bX article recommender. <<more>>
February 6, 2012. Ex Libris Alma is the next-gen library service of choice for academic libraries in Australia and New Zealand . Ex Libris welcomed two more universities to the Australia and New Zealand early-adopter program for the Alma library management service. The newest members are RMIT University, in Australia, and the University of Otago, in New Zealand. <<more>>
January 31, 2012. Japan's National Diet Library goes live with Aleph. Ex Libris announced that in early January, the National Diet Library—the national library of Japan—completed its transition from its legacy system to the Aleph integrated library system and switched to full production. The selection of the Aleph system followed an extensive process during which the NDL staff examined both local and international solutions and conducted an Aleph trial for eight months. The Aleph implementation project, which began in 2010, was one of the largest Aleph projects to date. For the first time, the various systems of NDL, including the former integrated library system, the Asian Language Materials catalog, and the ZASSHIKIJISAKUIN Japanese Periodicals Index, were merged into one system. In addition, the implementation had to accommodate the great size of the library collections (about 20 million bibliographic records and 40 million items); handle the Japanese language efficiently; support the unique workflows of the NDL; adapt to an advanced infrastructure; and integrate the system with technologies of other providers. Close collaboration with local system integrators was instrumental in accomplishing these tasks. <<more>>
January 25, 2012. Ex Libris Releases Aleph Version 21. Ex Libris announced that version 21 of the Aleph integrated library system has been released to the Aleph community of over 2,300 sites. Among the release’s 74 enhancements are numerous features that reduce the total cost of ownership, such as improving cash workflows and simplifying renewals of serial encumbrances. Other enhancements will provide an enhanced experience for end-users—for example, users may make borrowing requests for multiple items, view their request history, and view availability information by collection. <<more>>
January 20, 2012. Primo Central Index to provide full-text search in renowned HathiTrust collection . Ex Libris announced that a new agreement with HathiTrust will enable library users to carry out full-text searches of the HathiTrust collection via the Primo Central Index of scholarly e-content. Users are already able to search the collection’s metadata, which was previously indexed in Primo Central. <<more>>
January 19, 2012. Expert Advisory Group makes its recommendations for open data in Alma. Ex Libris announced that the international group of library experts who convened to advise Ex Libris on the Community Catalog of the Alma library management service has concluded the first phase of its work. Part of the Alma Community Zone, the Community Catalog comprises metadata records shared by libraries that are using the Alma library management service. The purpose of the Community Catalog is to streamline resource-management processes, including selection, acquisitions, cataloging, and fulfillment. The group's recommendations were governed by the principle that all records contributed to the Community Catalog should be open and that members should be able to share, copy, edit, and redistribute records that are linked to the library’s inventory. Owned jointly by the community, the Community Catalog will also enable libraries to contribute records to external systems, such as Ex Libris Primo, or other discovery environments. Alma’s early adopters and development partners had an opportunity to review the recommendations during the group’s deliberations. <<more>>
January 18, 2012. Ex Libris Primo community in North America continues to expand . Ex Libris announced that in recent months, numerous academic and research libraries in North America have selected the rich functionality of the Primo discovery and delivery solution, raising the number of Primo sites worldwide to over 900. <<more>>
January 17, 2012. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign selects Ex Libris Primo . Ex Libris announced that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library has selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution from Ex Libris. With this acquisition, the University Library joins a Primo community of 300 local and regional libraries in North America. <<more>>
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Ex Libris
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Executives
- Matti Shem Tov -- President and Chief Executive Officer
- Oded Scharfstein -- Chief Financial Officer
- Oren Beit-Arie -- Chief Strategy Officer
- Ziv BenZvi -- Vice President for Asia Pacific
- David Beychok -- Vice President, Discovery and Delivery Solutions
- Marc Daubach -- Corporate Vice President, General Manager for Europe
- Anat Kuper -- Corporate Vice President, Global Support
- Uri Livnat -- Vice President, Cloud Services
- Shlomo Sanders -- Chief Technology Officer
- Mark Triest -- President Ex Libris North America
- Bar Veinstein -- Vice President, Resource Management Solutions
- Sagit Halpern -- Chief Financial Officer, Ex Libris North America
Company Ownership
Ex Libris is owned by Leeds Equity, a private equity firm based in New York, NY.
Library automation systems
Ex Libris offers the following Integrated Library Systems:
- Aleph 500 (1180 libraries, 1582 facilities in lib-web-cats)
Public libraries: 433
Academic libraries: 522
School libraries: 26
50 libraries have migrated away from this system. - Voyager (963 libraries, 1394 facilities in lib-web-cats)
Public libraries: 4
Academic libraries: 705
School libraries: 2
140 libraries have migrated away from this system.
A total of 2976 library facilities included in lib-web-cats use an ILS provided by Ex Libris.
Ex Libris offers an OpenURL Link Resolver:
Corporate Chronology
| Feb 8, 2010 |
Ex Libris acquires Fujitsu Services A/S library division. |
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| Aug 5, 2008 |
Leeds Equity Partners acquires Ex Libris Group. |
| Nov 21, 2006 |
Francisco Partners acquires Endeavor Information Systems from Elsevier. |
| Jun 26, 2006 |
Francisco Partners acquires Ex Libris for $62 million. |
| Aug 2005 |
Azriel Morag retires from Ex Libris. |
| Apr 7, 2000 |
Endeavor Information Systems acquired by Elsevier. |
| Feb 2000 |
Ex Libris acquires rights to SFX from University of Gent . |
| Feb 1999 |
Endeavor employees gain full ownership of Endeavor Information Systems. |
| 1999 |
Walden Israel and Tamar Ventures invest in Ex Libris Group. |
| 1999 |
Ex Libris enters United States library automation market. |
| Jul 1997 |
Ex Libris acquires Dabis. |
| 1996 |
Company reorgainzed as Ex Libris group. |
| 1995 |
Yissum Aleph and Ex Libris, Ltd. merge into a single company. |
| Nov 1994 |
Endeavor Information Systems founded. |
| 1986 |
Ex Libris, Ltd. founded. |
| 1983 |
Aleph Yissum founded to commercialize ALEPH. |
| 1980 |
ALEPH software created at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
Key Articles from Library Technology Guides
The following are a sample of articles related to the major events in the corporate history of Ex Libris, or you can view all articles related to the company from Library Technology Guides.
(January 6, 2011). Ex Libris announces the cloud-based Alma Library Management Service
Ex Libris announced that the company’s next-generation library management solution has been named Ex Libris Alma. Harnessing the Unified Resource Management (URM) framework, Alma supports the entire range of library operations—selection, acquisition, metadata management, digitization, and fulfillment—for all library materials, regardless of their format or location. The Ex Libris Alma solution accelerates libraries' move toward next-generation services by consolidating, optimizing, and extending library workflows. Alma consolidates the disparate systems used by today’s libraries to manage print, electronic, and digital resources. Alma’s cloud infrastructure helps libraries improve their operational efficiency through data sharing and collaboration. As a result, libraries can focus their resources on extending services within and outside the institution and on supporting the institution’s teaching and research missions. The general release of the Alma solution is scheduled for early 2012.
Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (January 2011). Ex Libris Marks Progress in Developing URM
Ex Libris continues to make progress on the development of its next-generation library management platform called Unified Resource Management, or URM. This product, which was developed as the company's long-term strategic library automation platform, continues in the research and development stage, with expected release at the beginning of 2012. Although the product is still some time away from general availability, it has progressed from the proof-of-concept prototypes to a functional model. Though preliminary, some versions have been made available to development partner libraries for testing and assessment
Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (August 2008). Ex Libris Sets Strategic Course on Open Systems
Ex Libris specializes in automation products, primarily aimed at academic and research libraries, and has a large base of customer libraries throughout the world. In June 2008, Ex Libris announced that it had launched what it calls an "open-platform program" formalizing and expanding its commitment to deliver its products and services in a more transparent approach.
Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (January 2007). Consolidation continues: Endeavor acquired by Francisco Partners
Following its July 2006 acquisition of Ex Libris, private-equity firm Francisco Partners announced a definitive agreement late last fall to acquire 100 percent of Endeavor Information Systems from Elsevier. This acquisition represents a major step toward consolidation in the academic library-automation industry. As a result, this combined company stands as the largest provider focused solely on providing systems and services to academic libraries.
Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (December 2006). Francisco Partners completes Ex Libris buy
Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (March 2006). OPAC sustenance: Ex Libris to serve up Primo
Marshall Breeding provides a description of Primo, a new information discovery and delivery tool from Ex Libris.
Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (November 2005). Ex Libris withdraws from IPO
In a move to gain additional funding for its business strategies, Ex Libris recently embarked on an initial public offering of stock to raise capital. But late in the process, the company’s board of directors withdrew from the IPO; the aborted effort follows another significant company event--the retirement of Azriel Morag, company founder and longtime chairman of the board.
Breeding, Marshall, Smart Libraries Newsletter (April 2005). Ex Libris reorganizes its U.S. operations
Library Systems Newsletter (July 1997). Ex Libris purchases Dabis
Ex Libris Lts., the Israeli company which sells the Aleph 500 automated library systems and supports several earlier generations of that system, has purchased DABIS of Germany and DABIS of Austria, a former leading vendor of automated library systems in the German speaking countries. DABIS had gone into receivership, primarily because of failure to sell new systems. ExL GmbH, a new Ex Libris subsidiary, will service the 300 DABIS accounts and will seek to migrate them to its product. It has hired 26 former DABIS staffers and will maintain offices in Hamburg, Berlin, and Cologne.