Library Technology Guides

May 14, 2013

South Lanarkshire Council selects Civica to transform library services. Civica

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.

May 8, 2013

Omers acquires Civica. 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.

November 15, 2012

Politeknik Brunei chooses Spydus LMS and RFID. Civica

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.

October 30, 2012

Cockburn Libraries live on Managed Service. Civica

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.

September 24, 2012

Civica to implement new library systems at National Library Board in Singapore. Civica

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.

May 3, 2012

Roebourne Shire goes live on Spydus. Civica

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.

March 21, 2012

Libraries on the Go - Sorcer Mobile now on Android. Civica

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.

December 19, 2011

Civica Taiwan awarded Tainan Municipal Library project. Civica

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.

November 16, 2011

30 Years of Partnership with The Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE. Civica

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.

February 9, 2010

Civica Library and Learning and Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems AG sign global memorandum of understanding on technology and commercial collaboration. Civica

Civica and Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems (Bibliotheca) have signed a global Memorandum of Understanding covering technology development and commercial collaboration of the Civica UHF and the Bibliotheca HF RFID systems for public libraries, specialist libraries and academic libraries. This collaboration will be additional to the ongoing independent research and development of the two companies.

January 13, 2010

Niagara University to implement Spydus from Civica/CMI. Civica

Civica announced today Niagara University has selected the Spydus Integrated Library System. The system will replace the existing SirsiDynix Horizon System.

August 10, 2009

Hutchinson Community College selects Spydus Integrated Library System. Civica

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.

February 20, 2009

Civica/CMI annouces the recruitment of Jeanne Spala . Civica

Civica/CMI, a leading worldwide provider of library automation technology, announced Jeanne Spala has joined Civica/CMI in a Senior Consultant role.

July 29, 2008

Civica selected for Singapore FutureSchools. Civica

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.

April 29, 2008

UK’s largest library authority to enhance reader services for over 1.3 million people with Civica . 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.