Ex Libris (USA) has opened a Boston area office to support its customers along the East Coast, including Boston College, Brandeis University, CUNY, Hebrew College, and SUNY. Some development work will be undertaken at the new office, which will be in the Boston suburb of Watertown, but most activity will continue to be centered in Chicago.
Ex Libris has also announced the signing of Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Ex Libris is well ahead of its business plan to establish itself as a serious contender in the North American library automation market.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Ex Libris (Deutschland) announced that the HBZ Consortium has gone on-line with a database of 10 million bibliographic records and 25 million holdings for 1,300 libraries. The system is configured for 655 concurrent staff users and 100 Web users. The system has an interface for downloading records from the consortium's ALEPH system to local library systems. Next year the system will add an interlibrary loan component.,
[Contact Ex Libris (USA) Inc., 1919 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60614; telephone 773-404-5527; fax 773-404-5601; Web: exlibris-usa.com]
