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Volume 25 Number 04 (April 2005)


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Breeding, Marshall, School Libraries continue push toward District-wide automation
School library automation has seen a major shift in the last three years. More and more, school districts are moving away from products installed in individual school libraries and toward systems designed for centralized automation. Products designed for installation in individual schools have experienced steady sales declines over the last few years, while emerging technologies, produced for centralized, district-wide automation, chart sales increases.
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Breeding, Marshall, AquaBrowser dives into ILS Technology
Medialab Solutions, B.V, an Amsterdam-based software development company, has developed a search environment called AquaBrowser that takes quite a different approach. As with a standard catalog, a search session begins by typing search terms. In addition to the list of results returned by a conventional online catalog search, AquaBrowser Library presents an interface designed to help the searcher pinpoint material that matches their investigation topic.
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Breeding, Marshall, Ex Libris reorganizes its U.S. operations
Israel-based Ex Libris Group reports a number of changes in the executive leadership of its United States subsidiary, Ex Libris (USA).
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Breeding, Marshall, The ARL stats 6