Briefs
Staff -- Library Journal, 9/1/2004
- London's Middlesex University will be Dynix's first client for its RFID system, which was developed by partner company Bibliotheca. The system is being supplied by D-Tech Direct, Bibliotheca's UK distribution agent. Middlesex, a Dynix customer for a decade, will install the system in its Hendon Campus Library, which opens in September. The RFID technology will be integrated with the school's Horizon system.
- Endeavor Information Systems is the latest vendor to join VIEWS, an initiative of vendors and library service organizations to enable web services among disparate library applications. "We are very pleased to welcome Endeavor to our membership," said Carl Grant, chair of VIEWS, "and we look forward to its contributions in…serving the library and e-learning communities." As a part of VIEWS, Endeavor "looks forward to developing even more open solutions with our peers. Endeavor continues to support web services as the optimal architecture to develop over a networked infrastructure," said Verne Coppi, Endeavor's VP of development.
- R.R. Bowker is continuing its license agreement to be a "preferred reseller" of ebrary's Public Library Complete research database. The database "is accessible from Bowker's booksinprint.com, patronbooksinprint. com, and globalbooksinprint.com," the company said, adding that, with the integrated public library database, public library patrons using those Bowker sites "can view the full text of titles available simply by slicking on the link and opening the text with ebrary's PDF-based technology." The ebrary database integrates easily with most vendors' ILS systems.
- WebFeat is now marketing its new incarnation, WebFeat 3, which sports a number of new personalization capabilities called MyWebFeat. According to the company, MyWebFeat lets users organize and display library databases in exactly the way they wish, creating subject categories to match their research needs. Users can "modify the look and feel of their federated search environment by selecting presentation templates." Administrators can create multiple user profiles "including organization, preferences, presentation, and notification options." Users can choose to have returns "batched one database at a time or have multiple database results merged, sorted, and deduplicated."
