Soutron Global Blog of Search, Knowledge Services, Archive and Library Management

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Streamline Your Archives: Meet Soutron Global at the Business Archives Council Conference York

Soutron Global will be exhibiting at the Business Archives Council Conference on Thursday 13th November 2025...

Libraries: The Best Information Management Solutions are Already in Place

With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the question of libraries’ relevance is more pressing than ever. You could assume that...

5 Ways Archives, Libraries and Museums Remain Essential in the Age of AI

The rise of AI might make traditional information centres seem obsolete, but the reality is the opposite. Archives, libraries and museums (ALMs) are more...

Soutron Global Announces Leadership Transition and Continued Growth Through Investment in Products & Services

We are excited to share important news about Soutron Global’s future. Brad Frasher has been appointed...

Auto-Graphics to Showcase Expanded Product Portfolio at NDLA/SDLA/MPLA Tri-Conference

Choice. It’s important to have choices in life and information management

Facebook’s CEO’s 5 hours explaining a business model to the USA’s top legislative chambers shows that experience really does pay off in avoiding mistakes. Full alignment to a...

BIALL Conference 2018, Meet us there!

We are very pleased to announce that this June 2018 Soutron will be attending the BIALL Conference at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole to showcase our Legal Library Automation software. Witness the future of Legal Library...

Meet Soutron at the CILIP LMS Suppliers Spring Showcase 2018

We are pleased to announce that Soutron will be exhibiting at CILIP’s LMS Suppliers Spring Showcase in London on Friday 9th March 2018. The Showcase is an informal and relaxed, “non-sales” environment allowing you to meet us face-to-face so that you can...

The world of information, open access and Aaron Swartz

In twelve years, he accomplished remarkable achievements such as the creation of RSS Feeds at the age of 14, being a co founder of Reddit to name two. He advanced the ideas of creating Wikipedia and...

Seasons Greeting’s & Holiday Support Times

As 2017 comes to a close, we want to wish you all a very happy, healthy Christmas and a prosperous 2018! The Soutron offices will close for the festive season on...

Getting more (or less!) from your Archive Collections with Descriptive Dates

You want your users and researchers to find relevant content from your archive with ease and to make the whole process as simple as possible. Dates are an important element in filtering content but are often difficult for users to correctly apply and use.