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Seasons Greeting’s & Holiday Support Times

As we celebrate this festive season, I want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our clients, business partners and teams...

NAR Streamlines Access to Real Estate Knowledge with Soutron Archive

National Association of REALTORS (NAR) has streamlined its Library & Archive services by implementing Soutron Archive, enabling...

Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence Cornerstones: Special Libraries and Archives

Within the knowledge management and artificial intelligence ecosystem, special libraries and corporate archives serve a critical role in...

Rochester Electronics Transforms Their Content Management with Soutron Archive

Rochester Electronics has successfully transformed its content management operations by updating their Soutron Archive implementation...

Soutron Global Achieves Data Privacy Framework (DPF) Self-Certification, Further Protecting Client Data

Soutron Global has successfully re-certified for the Data Privacy Framework (DPF), demonstrating our continued commitment to...

8 Signs that you are an Excellent Librarian

You may take these for granted or they may be skills that you have learned and polished over the years in your chosen career as a librarian.

8 Top Archiving Tips for Librarians

So you find yourself in the inevitable position of either starting, maintaining or updating your archive or collection. By no means a small task, but one that you have to complete all the same. So where do you begin? What do you need to consider and remember when working with the archive?

How to get the most out of our RSS Feeds

RSS feeds, a great and convenient approach to letting the news come to you. We have various feeds available and would just like to explain the types we have and the best approach that may suit you or your

Top 10 Library Management System Security Issues

Library Management Systems need to be secure, but just how secure? Do you realise the complexities of security involved or have to be thought through? We have compiled this list, though not exhaustive, we feel that these security issues and points do need to be considered in most cases.

11 Considerations when Choosing a Library Management System (LMS)

If you are considering a Library Management System, basically a software application for the administering, documenting, reporting, trace and delivery of electronic documents. Have you thought about the following? If not, you may not be seeing the bigger picture.

Library Management Systems Past, Present and Future

The Library Management System has not changed much in 20 years. The format and the approach other than being web based, is fundamentally the same. There are too many suppliers, many will be bought up as we have seen the past few years and only a few will remain. Others will grow into something more knowledge focused and less back office process driven.

Top 5 Technologies to Give Librarians an Impetus to Innovate

The library used to include a Systems Librarian, someone whose role was to ensure that the library was well provisioned by technology and that the systems used by the library were up to muster. I recall one law library was so ahead of the game, that the IT department would come to the library to look for new ideas! The Systems Librarian post is still

Considerations when Designing a Database

For many clients a package database application is the ideal solution, incorporating a set of fields and templates to reflect what are commonly accepted types of information. A prime example is that of bibliographic data (an organised collection of references to published reports, articles, books or similar). There may be a need for some