Information & Knowledge Centres

We get to know a little bit more about Emily in our latest in our Softlink Information Centres Employee Spotlight series.

A fortnightly round up of library and information centre news and opinions from around the world.

Many library system vendors like Softlink Information Centres offer the option of hosting their customers’ systems in “the cloud”. It takes the stress out of managing the technical “stuff”. Libraries and knowledge centers benefit greatly from this option. We have whittled the advantages down to twelve, grouped into three categories. They explain why most of our Liberty and illumin customers are in the cloud.

We know pointing is a bit rude, even if we aren’t asking you to recruit for military service. We are asking: do you know what illumin Softlink IC’s knowledge and reference management system can do for you? If using spreadsheets or a help desk tool never designed to manage research requests is painful, illumin is the cure!

We get to know a little bit more about David in our latest Softlink Information Centres Employee Spotlight series.

Remember the feeling you had when you stepped foot into your library for the first time? Nervous excitement aside, everywhere you looked, you saw opportunities to make a difference. The feeling that you could make all the changes you wanted - all well before your first anniversary in the job.

There are three strategies Softlink Information Centres believes are crucial to making your organization’s staff advocate for your knowledge center, or library. They are:

Why is illumin, our Knowledge and Research Management System, the ideal partner for academic libraries? Let us count the ways - well some of them at least!

A fortnightly round up of library and information centre news and opinions from around the world.

Promoting the value of your library is a necessity these days. While there are no doubt several actions you have already implemented to do so, we thought we'd give you a few more ideas!