Newcastle College Purchases AquaBrowser Library™
Bristol, UK, October 16, 2008. Infor, the exclusive distributor of AquaBrowser Library in Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, today announced that Newcastle College in the UK has purchased the AquaBrowser search and discovery platform by Medialab Solutions BV. Newcastle College will also be implementing My Discoveries, adding a wealth of social features to the library catalog, including tagging, reviews, ratings, lists, and millions of tags from LibraryThing™ users.
Located in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Newcastle College offers undergraduate, school leaver, vocational and part-time courses to nearly 30,000 students. Newcastle College has one of the largest Library Services in further education in the UK comprising a main library, two branches and a collection of approximately 60,000 bibliographic records. The college library will be integrating AquaBrowser with its Heritage™ Library Management System from IS Oxford.
About AquaBrowser
AquaBrowser's™ mission is to help the library play a central role in the provision and safeguarding of knowledge. AquaBrowser™ Library, the world leader in visual faceted searching, helps the library take centre stage by opening up all of its resources to the community. My Discoveries™ was created to take the next step: to give a role and a voice to the community, and to connect the people who create, organize and use the library's resources, inside and outside the library.
About Infor Library and Information Solutions
Infor Library and Information Solutions offers libraries and information centers a suite of automation products, including an information portal and federated search application (V-spaces), an Open URL Resolver (V-link), an Integrated Library System (Vubis Smart), and an Electronic Resources Management System (V-sources). Our organization has been at the forefront of library technology for three decades and has a rich history of providing innovative solutions to information centers and libraries worldwide. For more information about our products, visit http://vubis-smart.com