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  • Fill Your Library with Digital Content!

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    Published February 25, 2022 It’s no secret libraries are evolving, the 21st century is all about digital content in your catalog! Increasingly, libraries are focused on managing digital information. Not only is data increasingly being produced in digital format, more and more people expect access to information anywhere, anytime. Softlink IC’s Liberty can bring your…

  • Digital Preservation

    Digital Preservation

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    In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable. It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods and technologies, and it combines policies, strategies and actions to ensure access to reformatted and “born-digital” content, regardless of the challenges of media failure and technological change. The goal of…

  • The Supercharged Librarian

    The Supercharged Librarian

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    The New Library and The New Librarian 21st-century librarians are seeing a redefinition of their roles, moving from stewards of physical information to educators on digital literacy. Library buildings, are becoming less about offering a refuge for quiet, independent study and more about creating opportunities for creativity and collaboration. The format of information is moving…

  • Liberty Makes Managing Copyright Obligations in the Digital Era Easy

    Liberty Makes Managing Copyright Obligations in the Digital Era Easy

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    Technologies grow in complexity. The number of digital collections in libraries is expanding. Managing the copyright obligation of those resources is a significant task for library staff. Liberty, Softlink IC’s library management system (LMS), includes a Copyright module. It is designed to make it easier for library staff to manage copyright obligations. What is Copyright and…

  • 4 Important Email Notifications You Should be Sending Your Library Users

    4 Important Email Notifications You Should be Sending Your Library Users

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    Regular contact with your library and information center users is vital. This means keeping them informed of research services, reminding them about their loaned items, or planned events. It reinforces your value to them. Making sure you keep in contact via email is the ideal way to do that. If you use our Liberty Library…

  • 6 Easy Steps for Switching to Liberty!

    6 Easy Steps for Switching to Liberty!

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    So you have decided Liberty is your ideal new library management system. What’s stopping you from taking the plunge? Is it tempting to stick with your clunky old library system because it might be easier than changing it? Softlink IC understands that switching to Liberty is like moving to a new house. You need to pack up all…

  • So You Think Your Library Homepage is an Attention Grabber? Wait ‘til you Personalise it

    So You Think Your Library Homepage is an Attention Grabber? Wait ‘til you Personalise it

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    Imagine being able to personalise information that displays on your library Homepage when any of your borrowers log in. Well, now it’s possible with Liberty, Softlink’s integrated library management system. In Case You Don’t KnowInformation boxes in Liberty are individual “panels” that you can use to highlight: NewsNew itemsItems by subject or genreSeminarsLectures, andLibrary events.They come…

  • 5 Brilliant Benefits of Liberty v5 to Whet Your Appetite

    5 Brilliant Benefits of Liberty v5 to Whet Your Appetite

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    We don’t have enough space here to write a novella about all the benefits you will get with Softlink Information Centres’ Liberty v5 (and we’re pretty sure you don’t have the time to read one right now), so these 5 brilliant benefits may whet your appetite for more. If they do, you can find out…

  • Data Conversion – Why Softlink Information Centres Does it Better

    Data Conversion – Why Softlink Information Centres Does it Better

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    The Softlink Information Centres’ Data Conversion team understands the apprehension felt by new Liberty and illumin customers when facing the prospect of converting data from their old library or knowledge management system. Justin Westacott, our Senior Conversion Analyst, gives us a glimpse of our data conversion process and why we do it better than others. A Focused TeamThe conversion…

  • 5 Steps on the Journey to a New Library Management System

    5 Steps on the Journey to a New Library Management System

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    Is your current library management system having trouble coping with the exciting challenges your knowledge center staff face? Is a new library management system the answer? If so, Softlink IC believes Liberty is the system for you. It will meet your current and future needs. But we do understand you might want to do a bit of research and…