Ex Libris is a co-ed book club for everyone who loves to read books of substance and who is willing to participate and discuss the themes and issues our titles focus on. We're a diverse group of readers; each with our own input, opinion, and outlook on the selected books. Ex-Libris carries two stories throughout its length, one occurring about 40 years before the other. The story which happened earlier is born in great detail and dies with none. The story which happened later is too born in great detail but dies in confusion within an event nearly impossible to believe.
Ex Libris Group Ltd.
אקס ליבריס
Private
Industry
Founded
1986
Headquarters
,
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Area served
Worldwide
Bar Veinstein (CEO) Eric Hines (President of North America)
Owner
ProQuest
Number of employees
950
Website
www.exlibrisgroup.com
Ex Libris development centre in the Jerusalem Technology Park
Ex Libris Group is an Israeli software company that develops integrated library systems and other library software. The company is headquartered in Jerusalem, and has ten other offices around the world.[1] In October 2015, Ex Libris was acquired by ProQuest and is now a ProQuest company.[2]
History[edit]
Ex Libris started as an internal project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980 to develop a new library management system, as no system at the time was able to handle both Hebrew and Latin character sets as required by the University. The software was called Automated Library Expandable Program or ALEPH-100 ('Aleph' is also the name of the first letter of many Semitic alphabets).[3] In 1983, Yissum (the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University) founded Aleph-Yissum Ltd., a new company to commercialize the software. Yohanan Spruch, the original developer of ALEPH, became the company's chief technology officer. Between 1983 and 1988, all of the eight universities in Israel bought the program and linked up in a network.[3]Cdock 1 1 3.
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In 1986 Ex Libris Ltd. was founded by technology entrepreneur Azriel Morag to market the software overseas. In 1993 ALEPH was deployed by the seventeen libraries of the Vatican[4]and 200 libraries in 27 countries had bought it by 1995.[3]
In 1995 Aleph-Yissum merged with Ex Libris Ltd. and reorganized as the Ex Libris Group, headed by Azriel Morag as the group's chief executive officer.[5]
In July 1997, Ex Libris acquired Dabis, a leading vendor of automated library systems in the German speaking countries.[6]
In 1998, venture capital funds Walden Israel and Tamar Ventures invested over $4m in Ex Libris.[7]
In February 2000, Ex Libris acquired the rights to SFX, an OpenURL link server software, from the University of Ghent.[8][9] Ex Libris popularized OpenURL, which later became the ANSI/NISO Z39.88 standard in the information industry.[10]
In July 2000, Ex Libris launched MetaLib, a federated search system that conducts simultaneous searches in multiple information resources such as library catalogs, journal articles, newspapers.[11]
In August 2002, Ex Libris launched DigiTool, a full function, digital asset management system designed for libraries and information centers.[12]
In 2004, Ex Libris launched Verde, an electronic resource management system that manages the acquisition and licensing of electronic resources.[13]
In July 2006, Francisco Partners became the sole owner of Ex Libris Group.[14] In November of that year, Endeavor, the developer of the Voyager integrated library system, was merged into Ex Libris.[15]
In May 2007, Ex Libris launched the Primo library discovery and delivery service.[16]
In August 2008, Leeds Equity Partners acquired Ex Libris Group.[17]
In May 2009, Ex Libris launched the bX recommender service, which provides library users with recommendations for scholarly articles.[18] Also in 2009, Rosetta was introduced as a digital preservation and asset management solution.[buzzword][19]
In January 2011, in collaboration with four development partners, the company released the Ex Libris Alma library management solution[buzzword], the first SaaS cloud-based library services platform, representing the company's shift from an on-premise to a SaaS technology provider.[20]
Golden Gate Capital acquired Ex Libris in 2012.
Ex Libris acquired oMbiel and its product campusM, a mobile campus platform, in April 2015, marking the company's expansion to EdTech solutions[buzzword] outside the library.[21]
Leganto, the company's reading list management application, built on the Alma cloud platform, was launched in 2015, and was Ex Libris' entry into the teaching and learning domain.[22][23]
In December 2015, ProQuest acquired Ex Libris.[24][19] It was announced at that time that Ex Libris would also manage the products of the Workflow Solutions division of ProQuest,[25] such as Intota, Summon, and 360 Link.[26]
In February 2018, Ex Libris partnered with five universities across the US to collaborate on the development of a new research services platform, Ex Libris Esploro. It was the company's first step into the research services market.[27] The company provides services to thousands of customers in more than 90 countries.[28] As of 2015, Ex Libris served 43 of the 50 top universities in the world.[28] Over 40 national libraries use Ex Libris solutions.[29]
In August 2018, Ex Libris acquired Research Research Limited (known as *Research), which offers coverage of funding opportunities and publishes news and analysis of research politics and funding in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.[30]
In June 2019, Ex Libris acquired RapidILL, which had been developed by Colorado State University.[31] In December 2019, Ex Libris agreed to acquire Innovative Interfaces (III).[32]
Key people[edit]
Matti Shem Tov was the president and CEO of Ex Libris from 2003-2017. He was appointed as CEO of ProQuest in November 2017, and Bar Veinstein took over as president of Ex Libris at that time.[19]
Products[edit]
Alma: A SaaS Library Services Platform (LSP), released by company in 2012
Primo: Discovery service released in 2006
Summon: Index-based discovery service. Launched in January 2009
Rosetta: Digital preservation and asset management platform, launched in 2009
Leganto: Reading list management application launched in 2015
campusM: Mobile campus app platform for academic institutions, acquired in 2015
Esploro: Research services platform launched in February 2018
360 Link: Link resolver and knowledge base product
360 Resource Manager: Library content management
Refworks: Citation and reference management solution[buzzword]
Pivot: Comprehensive resource for finding funding opportunities available to researchers
Aleph: Original integrated library system (ILS)
Voyager: Integrated library services platform (ILS), acquired by Ex Libris in November 2006
DigiTool: Digital asset management system
bX: Scholarly article recommender service
Verde: E system
SFX: OpenURL link resolver software[8][12][19][22]
Reception[edit]
Search portals in libraries with Ex Libris products use the search engines of Ex Libris. Unfortunately, the book search engine of the Ex Libris Products Summon, Primo and Primo VE are not as advanced as those of Amazon Book Search or Google Books. For search queries with spelling variants, typos, word inflections and synonyms, Google Books performs best, second Amazon Book Search, third eBay Book Search, fourth Ex Libris Summon Search, and last Primo VE.[33]
References[edit]
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^'ProQuest to buy Israeli co Ex Libris for $500m - Globes'. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-08-08.
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^'Aleph computerizes the Vatican'. Israel Business Today. 22 October 1993. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014.
^'Walden Israel Venture Capital portfolio'. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
^'Ex Libris purchases Dabis'. Library Systems Newsletter. July 1997.
^'Ex Libris buys US competitor Endeavor - Globes'. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-08-08.
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^'Ex Libris acquires SFX linking software'. Computers in Libraries. 20 (4): 12. April 2000.
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^'ProQuest and Ex Libris Join to Accelerate Innovation for Libraries Worldwide'. Informazione - Comunicati Stampa (in Italian). 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
^'ProQuest Buys Israeli Ex Libris For $500M | Technology News'. NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News. 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
^Breeding, Marshall (6 October 2015). 'ProQuest to Acquire Ex Libris'. American Libraries. Chicago: American Library Association.
^Sanford, Kurt (15 December 2015). 'ProQuest and Ex Libris Join to Bring More Choices to Libraries'. ProQuest Blog. Retrieved 23 February 2016 – via ProQuest.
^GmbH, finanzen.net. 'Five Partners Join Ex Libris in Developing New Research Services Platform | Markets Insider'. markets.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
^ abאורפז, ענבל (2015-10-06). 'עסקת ענק: פרוקווסט האמריקאית רוכשת את אקס ליבריס הישראלית בכחצי מיליארד דולר'. TheMarker. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
^'ProQuest acquires Israeli company Ex Libris for $500 million'. Geektime. 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
^Breeding, Marshall (2018-09-01). 'Ex Libris Expands Learning and Research Division'. Smart Libraries Newsletter. 38 (9).
^'Ex Libris Acquires RapidILL, Provider of Leading Resource-Sharing Solutions'. Ex Libris. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
^'Ex Libris Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Innovative'. Innovative Interfaces Inc. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
^Suri, Roland. 'Improve Primo Search Algorithms'. Ex Libris Idea Exchange. Ex Libris. Archived from the original on 2020-05-05. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
External links[edit]
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Yewno, a Silicon Valley-based AI provider with a mission to transform information into knowledge, today announces that their Yewno Discover platform integrates into the Ex Libris Primo discovery service to provide mutual users with unparalleled access to knowledge discovery.
Yewno Discover is a powerful research tool that helps students, researchers and educators surface relevant scholarly content and make connections across interdisciplinary fields. Powered by Artificial Intelligence, Yewno Discover reads and stores full text content and displays it in a visually intuitive knowledge graph that allows users to dictate what is of interest to them and to quickly navigate between related concepts, making connections as they go.
The integration of Yewno Discover and Ex Libris Primo offers libraries a new opportunity to create additional exploration paths for their patrons. A seamless integration of the services enables the Yewno knowledge graph to appear above search results within the Primo user interface, providing more opportunities for users to understand connections and relationships.
“The Ex Libris Cloud Apps open framework enables the academic ecosystem – third-party vendors and institutions – to drive innovation and create even more connected and adaptable discovery services,” states Shlomi Kringel, Ex Libris corporate vice president of learning and research solutions. “Making the Yewno app available to all Primo customers worldwide will provide their patrons with yet another opportunity for serendipitous discovery.”
Omni recover 2 7 14. “Yewno transforms information into knowledge and increases discoverability,” says Yewno COO Ruth Pickering. “We help libraries maximize their collections and enable students to access the information that they are looking for more efficiently and to find unexpected connections and new ideas along the way.”
About Yewno
Founded in 2015, Yewno is helping the world to uncover the undiscovered through its new inference engine, which introduces an entirely new approach to knowledge discovery. Yewno inference engine incorporates machine learning, cognitive science, neural networks, and computational linguistics into an intelligent framework to enhance human understanding by correlating concepts across vast volumes sources. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and with offices in London and New York, Yewno is backed by leading investors including Pacific Capital and currently has numerous partnerships across the finance sector, top research universities, publishers and content aggregators worldwide. Yewno recently earned Frost & Sullivan’s prestigious Global Technology Innovation Award for Predictive Analytics in Financial Services.
For more information, visit www.yewno.com.
About Ex Libris
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is a leading global provider of cloud-based SaaS solutions that enable institutions and their individual users to create, manage, and share knowledge. In close collaboration with its customers and the broader community, Ex Libris develops creative solutions that increase library productivity, maximize the impact of research activities, enhance teaching and learning, and drive student mobile engagement. Ex Libris serves over 7,500 customers in 90 countries. For more information, see our website and join us on LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
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