SPONSORS

3M Library Systems                                                       

Sponsoring Umbrella's Delegate Bags

Library materials flow management is the key service provided by 3M Library Systems.  Materials flow is the movement of a library's "hard assets", for example books, periodicals, and CD's.  Activities can be streamlined to reduce handling, combine steps and eliminate procedures.

3M Materials Flow Management enables a library to automate virtually every aspect of its materials movement, while ensuring security.  This can shorten or eliminate steps, and enable patrons to undertake some of the work so reducing the need for staff to handle materials.  The system is claimed to boost effeciency and staff productivity as well as improving service to patrons.

For futher information please visit - www.3m.com/uk/library

7Side Ltd

Sponsoring Umbrella's Wi-Fi Zone  

7Side Ltd offers a unique approach to knowledge management systems for information professionals.  Services include instant UK company document access, research tools and access to a wide range of major corporate and credit information databases.  Responding to the need of professions to allocate costs to client files and a customized approach to accessing multiple information databases, systems are designed to individual customer specification.  This attracts the legal professions to include over 50% of the top UK law firms together with cross sector library organisations.

For further information please visit - www.7side.co.uk    Contact mary.lovell@7side.co.uk for a free consultation

Bibliographic Data Services Ltd                                                        
Sponsoring Umbrella's First Timers Lunch

BDS is the premier UK supplier of library-quality bibliographic information.  Our database of 2.2 million book records is updated daily, and available via a number of subscription services.  We offer daily information feeds or draw upon our database for retrospective conversion, catalogue enhancement or supply of records.  Records are available in UKMARC or MARC21, and conform to all major library standards.  We also have a database of 85,000 records for items available on DVD or VHS.  BDS offers a flexible approach towards data supply, and we are always willing to discuss individual library requirements for cataloguing data.

For futher information please visit - www.bibliographicdata.com

Civica                                                       

Sponsoring Umbrella's Internet Cafe

Civica is a leading supplier of library automation solutions with more than two decades of experience.  Its Spydus software provides a total information management solution in a single product.  In addition to managing bibliographic data, it caters for multimedia collections, community information, historical archives and artefacts, and abstracts or full text management.

Now in its third generation, Spydus is a functionality rich, web-centric application.  As well as automating traditional library functions such as circulation, cataloguing, public access, acquisitions, and serial control, Spydus includes facilities for Inter-library loans, selection (requisitions), current awareness (SDI), stocktake, stock rotation, community information, newspaper indexes, homebound borrowers, Z39.50, materials and facilities bookings, archives, self-service and data loading.

Its cornerstone is its indexing and retrieval engine.  Based on specialised indexing technology, the Spydus engine is optimised for delivering high performance data merge and join operations.  This guarantees fast response times regardless of the size of the retrieved set of records and allows for massive Boolean operations across any or all indexed fields and unlimited refinement of the result set.  The result is the most powerful, efficient and flexible search engine available in the market place.

For futher information please visit - www.civica.co.uk

Innovative Interfaces Inc

Sponsoring Delegate Compendiums

Innovative's state-of-the-art systems are used by thousands of libraries of all types and sizes in 42 countries around the world - a powerful testament to the reliability and flexibility of our software.

Innovative's products are installed at major universities, community colleges, public libraries, consortia, law libraries, medical libraries, art and museum libraries, school libraries, and specialty libraries

For further information please visit - www.iii.com

Nielsen BookData

Sponsoring Refreshment Breaks on Friday 1 July 2005

BookData creates timely, accurate, content rich records for English-language books and other published media, which is disseminated to libraries worldwide.

For further information please visit - www.nielsenbookdata.co.uk

Thompson Gale

Sponsoring Delegate Badge Lanyards

Thomson Gale is a world leader in reference publishing for libraries.  In electronic from, Thomson Gale aggregates content from third parties, as well as offering its own proprietary datasets including eBooks on the Gale Virtual Reference Library.  Best known for its accurate, authoritative and accessible content, the company creates and maintains more than 600 electronic databases including the Times Digital Archive and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

In addition to electronic resources Thomson Gale also publishes a vast range of reference resources in print and microform.  The Thomson Gale family of publishing imprints includes such noted brands as KG Saur, Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and Primary Source Microfilm.

For further information please visit - www.thomsonlearning.co.uk