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Leeds Library and Information Service comprises 54 libraries, five mobile
libraries, a schools library service, four prison libraries and an 'at
home' service. The library service attracted over 4.2 million visitors
last year, holds a catalogue of 995,000 items and issues over 3 million
items per year.
Talis Keystone will enable the Library to expose features from their Talis
Library Management System (LMS) and directly embed them into their bespoke
Local Authority Finance system.
Patricia Carroll, Libraries Development Manager commented, “We are
initially buying Talis Keystone to link our electronic invoices into the
Council finance system as the final EDI process. We believe that this will
deliver a Gershon saving of circa £10,000 per year. We envisage Talis
Keystone raising the profile of libraries within the Council, by
integrating with all systems relating to citizen authentication, e-
payments and we consider it as part of our embryonic portal developments.’’
Ceri McCall, Senior Manager for Sales and Marketing commented, “We are
very pleased to welcome Leeds Library and Information Service to our
growing community of Talis Keystone customers. We are experiencing growing
demand from libraries, driven by the need to integrate their services for
greater efficiencies. Feedback to date from libraries and their developers
has been extremely positive, particularly in relation to the speed,
flexibility and ease of implementation.”
Leeds Library and Information Service joins the University of Greenwich,
Queen’s University Belfast and University College Dublin, who have already
successfully implemented Talis Keystone to integrate their library
services into their portals and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE’s).
The Talis Keystone architecture leverages industry standards such as XML
and SOAP to enable interoperability between library and institutional
systems. Talis’ approach is to empower both institutions and the developer
community to deploy Talis Keystone themselves, by providing the necessary
tools and support via a special ‘sandbox’ available within the Talis
Developer Network (www.talis.com/tdn/keystone).
For more information about Talis Keystone please visit
www.talis.com/keystone or contact 0870 400 5090.
For further information, please contact:
Donna Ferguson, Marketing Communications Executive
T: +44 (0) 870 400 5061
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