Two New Exclusive Enhancements Available for Library's OPAC Through Syndetic Solutions; Music and Movie Information Provided by Bowker's Partnership with Midwest Tape.NEW PROVIDENCE New Providence, city, United States New Providence, borough (1990 pop. 11,439), Union co., NE N.J.; settled c.1720, set off and inc. 1899. It is largely residential but has some light industry. Roses and fruit are grown there commercially. , N.J. -- Spanish-Language Annotations and Review Excerpts Support Multi-Cultural Libraries Syndetic syn·det·ic adj. 1. Serving to connect, as a conjunction; copulative or conjunctive. 2. Connected by a conjunction. [Greek sundetikos, from sundetos, Solutions, a subsidiary of R.R. Bowker R.R. Bowker, LLC provides information support for the publishing industry in the United States. Bowker is the official U.S. ISBN Agency, the publisher of Books In Print and the premier provider of enriched content for a library's online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. , has announced today an agreement with Midwest Tape to provide libraries with the highest quality information on music and movies for seamless integration into their online catalog. Additionally, new Spanish-language content in the form of annotations and review excerpts are also now available. Midwest Tape, the number one media source for libraries, offers full-service DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and music ordering capabilities for more than 126,692 relevant and timely titles. This agreement aims to provide libraries with the most music and movie information available for delivery directly into their online public access catalog (library) Online Public Access Catalog - (OPAC) A computerised system to catalogue and organise materials in a library (the kind that contains books). OPACs have replaced card-based catalogues in many libraries. An OPAC is available to library users (public access). (OPAC OPAC - Online Public Access Catalog ) through their integrated library system An integrated library system, or ILS, is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed. (ILS ILS In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Israeli Shekel. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) vendor. The new video content will include: title, jacket image, format, description, running time, rating, release date, genre, actors, director, and publisher. The audio content available includes artist, studio, recording year, release year, length, genre, categories, artists, primary artists, publisher number, synopsis, quotes, and tracks. "All of us at Midwest Tape are excited about working with Bowker to provide public libraries and library patrons with detailed descriptions and images for DVD and CD titles," noted Jeff Jankowski, Vice President of Midwest Tape. "Libraries will be able to download order records at Midwesttapes.com which will assure a good match to the Midwest Tape/Syndetics database. Quality data and images are provided as soon as they are announced by the publishers and studios, so that library patrons will be able to view the images and other product information weeks before the title is released. Real-time data and images will create more excitement for DVDs and CDs which will increase reserves and circulation." Syndetic Solutions is now also offering Spanish-language content. Spanish-language annotations and review excerpts will come from more than 40 popular sources, including: "Vanidades" (U.S. edition), "Que Leer" (Spain), "La Jornada" (Mexico), "El Diario/La Prensa" (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), "Primera Hora" (Puerto Rico), and "Reforma" (Mexico). Beginning in July and continuing through September, current Syndetics customers will receive a sneak peek of the Spanish content in their OPAC. "The debut of Spanish language content and the enhancement to our music and video content shows our commitment to helping librarians provide the most information possible to their diverse group of library patrons," said Angela D'Agostino, vice-president of business development and marketing at Bowker. "The inclusion of this new content helps the library's OPAC be the one stop source for all information about what is held in a library. Syndetic Solutions can help patrons, from teenagers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the latest box office hit to members of the Spanish speaking community interested in the most recent bestseller, find exactly what they are looking for." Spanish, music, and movie content join the list of 12 other OPAC enrichment options offered by Syndetic Solutions: full-text reviews, cover images, tables of contents, find similar title functionality, annotations, series information, awards data, biography profiles, fiction profiles, excerpts, summaries, and author notes. Content offered by Syndetic Solutions is designed to integrate directly with a library's OPAC system as to provide the library patron a seamless experience in the online catalog. About Midwest Tape Midwest Tape is the leading provider of DVDs and CDs to Public Libraries. Midwest offers many innovative services including: standing orders, online order records, full OCLC OCLC - Online Computer Library Center cataloging, VIP processing, electronic ordering, and electronic invoicing. These services and programs allow Libraries to streamline workflows while getting materials on the shelf faster than ever before. About Syndetic Solutions Syndetic Solutions is the leading supplier of descriptive content designed exclusively for library catalogs. Syndetics' services enable libraries to link to cover images and a variety of data elements relating to more than 1,800,000 books and videos published since 1985. For additional information, visit www.syndetics.com or contact Syndetics at 877-737-9722 or via email at marketing@bowker.com. |
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