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City of Westminster Archives moves to managed service with upgrade to CalmView: Public benefit from
Added: (Tue Sep 22 2009)
Axiell (formerly DS), the market leader in UK public libraries and archives and part of the Axiell Library Group AB, announced that the City of Westminster (www.westminster.gov.uk) has moved to a fully managed service with its upgrade to Axiell’s fully web-based CalmView user interface to manage its archives collection. CalmView also offers internet access to its WestCat archives collection. The archives collection’s extensive resources include books, pamphlets, directories, newspapers, journals, maps & plans, over 60,000 prints, drawings & photographs, local government records from 1460, electoral registers, census returns, parish registers, and business archives.
The City of Westminster is taking advantage of CalmView’s new easy-to-use configuration options to create their own image gallery which promotes access to their extensive image collection by pushing useful images directly to the public as they search.
An added bonus of CalmView is the option to use the service on a managed service basis and the City of Westminster was very keen to take up this option. CalmView is hosted and managed by Axiell, on behalf of City of Westminster, from their offices in Nottingham.
John Sargent, Archives and Local Studies Manager at the City of Westminster, explains how this delivered benefits for the authority: “Using Axiell’s experienced team to manage the CalmView service for us made ultimate sense. The technology fits in with our IT strategy it has streamlined our lines of communication, improved our responsiveness to problems and also reduced our internal IT overhead. The end result is an improved service to our customers both in terms of reliability and functionality.”
City of Westminster Archives is one of over 350 customers across the UK who use Axiell’s Calm system to manage their records, museum and archive collections. CalmView is the new web user interface that is designed to provide users with a popular style interface that can deliver records information over an intranet and the Internet. CalmView customers can get up and running quickly using the system straight out-of-the-box or alternatively tailor the look and feel of the system using the system’s step-by-step, layered customisation.
The City of Westminster Archives is a diverse collection, dating from 1256, which includes records office registers, hand-written documents, printed books, photographs, watercolours, maps, plans, prints and drawings. Deposited records include special collections covering the Grosvenor Estate, and Westminster City School plus archives deposited by larger businesses including those of Gillow, furniture makers, Liberty & Co, and Jaeger & Co.
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Axiell UK
Axiell UK, formerly known as DS, provides library software solutions to one third of local authorities in the UK, while over 350 customers use Calm, the system of choice for Archives, Museums and Records Offices. The company is a leading business solutions supplier to libraries, archives, museums and records centres. Under the name of DS, the business served UK local government for over 30 years.
Axiell UK offers its customers both software and hardware and a full range of implementation, and facilities management and integration services and the company continues to be a pioneer in software development for libraries.
Axiell is a member of Axiell Library Group AB, which has subsidiaries in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Founded in the mid 1980’s, Axiell Library Group in Sweden was the first vendor in the Nordic countries to develop a local library management system. In 1996 it was one of the world’s first suppliers to launch a complete graphic local library system which implemented all of the established library standards. This development has continued, and today Axiell Library Group is the world’s fifth largest company in the sector, supplying IT systems and services dedicated solely to libraries and archives as a target group and with its focus on library and archive development.
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Axiell Library Group AB
Founded in the mid 1980’s, Axiell was the first vendor in the Nordic countries to develop a local library management system. In 1996 it was one of the world’s first suppliers to launch a complete graphic local library system which implemented all of the established library standards. This development has continued, and today Axiell Library Group is the world’s fifth largest company in the sector, supplying IT systems and services dedicated solely to libraries as a target group and with its focus on library development.
Axiell develops technically advanced library management systems in close cooperation with its customers.
More than 700 municipalities are using Axiell’s systems in their public libraries in the Nordic countries. Together with school libraries and special libraries Axiell’s systems are used more than 3000 different places.
Axiell Library Group is a group company with four subsidiaries in Sweden, Denmark and Finland as well as the UK. www.axiell.com
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Axiell UK Contact Press Contact
Nigel Lancaster, Sales and Marketing Director
Tel. 0115 900 8000
Email: nigel.lancaster@axiell.co.uk
Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd,
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Axiell Library Group Contact Press Contact
Jerk Sintorn, President, CEO
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Lise Søderberg, Nordic Communication and Marketing Manager,
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Keywords: Axiell, Calm, CalmView, archives, managed service, web-based, image gallery