March 15, 2007
The European Union continues to realize its goal of providing EU citizens with access to all common information resources
Brussels, Belgium—March 15, 2007. Ex Libris™ (Germany) announced today that the Council of the European Union has selected the ALEPH® 500 integrated library system for its library. The Council, the highest executive organization of the European Union and gathering place of EU heads of state and ministers, is the sixth EU organization to adopt Ex Libris solutions. The other EU customers are the European Commission, the European Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Central Bank, and the European Court of Auditors. The ALEPH 500 system will replace the organization’s EOS International GLAS and MiniDoc systems.
Following a lengthy bidding and evaluation process, the Council selected ALEPH 500 for its system architecture, multilingual capabilities, and flexible user interface, all of which make it perfectly compatible with the Council’s organizational structure. Another important factor is the ability of the ALEPH thesaurus model to integrate the EU thesauri.
Jurgen Kussow, senior consultant at Ex Libris Germany, explains: The EU has an ambitious goal of creating a unified IT infrastructure for all EU institutions. The unified infrastructure will give EU citizens access to all common information resources. We are proud that ALEPH will play a central role in the realization of this goal.
About the Council of the European Union:
The Council of the European Union is the EU’s main decision-making body. In coordination with the European Parliament, the Council exercises legislative power on a wide range of community issues. The European Council is composed of one ministerial-level representative from each member state, empowered to represent his/her government. Council members are politically accountable to their national parliaments.
For additional information on the Council of the European Union, see http://consilium.europa.eu
About Ex Libris Group:
Ex Libris Group is a leading worldwide developer and provider of high-performance applications for libraries, information centers, and researchers, with installations around the globe. The Ex Libris flagship ALEPH® 500 and Voyager® integrated library solutions are in use at over 3,000 sites worldwide. Other products from the Ex Libris suite, deployed at more than 1,300 sites, focus on the digital library and offer state-of-the-art, user-centric solutions for managing and providing informed access to electronic resources and digital assets.
