Axiell Library Group has decided to support the survivors after the terrible earthquake in Haiti that struck on January 12.

As company we find it important to express our sorrow of the massive destructions which has hit Haiti and has claimed the lives of thousands of people.

The surviving Haitian population desperately needs contribution for medical aid, tents, clean water, food – basically everything. Therefore Axiell as company has decided to contribute a monetary donation to Red Cross, who together with other NGO´s do an extremely important job for the survivors.
 

Axiell Library Group has received bronze diploma in credit ability by the well-reputed company Soliditet.

Only 4036 companies of 315.899 joint-stock companies have been awarded triple-A for the highest creditworthiness – and among them is Axiell Library Group.

In order to obtain a bronze diploma your company needs to have had your triple-A for at least 5 years. And Axiell Library Group has had the triple-A since 2003.

Becoming triple-A rated your company turnover must exceed 2 mill SEK and has existed for at least 4 years and the ratios need to be substantially higher than industry average.

At the fifth annual RFID in Libraries Conference in London the new partnership between Axiell and Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems was announced.

Bibliotheca establishs a company Bibliotheca Ltd in the UK, and through the partnership with Axiell a full range of new RFID eqipment can be offered to the UK libraries. Axiell continues its focus on RFID which compliments its "one-stop-shop" approach covering all technology requirements for the library, from library management system to managed service, EDI, single search and wireless access control.

Jim Burton, Axiell's UK Managing Diretor says, "Our agreement with Bibliotheca means we can now offer an expanded range of Axiell and Bibliotheca RFID products - including the new Bibliotheca variable height kiosk and the tunnel reader for bulk returns. We also continue to support customers using Axiell's RFID products."

On Thursday the 3rd of December 2009 Boris Zetterlund, Strategy Manager in Axiell gave a presentation at the Online Information Conference in London. His presentation took as its starting point the schism between the library's role and the mobile trend, and through an analysis of open data and open solutions he described how libraries can fulfill the users’ needs by combining applications such as open data, APIs, xhtml and phone apps in innovative ways.

The mobile phone is undoubtedly strong driving force, a behaviour changer. Internet access from mobile phones has already doubled from 2009 to 2008. Library users will soon be demanding that every interaction can take place via the cell phone. Mobile phones are a computerised communication tool for all purposes, and there is a need
to offer a greater variety of new innovative services to customers through cell phones. Several vendors have solutions within this area –including Axiell – and we are convinced that even more services have to be developed and offered to customers.

In his paper on cell phones, open data and open solutions, Boris Zetterlund, product strategy manager for Axiell, discussed how mobile phones are already being used to communicate with libraries with services such as SMS renewals and reservations becoming increasingly popular. New applications such as BookDesire where users can choose their ideal style, genre and subject of book are leading the way for innovation. He suggested that in the future applications such as RFID payment via phones, iris recognition as security and videos of author visits via mobile phone will become the expected norm. To achieve these service improvements for library users, technology companies must focus on user needs, not data subtleties, and develop open systems which use smart APIs to allow local authorities to combine data in usable chunks. 

Dudley Library Service - one of Axiell's customers in the UK - has been nominated for its self-service library provision, which uses Axiell's RFID technology to enable a new service model.

It was the borough’s ICT department that nominated the library service for its self-service library provision. For Dudley had five under-performing libraries all housed in older, unfit for purpose buildings and together they contributed only 6% of issues and 5% of visits. The ‘Library Links’ initiative replaced these with a new service model providing a tailored library service, delivered in partnership with other organisations and based within four existing well-used public or community buildings.

RFID technology made Dudley’s new service model possible by enabling:

1. A total of 723 staffed opening hours per week across the borough’s libraries (an increase of 50.5 hours).
2. Library Links available for 111 hours per week in total.
3. Customer-friendly self-service for borrowing, renewing and returning books.
4. Improved stock management and usage monitoring to maintain the tailored service provided at each location.
5. A modern interface between the library and its users.

Dudley chose Axiell’s unique RFID solution for libraries, which works well together with Dudley’s library management system, OpenGalaxy, also supplied by Axiell.

Read further in the press release.