What Is an Archive? Types, Uses and Examples
Ask two people what an archive is and you can easily get two unrelated answers. One will describe off-site storage of rarely used physical items. The other will point at the button in Gmail or Instagram that makes something disappear from view without deleting it. Both uses are ordinary, and the overlap in terminology causes […]
Integrated Library System (ILS): A Complete 2026 Guide
Every task in a library touches the same underlying records. Ordering a title, cataloguing it, lending it, renewing a journal subscription, answering “do we have this?”: each one depends on knowing what the collection holds, where each item is, and who is using it. An integrated library system exists so that this knowledge lives in […]
Legal Resource Management: What Modern Law Firm Libraries Get Right
A law firm library holds material that resists tidy handling. Primary law arrives across several series with different citation conventions. Serials keep irregular schedules. Loose-leaf needs filing. Multi-volume sets grow and get superseded. Alongside all of that sit collections nobody else has: unreported judgments, internal research notes, know-how a partner wrote nine years ago and […]
What Is Knowledge Management? Systems, Methods and How to Choose One
Ask four people in the same organisation what knowledge management means and you will often get four different answers. A search platform, to an IT director. The help centre, to a customer support lead. Culture and behaviour change, to a management consultant. To a librarian, archivist, or information manager it means description and retrieval, and […]
Law Firm Knowledge Management Software: Features and How to Choose
Most law firms already own the knowledge that makes them valuable. It sits in closed matters, in the precedents a partner keeps in a personal folder, and in the memory of the associate who handled a similar deal last year. The problem is finding it again. When knowledge is hard to locate, lawyers rebuild work […]
What Is Archival Accessioning? Managing Physical and Born-Digital Records
Records rarely arrive in an archive tidily. A closed matter transfers three years of case files, a completed project leaves behind a SharePoint folder, and a restructured department hands over boxes from offsite storage alongside a shared drive nobody has touched in years. Before any of it can be searched, cited, or relied on, someone […]
Records Management Software: A Buyer’s Guide for Compliance-Driven Teams
When an auditor, a regulator, or opposing counsel asks for a specific record, you can either produce it, complete and defensible, or you cannot. That single test is why compliance-driven teams eventually outgrow shared drives and general document tools, and start evaluating records management software built to govern information across its full lifecycle. This guide […]
How to Choose a Legal KM System: Buyer Guide
Selecting the right KM system ensures your firm can capture, organize, and reuse its expertise, improving service consistency, reducing duplicated efforts, and protecting institutional knowledge during staff turnover. Firms with organized knowledge respond faster to clients, enhance efficiency in document drafting and research, and convert tacit knowledge into explicit, reusable assets.
Soutron Global Acquires Biblionix, Adding Apollo and Artemis to Its Growing Library, Archive and Digital Preservation Technology Platforms
With Apollo for smaller libraries and VERSO for mid-size libraries and consortia, we now serve the full small to mid-size public-library market. Together with SHAREit ILL, we service over 7,000 US public libraries, as well as cultural and knowledge institutions worldwide..
Library Resource Sharing Webinar Q&A
…highlights from the library resource sharing webinar panel discussion and audience Q&A, along with a note that attendees unable to join live can view the on-demand recording of the past session.