Bowker acquire AquaBrowser
Via Library Technology Guides - R.R. Bowker acquires Medialab Solutions, developer of AquaBrowser Library.
In this pre-ALA announcement the New Jersey based bibliographic supply company reveals that it has acquired the Dutch company Medialab Solutions, the supplier of its FictionConnection search portal.
Maybe they just liked it so much that they bought the company. There again maybe they saw the strategic benefits in owning the supplier of an innovative library search interface that is independent of ILS/LMS vendors. - Having trouble integrating our enrichments into your OPAC, well try our OPAC instead.
Medialab Solutions, which will become part of Bowker, yet retain its Amsterdam offices, was one of the first Talis Platform partners. This enabled libraries which had contributed their holdings to the Platform, for Talis Source and other services, to rapidly deploy an OPAC instance in the AquabrowserOnline service.
Yet another player in the where do I get my OPAC from stakes. Things are starting to get interesting
