Softlink & Cassidy Cataloguing Build Strategic Partnership - Global Library Automation Leader to OEM Cassidy Cataloguings Digital Law Library

Softlink America, Inc., a global library automation provider, announced a strategic partnership with Cassidy Cataloguing Services, a New Jersey based library cataloging company, to become an OEM partner for Cassidys Digital Law Library. Softlink® will integrate the new product into their popular Liberty3 Legal Edition, as well as offer the product on a stand-alone basis beginning with its introduction at the Computers in Libraries Conference in Washington, DC, March 16-18, Booth number 222.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 24, 2005 -- Softlink America, Inc., a global library automation provider, announced a strategic partnership with Cassidy Cataloguing Services, a New Jersey based library cataloging company, to become an OEM partner for Cassidys Digital Law Library. Softlink® will integrate the new product into their popular Liberty3 Legal Edition, as well as offer the product on a stand-alone basis beginning with its introduction at the Computers in Libraries Conference in Washington, DC, March 16-18, Booth number 222.

The product will also be sold to law firms as the Softlink Digital Law LibrarySM. Liberty3 Legal Edition, one of the various components in Softlinks lineup of specialized library automation solutions, will be marketed to US law firms at first, and then globally. Liberty3 Legal Edition, can be installed either in-house or hosted in Softlinks Tier-1 data center, designed by Equinix, managed and operated by IBM Global Services, and operating on an IBM platform. The Softlink Digital Law LibrarySM will provide the following:
   -3,200 websites
   -Court Rules
   -Criminal Law & Procedure
   -Intellectual Property
   -International Trade
   -Homeland Security
   -Federal Government Branches
   -For All 50 States
   -Primary Source Material
   -Bar Association sites
   -State Administrative Agencies
   -And more...

All updated on a monthly basis to not only check and correct broken links but to add/remove pertinent/obsolete information. These high-quality MARC21 catalog records represent 3,200 pre-selected legal research websites. Each record includes a hotlink to the website itself so the catalog end-user can navigate easily to the site he/she needs.

"Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. is proud to be partnering with Softlink America, Inc. for the distribution of the Softlink Digital Law Library powered by Cassidy," says President and founder Joni Cassidy. Cassidy was quick to add, Weve known Softlink America and its staff for a number of years and enjoy working with them because they share our commitment to excellent service, high standards and a flexible, customizable product that can bend and stretch to meet the clients specifications." Cassidy further commented, their [Softlinks early commitment to web technology for the integrated library system supports our notion that effective legal research in the 21st century demands immediate remote access to authoritative digital resources. Thats the reason we built the digital law library."

"We are excited about this relationship with Cassidy Cataloguing Services." said Robert Corrao, Softlink Americas President. "Cassidy shares the same values and commitment to excellence that we have held as a global organization for nearly 23 years. We are continually working towards adding value to our vertical markets, and the Softlink Digital Law Library does just that!" Mr. Corrao continues, Liberty3 Legal Edition was designed by our legal clients...we took a flexible web-based ILS and matched it with the collective customization requests of our legal clients, producing the first web-based ILS designed by law librarians for law libraries. Adding the Softlink Digital Law Library as a component of this innovative product was a natural extension."

About Softlink America, Inc.
Softlink is one of the world's most well-respected library automation companies. Since the company's inception in Brisbane Australia in 1983, over 10,000 libraries in more than 100 countries have installed one of Softlink's suite of library automation products. Softlink America, Inc. has been active in the United States for more than 12 years. For more information about Softlink America, please visit the company on the web at www.softlinkamerica.com.

About Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc.
Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. founded in 1985, currently employs 10 staff members, 5 of them MLS-degreed catalogers and the rest a mix of systems support personnel and highly skilled library specialists, including husband-and-wife owners Michael and Joni Cassidy. Together they provide original cataloguing for all types of materials and in most foreign languages, catalog record upgrades and cleanup projects, non-MARC to MARC data conversions, special library technical services, law cataloging instruction, library automation consultation, catalog data archiving, collection re-classification, and other special projects as requested and designed. To learn more about Cassidy Cataloguing, visit www.cassidycataloguing.com.

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