April
2025
Current Issue: BDSlife Unbound

30 YEARS OF BDS

In 2025, BDS celebrates 30 years of providing library-quality metadata to its customers in the UK, Ireland and further afield. Read its story here, from the first steps into the new age of electronic connectedness over the internet to today’s super-fast comms and huge databases that keep our libraries and bookshops running, allowing people to find exactly the book, film, album or video game that they want.

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Articles

A CAREER HELPING LIBRARIES WORK SMARTER
CONNECTING KNOWLEDGE, BUILDING THE FUTURE
DISCOVERING BLOOMSBURY
JASMINE JOINS BDS
PHILANTHROPY, TRAGEDY AND DERRIN’ DO
KEEPING HERITAGE ALIVE
BACKING ABSOLUTE CLASSICS
SARUM MASTER BIBLE RETURNS HOME

September
2024
BDSlife, Issue 8

In this Autumn 2024 issue of BDSlife Online we pay tribute to the remarkable work performed by The Friends of the Nations’ Libraries. We also highlight the launch of BDS’s new metadata supply service to academic libraries, UniCat. We present all the action in films in this issue. We also look at how it is being received in institutions in the UK. We report on conferences across the UK and Ireland and a visit from the Scottish branch of the Metadata Discovery Group to the BDS offices in Dumfries. Finally, we pay tribute to our friend and colleague Jennifer Murray who sadly passed away at the very end of last year.

UNICAT DISCOVERY DAY SUCCESS

Here is your chance to view the complete presentations given at our highly successful UniCat Discovery Day that took place at the British Library on 23rd October 2024.

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Articles

TO ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF CIVILISATION
BDS LAUNCHES UNICAT
UNICAT DISCOVERY DAY
BDS AT UKSG 2024
GOLDSMITHS ADOPT UNICAT
BDS TARGETS UTF-8
MDGS VISITS BDS
HUDDERSFIELD WIN NAG AWARD
HEATHER SHERMAN AT CONUL
REMEMBERING JENNIFER MURRAY

Previous Issues

BDSlife Online, Issue 7

BDSlife Online, issue 6

BDSlife Online, Issue 5