British Library appoints four new international sales partners to distribute new online services
21 November 2007
New agreements will provide local sales presence in key territories in Europe, the Far East and the Middle East.
The British Library announced today four new sales partnerships with BTJ Sverige AB, Arabian Advanced Systems, FlySheet Information Services and Orex to distribute its new services including British Library Direct+ and Turning the Pages 2.0.
"The past 12 months has seen the launch of several major new product developments at the British Library" explained Mat Pfleger, Head of Sales and Marketing. "We have launched a toolkit version of our award-winning Turning the Pages service that will allow libraries around the World to publish their own rare books online, British Library Direct +, our major new discovery database and several extensions to our document supply services. With all of these services aimed at global library audiences, we wanted to make sure we had on the ground representation from the leading library suppliers in each region and we believe that these agreements give us just that. As well as sharing our commitment to customer service excellence, each partner is renowned for delivering breaking library technologies, so the synergies were clear."
The agreement with BTJ Sverige AB (http://www.btj.se/) covers all territories in Scandinavia, Arabian Advanced Systems (http://www.aas.com.sa) will cover key territories in the Arab World, North Africa and the Middle East, FlySheet Information Services will cover China and Taiwan and the agreement with Orex (http://www.orex.es) covers Spain.
For further information please contact: Ben Sanderson at the British Library Press Office (telephone +44 (0)1937 546126, email: ben.sanderson@bl.uk) or Lawrence Christensen (telephone +44 (0)20 7412 7114, email: lawrence.christensen@bl.uk)
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