Dawsonera – A T Little Group acquire assets

8 July 2020 (from lis-e-resources)

Announcement from A T Little Group

We are pleased to announce that we have agreed with the administrators to purchase the assets only for Dawson Books Dawsonera current catalogue. This will allow us to import the Dawsonera catalogue to our VLeBooks system to give a high degree of matches on VLeBooks to your institution’s owned content. Whilst we cannot guarantee a 100% match we believe this will make the migration as seamless as possible for your users and ensure the maximum amount of content continues to be available through VLeBooks.

VLeBooks, our Digital eBook Platform, is available through Browns Books for Students and Askews and Holts Library Services.
We have already started the process of importing the Dawsonera catalogue to safeguard the database and hope to complete this as soon as possible. We will shortly be in touch with customers, who have already been in contact with us, to begin making live the additional catalogue items.
Please note, we have no control over when the administrators will cease the Dawsonera platform and therefore it is very important that you take the following immediate actions to ensure continuity of access of your digital library to your users.

• Ensure you have a full and up to date list of the owned content you hold on Dawsonera so that we can match and transfer the licence details onto VLeBooks.
• Inform your users that any notes they’ve made and wish to keep, need to be immediately downloaded from Dawsonera and saved safely. We are unsure, at this time, whether these will be able to be re-instated on our own service.
• Contact either Browns Books for Students enquiries@brownsbfs.co.uk or Askews and Holts Library Services academic@askewsandholts.com to setup a FREE VleBooks platform account, if you don’t have one already; and to confirm you have a Dawsonera account that you wish to migrate from.