Case Study: The Random House Group achieves ultra-fast, flexible library archive management with Soutron

Random House Choose Soutron For Library Archive Solution

The Random House Group’s UK Archives & Library Division needed a global library archive solution to unify two separate systems running on different servers and operating systems, while supporting fast, accurate search and retrieval for a large and growing collection. Random House chose Soutron and its Library Archive System, BARD (Bibliographic Archive Random House Database), to meet these needs.

Soutron implemented a web-browser-based system that consolidated all archive and library information into one platform, enabling complex searching, flexible reporting, and easier cataloguing. The solution can handle nearly 350,000 records in under 1 second and supports the addition of about 3,000 new records per month, while also reducing duplicated data entry and making the collection more accessible and easier for IT to support.

The Random House Group

Jean Rose

Library Manager