BDSlife

06/07/2023

The BDS staff had photographs taken this week in the grounds of Annandale House

20/10/2021

https://www.bdslive.com/job-vacancies/

11/03/2021

The second issue of BDSlife is available. Find out about the launch our new service to the academic library community, the BDS Academic Library Licence. We welcome new members of staff and say goodbye to our Chairman, Cleve Vine, who retires from the role he has held for 16 years. Our interview is with BDS Managing Director, Lesley Whyte who looks back on her 40 years working in the cataloguing sector. We also visit the Scottish Poetry Library, one of the UK’s boldest specialist libraries and we look back at the first ever MDG conference online, which BDS sponsored in September 2020 and forward to the M25 Consortium Conference.

Go to: https://www.bdslive.com/bdslife-editions/bdslife-issue-2/ to read now.

26/01/2021

https://www.bdslive.com/bds-secures-share-buy-back/

BDS successfully secured funding from Santander UK in July 2020 to support a share buy-back from a legacy minority shareholder. As a result of this development, the majority shareholding lies with the founding directors, Lesley Whyte and Eric Green. The transaction was secured in just five weeks, wi...

06/01/2021

BDS metadata production will continue, via home working, and BDS IT infrastructure, including metadata delivery and support, will remain operational throughout the current lockdown.

The company directors, Lesley Whyte, Eric Green, Sarah Armitage, Heather Sherman and Barry Smith are working from home and can be reached by email or telephone. Their contact details can be found at: www.bdslive.com/key-people.

BDS Directors Lesley Whyte - Managing Director Contact Lesley with any strategic business issues. t: 01387 702258 e: [email protected] Eric Green - Managing Director, Digital Eric heads up the Digital team dealing with Web and Design and Digital Marketing matters. He also has overall group re...

03/12/2020

https://www.bdslive.com/jenny-wright-on-rda-in-information-professional/

BDS Chief Metadata Officer, Jenny Wright has co-authored an article in Information Professional, published through CILIP. RDA: Moving into a new era of metadata management is prompted by the forthcoming introduction of a new version of the RDA standard, due to launch on 15 December. Jenny and her co...

20/11/2020

As a new season of Absolute Classics concerts begins in the virtual concert going world, BDSlife looks back to an incredible festival earlier this year that BDS helped make a reality.
https://www.bdslive.com/bdslife-online/bds-sponsors-online-absolute-classics/

18/11/2020

This time last year BDSlife was visiting libraries it had supported as part of Waltham Forest's year as London Borough of Culture. Find out more and see some of the exhibits that brought the libraries alive with colour as part of the Page to Pavement project.

12/11/2020

https://www.bdslive.com/news/