Atlas Systems

10/13/2026

Memphis, here we come!

The Atlas team is heading to the Southeastern Resource Sharing Conference, October 22–23. We’re attending and proud to sponsor this year’s event.

We’ll be talking with colleagues about:

ILLiad 10 — what’s coming as it nears release
Ares — the future of course resource and reserves management, as we work on the next release

Hope to see you in Memphis!

10/06/2026

In Aeon 7 you can see who has a request open, what they changed, and the moment they let it go.

Katie Gillespie ran the fourth Aeon 7 webinar with two browser windows side by side, signed in as two different staff members, to show exactly what two people working the same queue see. Five things worth knowing:

• A record lock now does what the Request in Processing queue used to do — and tells you more. The desktop client moved a request into that queue while someone had it open, then moved it back. Aeon 7 leaves the status where it belongs and names the person instead, so you know who to go and ask • Editing and routing are separate decisions now. A saved field change leaves the request exactly where it is, so you can correct a record without committing it to the next step. Routing is its own deliberate action when you're ready • Locks look after themselves. Aeon takes the lock the moment you change a field and releases it when you save. Idle for five minutes and you get a countdown with the option to keep it; about a minute later it releases on its own. Close your laptop and it clears after roughly thirty seconds • You're never looking at a stale record. A viewing indicator shows who has the request open, stacked if several people do, and the moment a colleague saves you get a note telling you what they changed • Batch process columns are yours to set. Title, call number, photoduplication status, scheduled date — pick what's useful and leave out what isn't. This one came in through customer feedback.

Recordings and registration for next webinar in the first comment 👇

09/18/2026

Atlas Systems is a proud sponsor of the 2026 Council of State Archivists (CoSA) Annual Meeting!

We'll be in Columbia, South Carolina, September 23–25, at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History — and we'd love to see you there. As a 2026 CoSA Sustainer, we're committed to supporting state and territorial archives all year long.

Stop by the Atlas Systems exhibit table to talk with our team and see the tools built for archives: Aeon — request & workflow management for archives, with the brand-new Aeon 7 staff web client now live in the browser, ArchivesSpace — trusted hosting and support for your archival management system, Cardea — an early look at our newest solution for badging and user access management

Come find us in the exhibit area — we can't wait to connect with the CoSA community.

09/09/2026

The Aeon 7 staff web client is officially live!

The special collections workflow your team relies on — requests, reading room management, and reporting — now runs entirely in your browser, with nothing for staff to install.

Aeon 7 has full feature parity with the desktop client, plus some big additions:
✅ Built to WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards — with dark mode
✅ Works on any device, from desktop to reading-room tablet
✅ Native single sign-on (SAML 2.0 & OpenID Connect)
✅ Support Access — a new, more secure way for Atlas to help you

Explore the docs at https://docs.atlas-sys.com/aeon, and join our launch webinar on Thursday, Sept 10 at 3pm ET (no install required): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aeon-7-staff-web-client-release-webinar-series-tickets-1999117865350

Six free sessions to get your staff ready for the Aeon 7.0 staff web client.

09/01/2026

Aeon 7 has a release date — Wednesday, September 9!

Katie Gillespie — Special Collections & Archives Program Manager — announced the date at the August Aeon Users Group, along with demos of the latest features. A few highlights from the meeting:

• Multi-factor authentication is on by default. Every staff user sets it up on first login with an authenticator app.
• Single sign-on is now available for staff accounts. SAML or OIDC, configured in Customization Manager, with a test option so you can check it before rolling it out to everyone.
• Administrators can email a staff member an invitation to connect their existing Aeon account to SSO, and Aeon links the two automatically.
• Your existing field customizations come across. There is a field customizations table in Customization Manager with an option to import what you've already built, so you're not rebuilding it.
• Client addons now come from a catalog inside Customization Manager rather than files you track down and install — you pick one from the list and switch it on. Among them, Batch Field Updates sets a request field during batch processing instead of one transaction at a time, and writes a history entry recording what changed.
• New documentation goes live with the release. Release webinars start September 10 on alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays, and drop-in office hours start September 14.
• Two Aeon institutions already running the release candidate walked through how they're planning to roll the new web client out to all their staff.

Recording, and registration for the next session & release webinars, in the first comment 👇

What's the first thing you'll want to check out once Aeon 7 is on your server?

08/26/2026

DOI isn't mapped in your ILLiad OpenURL table by default. And mapping it is only the first step to leveraging this field for more powerful workflows.

It also needs to come through from your database, be present in your web request form, and be added to your staff layout before you'll see it anywhere useful. Kerry Keegan walked through that and a lot more at this month's ILLiad Users Group, all on OpenURL.

Kerry reminds us that if your ILLiad web pages work, your OpenURL already works too. What's left is tweaking — some in the originating database, some in ILLiad's OpenURL Mapping table.

Recording, and registration for the next session, in the first comment 👇

Which resolver has challenged you the most — Alma, EDS, WorldCat, or something else?

08/19/2026

It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our colleague and friend, Angela Mott. Angela was a beloved member of the Atlas family, and so many of you had the pleasure of working with her over the years.

Her kindness, dedication, and care for the people she served touched everyone who knew her. She will be deeply missed.

Our thoughts are with Angela's family and loved ones.

08/13/2026

Get an early look at the new Ares web client!

The browser-based Ares client keeps taking shape, and our product team is pulling back the curtain on the latest additions — the tools that help your staff organize, validate, and move through requests faster.

In this live session we'll walk through:
✅ Custom queues and configurable layouts
✅ Course and user validation
✅ Queue processing with filtering
✅ A preview of features still in development — see them before they're released
✅ Live Q&A with the Atlas Systems Ares team

Because these features are still in development, it's also your chance to weigh in and help shape them before they ship.

🗓️ Thursday, August 27 · 2–3 PM ET · Online

Reserve your spot -

Join us for an early look at the latest additions to the new browser-based Ares client — custom queues, layouts, validation, and more.

08/05/2026

Day 1 of ARA 2026 is underway, and I'm set up at Table 11 for the next three days. Come and say hello for:

A walkthrough of Aeon — the benefits, the workflows, and where it fits into a special collections service.

A look at Cardea — our new cloud-based access control platform, purpose-built for libraries, archives, and museums.

ArchivesSpace conversations — hosting, migration, implementation, and how to make an open-source description layer work well for your team.

Whether you're evaluating your options, or just curious what an integrated archives ecosystem can look like — stop by for a chat.

07/31/2026

We are excited to announce that Atlas Systems, Inc. will be exhibiting at ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2026 on July 28 – August 1, 2026. 🎉🎉 Preview Aeon v.7, discuss hosting services for ArchivesSpace, and meet Cardea. - via Event Platform