These updates focus on three areas our customers consistently prioritise: better control of digital resources, more efficient workflows, and improved discovery for users. Here is a high-level look at what’s new across the platforms.
Liberty Digital
For legal, government, and corporate knowledge teams
Recent Liberty Digital updates strengthen how teams manage digital collections and streamline cataloguing workflows. Key highlights include:
- Electronic Resource Management (ERM): Track subscriptions, licences, and access rights with expiry alerts and dashboard visibility.
- AI-assisted cataloguing: Automatically generate metadata and image descriptions to speed up cataloguing tasks.
- Enhanced federated search and sideloading: Improve access to external resources and databases that sit outside traditional discovery tools.
- Improved administration controls: Flexible user role management and new reporting tools for monitoring records and storage.
These updates help knowledge teams manage growing hybrid collections while reducing manual work.
illumin
For research and knowledge management teams
Updates to illumin focus on improving the way organisations track and deliver research requests. Recent improvements include:
- Expanded email attachment searching: Makes it easier to locate research correspondence and supporting documents.
- More detailed request audit trails: Provides better visibility of request history and changes.
- Additional priority options: Supports more accurate tracking of research deadlines.
These changes help research teams maintain clearer oversight of requests and service delivery.
Aurora Product Suite
For public libraries
The Aurora platform continues to evolve with major improvements to both its management tools and discovery experience. Key developments include:
- Aurora Astria: the new management interface for the Aurora Product Suite, providing a web-based successor to Aurora Desktop – which brings core circulation, cataloguing, and user management into a modern SaaS environment.
- Aurora Montage v2: Delivers a fully responsive discovery interface designed for mobile-first public access.
- Improved security and system integrations: Includes modern authentication and direct API integrations for real-time data synchronisation.
- Enhanced discovery visibility: Helps catalogue records surface more effectively through search engines.
Together, these updates support public libraries delivering accessible, modern digital services to their communities.
Explore the Platforms
Each of Softlink’s platforms is designed to support a different type of information environment:
- Liberty Digital – managing complex library collections
- illumin – coordinating research and knowledge requests
- Aurora Product Suite – delivering modern public library services
If you would like to learn more about the latest updates or see how these platforms support your organisation, explore the solutions or contact us to book a demonstration with the Softlink team.