INDUSTRY News

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ALA SELLS BUILDING After putting its headquarters complex in River North on the market for sale last September, the American Library Association reports it has sold the buildings at 50 E. Huron and 40 E. Huron Street and will relocate its Chicago operations to Michigan Plaza, located at 225 N. Michigan Ave., in the spring of 2020. ALA did not disclose the buyer or financial terms of the sale transaction (ala.org). IMF GOES FREE The International Monetary Fund made its elibrary platform free to all users. More than 21,000 publications, going back to 1946, are available for online reading, downloading, printing, or sharing (elibrary.imf.org). EZPROXY ANALYTICS OCLC introduced EZproxy Analytics, a turnkey analytics service that enables libraries using EZproxy-hosted access and authentication services to transform data into actionable insights, drive more informed decisions, and demonstrate significant impact. EZproxy Analytics automatically manages the entire analytics process-from data storage, extraction, and enrichment to reporting and visualization-making it easy to better understand and communicate e-resource ROI and to detect unauthorized e-resource usage (oclc.org). SHARE THE WEALTH Wealth-X announced it added 130,000 wealthy individuals in Europe to its proprietary global database, increasing coverage in that region by 350% (wealth-x.com).