FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 19, 2021

Contact: Eileen Lawrence
elawrence@coherentdigital.net
202-495-1084

Contact: Rob Karen
rob@waldolib.org

(914) 602-2548

Coherent Digital and WALDO Sign Agreement

Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) has signed an agreement to work with Coherent Digital LLC, a new publishing company created with the mission to “tame wild content and make it useful.”  WALDO will offer its member libraries all of Coherent Digital’s resources through special promotions—including Mindscape Commons and Policy Commons.

Rob Karen, Director of Procurement Services at WALDO, said, “For many years, we worked with Eileen Lawrence and the Coherent Digital editors and product developers at their previous company. They’re known for the quality of their products and for raising the bar through their innovations. We’re excited to be participating in the launch of their projects, which push the envelope of library tools further.”

“WALDO has always been an important partner for us, and we’re thrilled to continue working with the membership,” said Eileen Lawrence, VP of Sales and Chief Inspiration Officer at Coherent Digital. “We’ve launched resources that support remote teaching and learning in exciting ways—including immersive and interactive video and VR, and massive directories that link to important hidden content. Our mission is to deliver rare and hard-to-find items that bring a lot of value to libraries and grab students’ attention through new technologies.”

Coherent’s first projects are Policy Commons, delivering hard-to-find content from the world’s think tanks and policy institutes, and Mindscape Commons, the largest online collection of immersive and interactive video and VR content in mental health. Memberships are available now. Information about Policy Commons, and Mindscape Commons is on the company’s website.

 About Coherent Digital

Coherent Digital was founded in 2019 by industry veterans Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Toby Green, Eileen Lawrence, Pete Ciuffetti and others. We tame wild content and make it useful—so researchers can do their work, educators can teach, scholars can publish, and organizations can disseminate their knowledge to a global audience. Through Coherent, information is saved, uniquely tagged, stabilized, and made discoverable.

About WALDO

WALDO is a membership organization supporting the procurement and administration of electronic information services for libraries since 1982.