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by Sandrine Stamm 6 min read

Company Ownership

The Bibliotheca Group is financially backed by One Equity Partners, a division of JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Documents or articles featuring bibliotheca

Breeding, Marshall. Bibliotheca Makes Organizational Changes. November 2018. Smart Libraries Newsletter. Bibliotheca, a large consolidated company offering self-service, material handling, and e-book technologies to libraries, announced organizational changes to its North American operations.

News Announcements

September 2, 2021. Hearst Media magazines joins NewsStand catalogue. Bibliotheca announced that Hearst Media, one of the world's largest publishers of magazine media across all platforms, has joined its ever-growing NewsStand catalogue.

Corporate Chronology

Nov 09, 2015 One Equity Partners acquires 3M Library Systems and merges company into bibliotheca#N#3M announced that it has completed the sale of assets for the majority of its remaining global Library Systems business outside of North America to a fund advised by One Equity Partners.

Early life

Tom Henke was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and started out throwing every night to his father, who caught his pitches while sitting on a five-gallon bucket. "Every kid should have a dad like that", Henke said. He grew up in Taos, Missouri and attended Blair Oaks High School. After high school, Henke played at East Central Junior College.

Career

Henke was drafted on June 5, 1979, by the Seattle Mariners in the 20th round of the 1979 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign. On January 11, 1980, he was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the first round (24th pick) of the 1980 Major League Baseball draft (January Secondary) but again did not sign.

Career milestones

Over his 14-year career, Henke was named to the All-Star team twice: 1987, when he led the American League with 34 saves and 62 games finished, and 1995, his last season, and only season in the National League. He also won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award in 1995.

Personal

Henke lives on his 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) farm in Taos, Missouri, with his family: wife Kathy and children Linsay, Ryan, Kim, and Amanda (who has Down syndrome ).

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