The Encore Webinar Series is a progression of online programs that addresses the key issues of library discovery. Presenters have included staff of the Encore Team and librarians from public and academic libraries examining how best to meet the challenge of library discovery in various contexts.
Past topics have included Integration of Local Content and Metadata [...]
Multnomah County Library “Pumps Up the Volume” on Reports
Northwest Oregon’s Multnomah County Library (MCL) operates in a "high-volume" environment. Not only in terms of the number of book volumes, but in the sheer volume of user activity. With up to 240,000 holds in the Millennium system at a given time, across 19 locations and 400 [...]
Joan Giesecke, Dean of Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Interim Director, University of Nebraska Press, wrote to us sharing great news about the way her campus has responded to the opportunity to participate in Encore Discovery:
“We have a new ethics center on campus that wanted a library collection for the center. Instead of trying to [...]
Back to The Land, Back to the Library
Encore is a modern tool for easy discovery of anything your library wants to offer, and, by extension, it is an easy way to promote aspects of the collections that are truly local. An particularly “earthy” example is St. Lawrence University Library’s (NY) pilot project to build, digitize [...]
July 30, 2009
Washington College of Law has become a development partner for Encore Reporter. An exciting new product from Innovative, Encore Reporter provides complete next-generation reporting on the data libraries need most. Encore Reporter provides dynamic and visually elegant reports on key performance indicators, operational statistics, patron and material usage analysis, print and e-resource usage, [...]
“When we launched Encore this June, we made Encore the default search for library catalog and e-journal materials and put the search box on our home page,” says Julianna Robbins, Digital Services Librarian at Long Beach Public Library. “We want to direct people to Encore because we think that is the best direction for discovery [...]
In late May, members of the Encore Team descended on Sunnyvale Public Library in Northern California for an Encore launch event. It’s a chance for library staff to see what their completed implementation looks like before it goes live and talk to team members responsible for installing and supporting the product.
About 40 staff members from [...]
Quinnipiac University’s Arnold Bernhard Library (CT) recently set an Encore record—and a goal. The record was a no-hitch Encore installation in two hours flat. The goal was more installations just like it. […]
If before October of 2008 you knew next to nothing about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Willa Cather collection, your lack of knowledge might be forgiven. Reference to that collection—over 200,000 items, including print, archival, and electronic media—was scattered across four different data platforms.