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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
“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 [...]
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.