August 19, 2010
Emeryville, CA—DeKalb County Public Library has selected Encore and will implement Innovative’s discovery platform with the SirsiDynix Horizon™ ILS.
Says Tamika Strong, Automation Services Coordinator: “Our library has been looking at various enhancement tools over the last few years that would improve our patrons’ searching experience when they use our online catalog. We were [...]
January 27, 2010
Syracuse University is now live with Encore Discovery™. The library has implemented Innovative’s discovery services platform as a front-end to their existing Voyager™ ILS provided by Ex Libris, Ltd.
Says Library Project Manager Terriruth Carrier: “Students have adjusted to a new model of interacting with information in the form of social networking tools and [...]
Mutual Customers to Benefit
January 16, 2010
Innovative Interfaces announced today that it has entered into a technology partnership with EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) bringing together two of the library community’s most well-regarded vendors. This partnership will offer integrated access to a library’s own EBSCOhost® subscriptions through the library’s Innovative Encore Discovery™ platform. The agreement also allows Encore [...]
The Explore Related Searches feature in Encore leverages authority data in your library’s catalog to help users get to truly helpful information quickly and efficiently. By leveraging this rich data in the library’s catalog, Encore presents users with reliable and useful “places-to-go-next” in a search session. This combination of discovery features and the sophisticated metadata [...]
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 [...]
Encore Discovery works with any integrated library system. For example, Fairfield University (CT) wanted a next-generation discovery tool without having to change their ILS. Virtually overnight, they transformed the user experience while retaining their current technology platform. Same data, different front-end, real results!