The Culture and Media Ministry of the Government of Catalonia (GENCA) is now live with the Millennium ILS and Encore Discovery. GENCA oversees the Catalonian Public Reading System, which covers regions of Girona, Tarragona, Lleida, and Terres de l’Ebre, as well as six towns in the Barcelona region. Among the largest library services in Europe, GENCA has over 2.3 million registered users.

Encore Discovery now provides access to the catalog data of 142 Catalan public libraries. Branded as “Argus,” the new interface provides access to 4 million items and contains 700,000 bibliographic records. GENCA has posted a promotional video about the launch of Encore at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZuvRRy_pzY.

About the Catalonian Public Reading System

The Catalonian Public Reading System covers the entirety of the public library services of this European region. The Catalonian public libraries are managed by the town councils and receive support at different levels by the provincial councils, the district councils, and the Catalan government. Serving a population of over 7 million, the Catalonian Public Reading System is one of the biggest regional library services in Europe and circulates over 14 million items each year. The System offers more than 11 million items to the region and employs a staff of 1,500.

De La Salle University (Philippines), European University Institute (Italy), Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), and University of Granada (Spain) are live with Encore Discovery. The Encore customer base currently spans eighteen countries including Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, the US, and more.

Innovative announced today that the development of Encore Reporter, the product that brings the power and ease of Encore Discovery to library-business information, now benefits from the participation of a group of academic libraries that has grown to eight. These libraries are focusing on further developing the features of Encore Reporter that provide collection- and cost-analysis reports to library staff. The academic libraries partnering with Innovative are Ballarat University (Australia); Michigan State University; Stetson School of Law (FL); University of Cadiz (Spain); University of Nebraska, Lincoln; University of Sydney (Australia); University of Wollongong (Australia), and Washington College of Law at American University (DC).

Encore Reporter provides multi-dimensional and visually elegant reports on key performance indicators, operational statistics, patron and material usage analysis, print and e-resource usage, collection development, and more. Encore Reporter empowers library staff to make more informed decisions, which is more important than ever in a challenging service and economic environment.

Says Billie Jo Kaufman of Washington College of Law at American University (DC): “As a Chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Libraries, I know it is important to get the right statistics, and get them easily, in the format that funders and other organizations want. What Encore Reporter will do is to present our data and allow us to see it from a number of angles that will give us more and better information. Essentially, we will get more out of the data that we put in the Millennium system, in terms of content, and how it is used.”

The group of academic partners complements the existing group of eight public libraries involved in the Encore Reporter development project.

Updated: November 12, 2009

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Innovative announced today that its Encore Services team recently installed the product at three libraries: Sacramento Public Library (CA), University of Scranton (PA), and University of Wollongong Library (Australia).

Innovative announced today that its Encore Services team recently installed the product at ten academic and law school libraries: Azusa Pacific University (CA); De La Salle University (Philippines); Douglas College (Canada); Marquette University and Marquette University Law School (WI); Saginaw Valley State University (MI); Siena College (NY); Southern Nazarene University (OK); University of Nebraska at Kearney; and University of Wyoming.

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Innovative announced today that eleven academic libraries across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America have gone live with Encore: Andrews University (MI), British Columbia Institute of Technology (Canada), Cal Poly Pomona (CA), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (MN), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China), St. Edward’s University (TX), Universidad de Cadiz (Spain), University of Tulsa (OK), and University of Wollongong (Australia).

About Encore

The Encore discovery services platform transforms how users uncover the rich and varied resources the library has to offer by uniting content, community, and discovery. No matter which ILS a library uses or its level of development resources or staff expertise Encore provides a reliable solution that makes it easy to offer the latest information technologies. At its core is the Encore Framework developed using modern, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software design principles. The Framework supports a suite of robust applications and Web Service offerings that can be tailored to meet the needs of any library. What’s more, Encore Services provides a dedicated “Pit Crew” that backs the product with single-day, in-library installation, hosted options (SaaS), and more. With Encore, it’s all right here.

Find out more about Encore Reporter.

Emeryville, CA—Innovative announced today that its Encore Services team recently installed the product at three libraries outside the US: British Columbia Institute of Technology (Canada), University of Hong Kong, and University of Wollongong (Australia).