Encore » Technology http://encoreforlibraries.com It's All Right Here Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Encore 4.0 in General Release http://encoreforlibraries.com/2010/09/03/encore-4-0-in-general-release http://encoreforlibraries.com/2010/09/03/encore-4-0-in-general-release#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:22:46 +0000 Spenser Thompson http://encoreforlibraries.com/?p=1013 We are pleased to announce that Encore 4.0 is now in general release! The new features include:

  • Integration with Millennium Course Reserves
  • Integration with Millennium Media & Electronic Reserves
  • Integration with Millennium Program Registration Event Calendar
  • Library staff ability to promote individual titles in RightResult™ ranking
  • Ability to search by call number
  • Expanded local links and branding Integration with Meebo™ online
  • reference widget
  • Inclusion of Google Books™ preview
  • New community comments feature

All Encore Synergy customers will enjoy all of these new features plus Deep Article Integration. If you have any questions about Encore 4.0 or Encore Synergy features please write the Encore Team.

Trademarks: Google Books™, Google; Meebo™, Meebo, Inc.;
RightResult™, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

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Encore has been designed on the principle that users should have a single search box that discovers all types of information offered by the library. Articles are a key component of the information libraries offer, from scholarly research sources, which command the majority of academic library budgets, to the up-to-the-minute news sources available to public library patrons.

With Encore Synergy, the Encore Discovery architecture has been extended to fully integrate next-generation article discovery technology. Users are seamlessly presented with an article “preview” and can move effortlessly between the local collection discovery mode to the article mode, and back again. The user interface is familiar to Encore users but now applied to article searching, with provider-supplied relevance optimized for the article data and facets such as full-text and peer reviewed.

Encore Synergy enhances the database provider’s discovery tools with local library features, such as the tag cloud and “Did You Mean?” features derived from local indexing. The library’s unique, mission-specific metadata continues to offer guidance and search pathways through the ocean of web information.

“Deep Article Integration” is how I refer to how Encore Synergy brings articles to a single search box model. Unlike any other product, Encore Synergy includes articles by leveraging local metadata, streaming live content, adding discovery tools, and providing maximum flexibility in a user’s discovery session. In short, when the goal is broad, simple discovery of all kinds of content Encore Synergy brings in articles the smart way.

]]> http://encoreforlibraries.com/2010/06/22/article-discovery-with-encore-synergy/feed 0 Encore Webinar Series http://encoreforlibraries.com/2010/04/15/library-discovery-webinars http://encoreforlibraries.com/2010/04/15/library-discovery-webinars#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:49:02 +0000 Spenser Thompson http://encoreforlibraries.com/?p=990 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 in Encore and, most recently, Unlocking the Full Power of Your Library with Encore Synergy.

If you want to learn more about the Encore Webinar Series please write the Encore Team.

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The launch of the Encore API is the next step in the vision established when Encore was first launched. Encore can offer libraries sleek end-user discovery capabilities, but is also designed to leverage and liberate library data.

Betsy Graham, Vice President of Product Management, Innovative Interfaces

]]> http://encoreforlibraries.com/2009/01/15/liberate-your-data%e2%80%94soa-based-design-helps-libraries-help-themselves/feed 0 ILS Independent/Millennium Optimized http://encoreforlibraries.com/2009/01/15/ils-independentmillennium-optimized http://encoreforlibraries.com/2009/01/15/ils-independentmillennium-optimized#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:24:23 +0000 Andrea Silvestri http://encoreforlibraries.com/?p=83 ILS independent

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!

Encore just felt right when searching it. We knew that its elegant design would elicit the same enthusiasm from our patrons.

Susan Marcin
Head of Digital Services & Technology Planning
Fairfield University (CT)

Millennium Optimized

When paired with Innovative’s own ILS, Millennium, Encore Discovery offers functionality that other discovery tools do not: real-time, smart connections to library system data. Encore can display critical information to users about current activity in their accounts as well as providing personalized features such as community ratings, reviews, tagging, and My Lists. The direct connection to Millennium also means that all catalog and circulation information is up-to-date including current status of materials. When Millennium-optimized, Encore has a “right now” view of the library’s collection at all times.

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