On Wednesday, April 15th Barbara Herzog from Innovtive will be here to give a demo of their Encore product.  The demo will take place in LIB 145 at 10:00 a.m.  We saw a demo of this product some time ago but it has evolved a good bit since then.

This is just one of several products we are looking at which will enhance discovery of the resources we have to offer.

Here’s the list from yesterday’s presentation, so that you can play around with these on your own.

Encore (from III) at Georgetown University – scoll down to the Encore search box

AquaBrowser (from Serial Solutions) Univeristy of Oklahoma – go to BOSS, Colby-Bates-Bowdoin test site.

Primo (from ExLibris) - Vanderbilt University

Endeca – North Carolina State University

WorldCat Local -University of Washington

Enterprise (SirsiDynix) - Cherry Hill Public Library

Vufind (open source) Carli consortium Illinois

Koha (open source, this is an ILS not just a OPAC overlay) Arcadia University

Scriblio (open source developed by) Plymouth State University

Blacklight (open source developed by) University of Virginia

If you want to read more about this topic here’s a bibliography that I created for a session at this year’s Music Library Association conference, and a checklist of questions created by Vassar Music Librarian, Sarah Canino.