There seems to be quite a lot of discord on the SirsiD lists in the US Unicorn world regarding iLink, EPS (SirsiD’s portal frontend) and futures. A number of them have referred to something called Encore, from Innovative, which I’d not come across (http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html).
Looks like Encore is not included in III’s standard OPEC but has to be bought add-on even by existing III libraries. Looking at the examples below, it would appear the underlying OPACs remain available for advanced searching. Also perhaps slightly disappointing is Encore’s use of a tag cloud to refine, rather than extend, searching.
III’s Encore page isn’t particularly forthcoming but it does claim 50 recent sales, including to Aleph and Voyager libraries and to UK libraries. I couldn’t find any UK ones but there’s one in Nashville that looks quite interesting. Go to Nashville Public Library and tell me what you think. One at Westerville also looks pretty well out of the box.
Worth looking at?
damian311
Emma
Jeremy
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