Systems: III Encore

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 [...]

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New breed of OPACs

Rummaging around the web – as you do – I came across a company called Endeca offering new ways of searching and presenting data in a whole range of industries. This led me to look at the NCSU catalogue and I liked what I saw. Easy searching and results presented in a way that allows [...]

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JIBSUG seminar

Last year Kathy, Alain and I attended a JIBSUG seminar on web 2.0. I just wanted to list a ppt from talks I found interesting. It was a talk by Dave Pattern, who I believe is a computer scientist at Huddersfield.
Making the catalogue a good place to be – lipstick, cowbells and serendipity, Dave [...]

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