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Endeavor doubles development and celebrates 800
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As another successful year ends, Endeavor celebrates 800 customers and plans expansion to meet the demand. Victoria State, Australia, chooses Voyager to replace Dynix.
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Sarah Lawrence College is 800th Voyager Customer
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DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, Jan. 8, 2001
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Endeavor Information Systems announced today that Sarah Lawrence College, the 2000 Time Magazine/
Princeton Review Liberal Arts College of the Year, is the 800th customer to install the Voyager integrated library management system.
A nationally recognized leader in the integration of the arts in a liberal arts education, the main Sarah Lawrence College research library, its music and slide libraries and its archives will migrate from PALS to Voyager in spring of 2001.
"Sarah Lawrence College has a distinctive approach to education which requires students to do extensive research from their first year on,
often with the depth of graduate level work" explained library director Sha Fagan. "In addition to our 250,000 carefully chosen volumes, students need to access electronic, full-text databases.
The Voyager system will enable us to access these resources effectively," she explained.
"Because nearly every course at Sarah Lawrence includes independent study projects where students work one-on-one with their professors, we
need the freedom to customize the system for individual faculty members and students," Fagan said. "For example, students can check out items for a whole semester, faculty for a whole year. We
had to spend a lot of time finessing our old system and doing workarounds for this. With this system we are also planning to link class syllabi and related readings with on-line texts," she continued.
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State Library of Victoria selects Voyager to enhance Access
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DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, Jan. 9, 2001: The State Library of Victoria will install Voyager as its
new integrated library management system, to provide improved customer access to the library's catalogue and indexes.
The State Library of Victoria is the state's major research institution and services 1.7 million users
onsite and 5.4 million users via its website. It holds over 2.5 million collection items and over 5,300 linear metres (5.3kms) of manuscripts and ephemera.
Anne Beaumont, Application Support Manager at the library described Voyager as "a complete
digital library solution." "One of the major advantages of the product is its superior handling of a
range of digital file formats, particularly images. The State Library of Victoria has an extensive multimedia catalogue with over 160,000 digitized images which will be integrated immediately
into the new system which will provide thumbnail displays alongside catalogue entries."
The library will introduce a range of categories of user registration categories providing a range
of benefits such as access to free online full-text periodicals (via EBSCO host), a streamlined facility for copying, delivery, interlibrary loans and eventually e-commerce.
"Remote users will eventually have the ability to carry out research remotely online, identify
resources within a global network, order copies of articles for direct delivery or request interlibrary loans for specific dates and times."
Voyager will supersede the library's Dynix system, which is at the end of its life cycle.
Ms Beaumont said that Voyager "is a mature product that is being continuously developed." "It is
built on an Oracle relational database which is the preferred platform for the Library's existing human resource and finance systems. Standardizing the operating system (Solaris) and DBMS
(Oracle) makes the most efficient use of expensive support resources."
Ms Beaumont said that it is an advantage that Endeavor has extensive experience in migrating
Dynix sites across to the new system "making the transition process technically low-risk. We expect the transition process to take only six-months, so users will see vast improvements in a
very short time."
"Endeavor is very excited to be working with the renowned collections and strong history of the
State Library of Victoria," explained Jane Burke, Endeavor's President and CEO. "The State Library of Victoria has a forward-looking vision in selecting the Voyager system to provide users
true access to information, regardless of location or format."
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Development staff to double at Endeavor
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DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, Dec. 28, 2000: Endeavor Information Systems announced today
multiple initiatives for 2001, including doubling the size its development staff.
The increase in staff will enable Endeavor to continue its success with the Voyager integrated
library management system and the ENCompass digital collection management system. The workforce expansion allows Endeavor to continue new initiatives that set the pace for the library technology marketplace.
"This growth is prompted by the ever changing needs of our customers, the availability of new
technology, and largely, by the strong support Endeavor has found with our new partner, Elsevier Science," explained Jane Burke, Endeavor's President and CEO.
"We believe strongly in the technological talent in Chicago. It is unfortunate that the Chicagoland
technology marketplace experienced so many ups and downs in 2000," Burke continued. "There are several good companies no longer in business, but Endeavor is proving to truly be a
worldwide technology leader in our industry. We have built on a tradition of experience, technological savvy and leadership, and had the opportunity in 2000 to find a partner that
believes in our new technologies and understands we require an expansion in our talented staff to complete our goals."
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