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Bilbao Council select Millennium
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La Biblioteca Foral de Bizkaia, the library of the Biscay Regional Council in Bilbao, Spain,
has chosen the Millennium library automation system from Innovative Interfaces to replace its current Dobis Libis system. The implementation process is underway, and the new
Millennium system will run on a Sun platform.
Clotilde Olaran, Library Director at Biblioteca Foral, said: “The selection of Millennium was
based on many aspects, not least its impressive functionality and extensive development. Millennium’s multi-lingual capabilities will enable us to provide access to the OPAC in both
the Basque language, Euskera, and Spanish, and its compliance with international standards such as ANSI x-12, EDI, MARC21, AACR2, Z39.50 and ISO 2709, were also key
factors in the decision. We also found the large number of world-wide installations of Innovative’s systems very encouraging.”
Sra. Olaran continued: “We were impressed with the level of experience held by Innovative
staff, and also by the professionalism shown throughout the process. We look forward to working with staff from Innovative’s Madrid office, and also its headquarters in California.”
Biblioteca Foral de Bizkaia is part of the Department of Culture and was the first public
library in this region. It is now one of the most prestigious Basque libraries in the world, and is consulted by researchers from many other countries. Since its foundation in 1894,
donations and acquisitions have produced a rich and impressive collection of around 200,000 volumes; the Basque serials collection itself being of particular importance. As the
Biblioteca Foral’s valuable historic collection includes archive and visual information, the library will also benefit greatly from Millennium’s image management capabilities.
Innovative Interfaces is a leader in providing Web-based automated systems to libraries.
Innovative’s library automation systems are installed with more than 1,000 customers in 26 countries around the world. The company is headquartered in Emeryville, California, with  offices in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Canada, China,
Taiwan and Thailand. Millennium is Innovative’s Web-based, openplatform system that provides full and integrated functionality. The Java™ interface offers staff and users an
intuitive, easy-to-use, and platform-independent system.
The Biblioteca Foral de Bizkaia web-site can be found at http://www.bizkaia.net..
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Millennium at South African Libraries Consortium
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Bristol, England / Emeryville, California, USA – February 2001
Innovative Interfaces, a leading supplier of Web-based library automation systems, will
supply its Millennium system to the South East Academic Libraries System (SEALS), situated in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Once installed, the SEALS
Millennium system will run on one central server and be shared by the seven member libraries. The consortium will have a combined catalogue of over a million titles, and will
share 225 staff user licences. Millennium will be replacing the incumbent URICA, Erudite, ILS 2000 and ITS systems.
Philip Clarke, SEALS Project Manager, and Executive Director of its governing body,
ECHEA (Eastern Cape Higher Education Association), said: “It quickly became obvious to the evaluators that the Millennium system was clearly superior to the library systems
currently in operation in SEALS libraries. Millennium has sophisticated searching facilities that are very appealing to clients; the Web-based, user-friendly modules, in particular, are
very impressive. All of the modules are fully integrated with one another, while the systems interface easily with external database providers, thereby enabling fast and seamless
transfer of data to and from bibliographic utilities and book and journal vendors. Another major advantage is the facility whereby virtually any data can be extracted from the system
for management information purposes without requiring the user to possess programming skills.”
Petros Demetriou, Business Manager at Innovative Interfaces, added: “Innovative is pleased
to be able to add the SEALS consortium of academic libraries to its expanding list of customers in the region. Innovative’s track record in timely and successful implementations
in South Africa was also a key factor in the selection of Millennium, and endorses our view that value-added services such as training, implementation and support are increasingly
important factors in system selection. As the libraries’ own customers become more sophisticated in their informational requirements, and demand fast, reliable and ‘around the
clock’ delivery, Millennium and Innovative will provide both the necessary technology and mature support services to meet these increased needs. We warmly welcome the
enthusiasm and commitment of the SEALS libraries, and look forward to a long and successful partnership with them.”
The South East Academic Libraries System (SEALS) was established during 1988 by
the constituent academic libraries as an informal academic library forum. SEALS became a formal academic library consortium during 1999, under the auspices of the
Eastern Cape Higher Education Association (ECHEA). The SEALS member libraries are: Border Technikon, Eastern Cape Technikon, University of Fort Hare, Port Elizabeth
Technikon, Rhodes University, University of Port Elizabeth and the University of Transkei.
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Emeryville, California – February 2001
Innovative Interfaces, a leading supplier of Web-based library solutions, will install its
Millennium library automation system at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Renee Jadushlever, Assistant Vice President for Library and Technology at Mills, said,
“Mills College Library conducted an extensive analysis of the major library automation
vendors. We chose Innovative for a variety of reasons. We were exceedingly impressed by
the functionality and flexibility of Millennium, in addition to the capability of providing a
shared interface for the Web-based catalogue and our Z39.50-compliant databases.
“Additionally, Millennium's ability to integrate digital images and audio files into the OPAC
was an attractive feature that will continue to make the library a central and indispensable information resource for the campus community.”
The 46,600 square-foot F.W. Olin Library of Mills College opened in 1990. The library's
collection currently holds 225,000 books, 815 print journals, over 60 databases, and also
provides electronic access to the full text of more than 1,500 journals. The library's special
collection includes 12,000 rare books and 10,000 manuscripts. Collection emphases include
nineteenth and twentieth century American and British literature, women's history, fine printing and binding, arts, dance, and music. Among the highlights in the Special
Collections are a first folio of Shakespeare and an original Mozart manuscript.
Founded in 1852, Mills is the oldest women's college west of the Rockies and the
only independent women's college in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mills enrols approximately 750 undergraduate women and 400 women and men at the graduate level.
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Denver Public joins INN-Reach consortium
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Emeryville, California – February 2001
Innovative Interfaces, a leader in Web-based information technology for libraries, announced
that the Denver Public Library, which operates a CARL system, has joined other libraries of
the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries' INN-Reach system. The Denver Public Library
is the first non-Innovative system to participate in an INN-Reach Direct Consortial Borrowing System.
INN-Reach, software developed by Innovative that connects the circulation modules of
participating libraries, allows users from one library to request and borrow materials
belonging to another library. Circulation transactions are communicated directly between the circulation modules of the independent systems.
The Colorado Alliance's system-Prospector is a unified catalogue of fourteen academic,
public, and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Using Innovative's INN-Reach
software, users have access to over thirteen million books, journals, sound recordings, films,
videotapes, and other materials held in these libraries. With a single search, INN-Reach
allows users to identify and borrow materials from various collections and have them delivered to their location.
The Denver Public Library's collection on Prospector includes 665,000 titles and 2 million
holdings. The library's approximately eleven million circulations each year are represented
by real-time updates on the Prospector catalogue. Moving up from a ranking of no. 14 in
1999 on Hennen's American Public Library Ratings index, the Denver Public Library was
ranked no. 1 in November 2000 as the top in the USA for public libraries in cities with a population of at least 500,000.
Rick Ashton, City Librarian of the Denver Public Library, said, "We have been testing shared
circulation between our library and a few others within the Alliance for the past six months.
On January 8, 2001, we went live with all sites. Our holdings are now available to all libraries
on Prospector, and our customers can browse and borrow items from any other library in the Alliance.
"INN-Reach allows us to keep up-to-the-minute with the holdings and circulation status of
each of our partner libraries on our central system. Customer-initiated requests have high
success and fill rates because of the availability of circulation status information and the automated messaging between the systems."
Sandy Westall, Innovative's Vice President of Resource Sharing Services, said, "Innovative
has successfully made direct consortial borrowing work between Innovative libraries,
beginning with our development of OhioLINK. We are now pleased to expand the capabilities
to non-Innovative libraries. Innovative can provide direct consortial borrowing solutions for all types and sizes of libraries, no matter what their ILS platform."
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