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March 2001

Major consortia select Innovative solutions

Two co-operative library systems in the US have chosen Innovative’s products to co-ordinate resource provision to a variety of libraries.  In Pennsylvania, the INN-Reach product links 2,500 libraries of all kinds and systems - an interesting example of interoperability in action.  CLIC in Minnesota is a more conventional consortium sharing a Millennium system.

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Emeryville, California, USA – March 2001

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has chosen both the Millennium library automation software and the INN-Reach resource-sharing system for the 2,500 school, public, academic, and special libraries who are members of the ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA Database project.

 “The selection of Innovative's INN-Reach system extends the vision of the ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA Database to include real-time updating of holdings by participants,” said Joe Scorza, Executive Director of the Health Sciences Libraries Consortium.

“Pennsylvania has chosen a robust platform for a joint database which is also flexible, sophisticated, and able to accommodate a ‘virtual’ catalogue alternative at the same time.” The system will be capable of supporting over 1,000 simultaneous users and will be using Oracle database software.  ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA, managed by the Health Sciences Libraries Consortium in Philadelphia, is a co-ordinated effort to automate library services throughout the Commonwealth. Taking advantage of this investment in library resources, the ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA database provides easy access for library users to materials in collections across the state.

 Innovative’s INN-Reach system will replace the previous union catalogue, which was updated and distributed annually.  “INN-Reach will offer library users throughout Pennsylvania simple and convenient Webbased access to materials in the union catalogue.  ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA will be able to provide improved access and resource-sharing,” said Sandy Westall, Innovative Vice President of Resource Sharing Services.  Pennsylvania State Librarian and Deputy Secretary of Education Gary Wolfe said, “We chose Innovative following a competitive bid process and a thorough technical review because they presented the best technological solutions to our requirements.  Our primary goal is to improve resource sharing among all types of libraries, and Innovative’s Web-based solutions will allow us to provide greatly improved information services to the people of Pennsylvania.”

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.  Requests and fulfilment’s are processed in circulation transactions which are communicated in real-time between the libraries.  A project of the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA began in 1985 with a vision of providing a union catalogue across the State of Pennsylvania.  It was the first and remains the largest state-wide union catalogue of all types of libraries. When libraries join the database, they must sign an agreement to share their resources state-wide. Therefore, when a Pennsylvanian finds a book or other material in the database that he or she wants, the library that owns that book has made a commitment to share it. As of Autumn 2000, ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA’s shared union catalogue offered library users over 35 million holdings, approximately 5.6 million unique records, and included 97% of Pennsylvania's school districts. “We are very excited to partner with ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA on such an ambitious project.  Innovative’s systems are well-suited to these large-scale projects; this represents one of several state-wide multi-type consortia that Innovative works with, including Colorado's Prospector, Ohio's OhioLINK, and Oregon's Orbis,” said Jerry Kline, Innovative President and CEO.

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Emeryville, California, USA – March 2001 Innovative Interfaces, a leader in library technology, announced that Co-operating Libraries In Consortium (CLIC), a consortium of eight academic libraries in St.  Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, will install the Web- and Java™-based Millennium library automation system.

 “CLIC recognises that one of the major areas of co-operation is an integrated automation system.  It allows the sharing of staff responsibilities, enhances resource sharing, and fosters joint collection development among our institutions. The Consortium, including staff on all levels, took more than a year to analyse automation systems on the market.  The result of this process was the selection of Millennium as the best system to meet the needs of our users and staff,” said Chris Olson, Executive Director of CLIC.

CLIC is a non-profit federation of libraries that includes eight private colleges and universities: Augsburg College, Bethel College, College of St. Catherine, Concordia University-St. Paul, Hamline University, Macalester College, Northwestern College, and the University of St.  Thomas. CLIC’s shared catalogue includes 1,000,058 bibliographic records, 1,933,164 holdings, and serves approximately 64,175 patrons.  Incorporated by the college presidents in 1969, CLIC has been working for more than 30 years to improve library resources and services through co-operative efforts. Olson added, “As we move into the next generation of automation, the library staff are excited about the possibilities of Innovative. 

The Millennium system will give staff SQL access to the database which will enable highly customised reports and interconnection with other SQL-based systems. It’s clear that Innovative is moving in the right direction by incorporating new technologies into the system and co-operating with other vendors, such as netLibrary™.”

“We are delighted to be partnering with CLIC on this great project,” noted Jerry Kline, Innovative’s President and CEO.  “These eight academic libraries of St.  Paul and Minneapolis have been a co-operative for many years. We hope to continue to improve our products by listening to their experiences, in addition to delivering to CLIC state-of-the-art solutions already used by thousands of consortia libraries.”

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