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C/W MARS Installs Millennium
Emeryville, California, USA – 9 June 1999
Largest multi-type library consortium in Massachusetts chooses Innovative
Innovative Interfaces Inc., a leader in information technology for libraries, will install a Millennium library automation system at C/W
MARS (Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing), the multi-type library consortium for Central and Western Massachusetts.
The new system, which will go live in September, 1999, will serve a consortium of 128 libraries in 140 locations. One of the largest
multi-type (publics, academics, schools, and special libraries) consortia in the country, C/W MARS has a collection of 1.6 million titles and 6 million items; the consortium conducts 7 million circulation
transactions per year.
"We chose Innovative Interfaces' Millennium as our next-generation system because of its robust functionality, user-friendliness, and use of
leading-edge technology," said C/W MARS Executive Director Joan Kuklinski. "We had a lengthy and rigorous selection process, relying on task forces for several functions: circulation, cataloguing, the
OPAC, acquisitions, serials, and so on. The overwhelming majority of our task forces rated Innovative first in its class.
And we also established a directors'-level committee that took part in the search; they found that Innovative had the most positive references."
Kuklinski added: "We were impressed with Innovative's track record with several types of libraries: publics, consortia, and large
systems. We were impressed by Innovative's incremental approach to incorporating new technology and the functionality it brings to resource sharing; we feel that Millennium is a system that can grow with
us."
"Serving libraries like C/W MARS is very much part of Innovative's mission," said Innovative President Jerry Kline.
"We're very happy to show how Innovative solutions-such as modular and incremental migration-can and do serve large multi-type consortia that consistently put Millennium functionality to the test. We're honoured to be able to enter into this partnership with C/W MARS."
The consortium will initially install the following modules: Database Management, Java™based Circulation, Java-based Serials, Cataloguing,
Reserve Book Room, Materials Booking, Inter-library Loan, and Acquisitions.
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