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  This month’s stories
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Millennium wins in Turkey and Sweden |
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Sweden's premier school of
business and economics to install the Millennium
Bristol, England / Emeryville, California, USA - 13 July 1999
The Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm) has signed a contract with Innovative Interfaces to install the Millennium library
automation system. Millennium will replace the library's current LIBERTAS system which was installed and supported for nearly 10 years by SLS Information Systems, now the European Division of Innovative Interfaces.
Eva Thomsoon-Roos, Chief Librarian, commented: "We have been looking for a new library system and particularly for a Web OPAC that could
satisfy the needs of our customers. Library use is swiftly changing from being based on the library as a tangible building, to a digital library focused on internet access. Our target users are students
within the area of Business and Economics, and this means that we are already serving customers who are accustomed to the internet and its graphical layouts. The challenge to the library lies in ensuring our
IT resources are visible in order to increase usage to an even higher degree.
This means developing not only an attractive interface, but also a database that fulfils the need for several types of information ranging from books and journal articles, to internet resources and full text material."
"Nearly 10 years of LIBERTAS have taught us to place confidence in SLS not least demonstrated in the support we have had from SLS
Scandinavia. Recent contacts and demonstrations of Millennium have led us to a similar feeling of confidence in Innovative Interfaces and helped us choose Millennium as our future system."
The Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm) is a private university which was founded in 1909 by royal statute, and
is the oldest Swedish institution of university standing which offers research-based educational programs in business administration and economics. The Library of the Stockholm School of Economics is the
National Resource Library for Business and Economics. The principal collections of electronic and printed resources are within the fields of business and economics, but law and statistics are also covered.
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Turkey's newest university selects Millennium
Bristol, England / Emeryville, California, USA - 29th July 1999
Sabanci University, a new private university located in Istanbul, has selected Millennium from Innovative Interfaces as the library management
system for its impressive Information Centre. The Millennium system will be installed in time for the first group of students when the university opens in October this year.
Sabanci University was meticulously planned from the very start, and aims to become a global reference point for educational innovation. Being a key component in these plans, the right choice of library management software was vital and the University has decided to install the full complement of Millennium modules, together with many of its special features including store and display images, electronic reserves, materials booking, self-issue and an Oracle RDBMS.
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Innovative have traditionally been supporters of the “proprietary is best for libraries” school of system suppliers.
Moving into mainstream Oracle solutions is a sign of the times and a response to the success of Aleph500 and Voyager - both Oracle based. Databases for libraries are discussed in technical briefings.
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"We believe that Sabanci University, with its new physical environment, faculty, staff and students, combined with the
Information Centre's facilities, information resources and service philosophy, will become a world university. We also believe that another new addition, the Millennium library
system, will provide us with an excellent window to access the entire world in terms of information storage and retrieval", said Hilmi Celik, Director of the Information Centre at Sabanci University.
Mr Celik continued, "Millennium was chosen by the University Information Centre as a next generation system
with its integrated modules, full support of the Turkish language and character set, electronic imaging capabilities and use of leading-edge technologies. We are excited at
being able to have Java(tm)-based modules on an Oracle platform in the near future, giving us the opportunity to use open-platform client-server architecture. These are next century
library automation solutions in the present."
"The relationship between an institution and its library management software is a long term
one, and our exact definition and expectation is "a tool that has answers to all existing questions" and one which "works pro-actively to find answers to the questions yet
unasked". We absolutely believe that Innovative will be thinking of solutions in advance of our future requirements, helping us to create a better service environment and allowing
access to every available piece of information all over the world."
Sabanci University, whose campus construction is due for completion in September this
year, lies approximately 20 miles from the centre of Istanbul and will open for the first time in October. Student in-take has been deliberately restricted to 253 for the first year, and
the university is expected to grow by around 400 students per year until it reaches its' desired capacity of 3,000 by the end of the 5th year, 2004. The Information Centre has a
seating capacity for 500 users and a shelving system for 300,000 volumes, the total floor space is 9,500 square metres.
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More on Sabanci University
Hilmi Celik, Director, Information Centre
Tel: +90 212 292 4939 ext 1201
Email: hilmi@sabanciuniv.edu.tr
www.sabanciuniv.edu.tr
Innovative Interfaces
Bob Radford, Business Manager
Tel: +44 (0)117 975 1024
Email: bob.radford@iii-europe.com
Gill Carter
European Marketing Co-ordinator
3 York Court, Upper York Street
Bristol BS2 8QF, United Kingdom
tel: +44 117 975 1025 fax: +44 117 924 4367
www.iii-europe.com
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Innovative Interfaces
in top 500 USA VARs.
Emeryville, July 19, 1999—VARBusiness magazine has once again ranked Innovative Interfaces as one of its top 500 VAR (Value-Added
Reseller)/integrators in North America. Innovative joins companies such as IBM Global, GE Capital IT Solutions, and Compaq in the prestigious reseller industry ranking.
"It’s an honor to be included in the VARBusiness 500 once again," said Jerry Kline, President and CEO of Innovative Interfaces.
“Innovative is the highest-ranked company that exclusively serves the library community, and it is gratifying to see that our commitment to excellence in providing automation solutions to libraries has been
recognized by the VARBusiness 500, which includes so many general solution providers.”
“Listening to their customers and anticipating their needs is what drives the growth of the VARBusiness 500,” said Andrew Vogel, the magazine’s
editorial research director. “Regardless of size, technology, business model, or vertical market, all the companies on the VARBusiness 500 share the ability to solve business problems through the innovative
use of technology.”
“The VARBusiness 500 is more than just a ranking,” said Mark Kindley, editor of VARBusiness.
“It provides insights into the dynamics driving the organizations that are supplying high-technology solutions to virtually every sector of the economy.”
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Martha McEvoy New Vice President of
Product Development
Martha McEvoy has been appointed Vice President of Product Development. McEvoy will lead the growth of the development organization as
products are created with the latest technologies, including Millennium, Innovative’s Web-based automated solution for libraries.
"We are very excited to have Martha join the executive team," said Innovative President and CEO Jerry Kline.
"Martha brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this position. Her skills complement those of our existing executive team members, including Chick Markley, who assumed the role of Chief Architect 1998. Martha will play an integral role in the future of product development here at Innovative."
McEvoy has been involved in management of Innovative's software development efforts since 1988.
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