Amongst the first of its beta testing program customers to implement AGent Iluminar is Auto-Graphics’ longtime partner, the State Library of Kansas.

“The State Library of Kansas looks forward to introducing a greatly enhanced experience for users of our statewide catalog of over 900 libraries and 40 general and specialized information resources, via the AGent Iluminar interface and AGent Resource Sharing. Our vision of delivering 21st century library services and resources to all Kansans will move closer to realization through this well-organized, appealingly presented environment for exploration and discovery,” said Jeff Hixon, deputy director, Statewide Resource Sharing, State Library of Kansas.

“The ability to customize the experience at state, regional, local and individual levels through its visual, textual and navigational presentation makes AGent Iluminar a truly user-focused approach to electronic information sharing,” continued Hixon. “In appearance, it’s surprising and new. As an extension of Auto-Graphics’ long history of product development and customer service, it’s exactly what we hope for and expect.”

AGent Iluminar is a Web Services application that was built using the free open source Adobe Flex® framework, which enables graphic transitions and design features in a more visually pleasing interface, while retaining and enhancing the underlying functionality of the AGent platform. AGent Iluminar provides intuitive navigation, using web cues already familiar to many web-savvy patrons, as well as a “wizard-like” advanced search screen that utilizes prompts modeled from popular search engines. In addition, AGent Iluminar employs innovative, attention-grabbing display technologies such as 3D Flip and Cover Flow book jacket display, made popular by Apple iPod®, as well as enhanced drag & drop functionality and the ability for patrons to modify their own user experience through “My Lists” and “My Account” customization options.

Additional information about AGent Iluminar will be made available to interested media and partners at ALA Annual 2009; to schedule a demonstration, please contact Kim Masterson at 909-569-1529 or kxm@auto-graphics.com.

About Auto-Graphics, Inc.

Founded in 1950, Auto-Graphics has been a technology innovator for more than five decades, providing data automation solutions to customers across multiple industries. For over 36 years, Auto-Graphics has helped libraries of all sizes become more efficient and patron-centric. The AGent integrated product suite – currently used by more than 6,000 libraries in North America – comprises AGent Iluminar™, a next generation patron user interface; AGent VERSO™ a complete integrated library system; AGent Resource Sharing™ a robust interlibrary loan and consortial borrowing solution; and AGent Search™ a powerful federated search application. AGent products are standards-compliant, built with an open systems architecture and are available via the Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted delivery model. For more information, please visit www.auto-graphics.com.

San Francisco, CA and Toms River, NJ - 22 June 2009 — MuseGlobal, the Smart Connector company and provider of award-winning content integration platforms worldwide, today announced a partnership with Specialty Systems, Inc., a company focusing on innovative information systems solutions to Federal, State and Local Government customers.

Specialty Systems, Inc. is partnering with MuseGlobal to provide the systems integration expertise to engineer law enforcement and homeland security applications built on MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect, which provides federated search and harvesting technologies, with a growing library of more than 6,000 pre-built source connectors.

The applications resulting from this partnership will incorporate a new breed of unified information access allowing structured data from database sources; semi-structured data from spreadsheets, forms and XML sources; unstructured data from web sites, documents, email; and rich media such as images, video and audio information to be accessed simultaneously from internal databases and external sources. This information is gathered on the fly, and unified for immediate presentation to the requestor.

These applications will give law enforcement agencies and intelligence personnel the most current information available to maximize public safety. The products and services resulting from this partnership will deliver a substantial improvement in the capability of any law enforcement and homeland security agency to proactively analyze and anticipate risks to the public.

Specialty Systems has a 30 year history providing solutions for state and local government, which include systems for county sheriff’s processing, criminal evidence tracking, temporary restraining orders, fire inspection, code enforcement, case management, and others which enable agencies to deliver improved services to their constituencies at increased speed and substantially reduced cost. MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect, containing over 6000 pre-built connectors to sources, combined with Specialty Systems’ systems integration expertise will deliver a quantum improvement in searching both internal and external information through federated and harvesting technologies – serving the full spectrum of agencies from local police departments to federal intelligence specialists – all of whom contribute to our safety.

Emil Kaunitz, CEO of Specialty Systems stated: “We at Specialty Systems look forward to working closely with local and state law enforcement, emergency management and homeland security organizations to empower their personnel with the information which maximizes their effectiveness. The combination of Specialty Systems and MuseGlobal in working with these organizations will deliver a new class of capability which helps enable their efforts to keep us safe.”

MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect for Specialty Systems, Integrates Search Results on One Platform to Provide Integrated Solutions for Local and State Governments

In a typical law enforcement environment, mission-critical data is stored in a wide variety of information silos, including databases, repositories, legacy systems and servers. Officials, whether in the intelligence office, field or at a desk must query multiple search tools to access information, which not only requires them to jump from application to application but results in delays in information availability, low productivity and, most importantly, missing critical pieces of information.

For example, an officer needs to know immediately if a driver of a car pulled over for a driving offense has existing background detail which requires review before they are allowed to proceed. Does the individual have restraining orders, court orders, outstanding child support payments, are they wanted for routine questioning or are they on the terrorist watch list? Employing MuseConnect, Specialty Systems’ applications will provide this information on demand to those officers or to the beat officers using a handheld device.

Another example of capability allows intelligence personnel to harvest information from select sources. An example of use of this capability occurs where a vehicle is being sought for suspected involvement in criminal activity. Here, transaction information from automated toll collection databases is harvested for a specific interval of time and is cross-referenced to vehicle make, model, year and color, with this information compared to a suspicious activity or robbery report. Matches then identify vehicles to investigate for specific robberies or drug trafficking investigations.

“We recognized an opportunity to extend the reach of Specialty Systems to include a range of targeted, industry-specific data repositories and external services,” said Thomas Gensch Executive Vice President, MuseGlobal. “With MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect for Specialty Systems we’ve made more data readily accessible, therefore providing best of breed products to Federal, State and Local agencies.”

About Specialty Systems, Inc.

Specialty Systems, Inc. (SSI) is a systems integration company located in Toms River, NJ. Founded in 1978, the company has over 30 years of government and corporate experience, including system and software engineering for State, Local and Federal government systems for public safety, command/control/communications/ intelligence (C3I), and systems supporting law enforcement and legal processes. Specialty Systems is a full service systems provider to State, County, City, Municipal and Federal agencies under current and past contracts for concept development, strategic planning, program management and the design, development, test, integration, documentation, deployment, and post deployment support of fully integrated systems and software. Specialty Systems supports customer systems throughout their life cycle and also partners with Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and EMC products.

About MuseGlobal, Inc.

MuseGlobal sets the standard for Smart Connectors (library of 6000 +) through content integration and federation technologies. This platform for search integration and federation systems enable institutions worldwide to build outstanding search products and services, unifying the widest range of content sources into high performance and reliable custom search solutions. We support multiple platforms and offer a wide range of interoperability options, as well as robust developer and customer toolkits that ease customization, implementation, maintenance and administration. MuseGlobal partners and works closely with today’s most sophisticated integrators, enterprise software companies publishers, technology companies, enterprises and online services to license effective custom search solutions to their users.

June 17, 2009 (SEATTLE) – Dartmouth College Library marks a worldwide milestone with the launch of an open beta of the Summon web-scale discovery service, a groundbreaking, Google-like search of the full breadth of content found in library collections. In addition to librarians, the Summon service is now being used by students and faculty at Dartmouth College, enabling them to search the contents of the library – physical and digital – from a single search box. The Summon service has been developed by Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest.

“We’ve been eagerly awaiting the day when we could introduce our students and faculty to this single, convenient, compelling, high-yielding discovery system for our scholarly articles, newspaper entries, books, and the metadata that leads to the rest of our holdings,” said David Seaman, the college’s Associate Librarian for Information Management. “To be the world’s first is exciting, but for us, the real excitement is in dramatically improving the service to our users. The Summon service empowers our users, enabling them to explore the vastness of our collection and find exactly what they’re looking for,” added Cyndy Pawlek, Deputy Librarian of the College.

Another milestone awaits Serials Solutions next month when the Summon service launches commercially. To prepare, it’s adding a variety of new content providers, including more than 20 society publishers hosted on American Institute of Physics’ Scitation platform. The service now includes nearly 100 contributors, including key partners ProQuest and Gale – aggregators representing more than 4,700 publishers. Serials Solutions harvests and indexes their content, enabling fast, relevancy-ranked search results. New content providers are consistently being added to the Summon service in order to expand the breadth of content discoverable via the library.

“We are very pleased to be involved at this early stage of Serial Solutions’ new beta product,” said Terry Hulbert, Director of Business Development at the American Institute of Physics. “Discoverability forms a key part of our various strategies and collaborating in this way with their new Summon service provides an opportunity for library users to search highly targeted and relevant resources through a single interface. AIP and its Scitation partners consider it critical that users of any product or service are able to discover the high value content that they publish.”

The goal of the Summon service is to bring the user back to the library as the starting place for research, and provide for greater return on the library’s content investment. In addition to Dartmouth College Library, leading institutions serving as beta sites for the Summon service include Oklahoma State University, University of Calgary, University of Sydney, Claremont Colleges Library, University of Liverpool and Western Michigan University.

The Summon web-scale discovery service is hosted and built with an open API that will allow it to be used with existing library Web sites, next-generation catalogs or campus systems with low impact on staff. To learn more about the Summon service, visit http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon.

About Serials Solutions

Founded in 2000 by a librarian for librarians, Serials Solutions is the global leader in E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) that serves more than 2,000 libraries of all sizes and types. The Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks authoritative e-resource knowledgebase is the foundation for Serials Solutions 360 e-resource access and management solution, which is the only complete and integrated solution available for libraries.

Serials Solutions also is the exclusive source for Ulrichs Global Serials Intelligence and represents the AquaBrowser Library unified discovery interface in the academic market in North America. The WebFeat federated search service recently acquired by ProQuest soon will be incorporated into the Serials Solutions family of access and discovery services.

Serials Solutions provides fast implementation, easy customization, and outstanding value to libraries throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.serialssolutions.com or call 1-866-SERIALS. Serials Solutions is a business unit of ProQuest LLC.

“I am pleased to address such an important subject - the acceleration of discovery of scientific information - at SLA’s centennial conference,” noted Lederman. “A future in which searching thousands of collections in parallel is not only achievable, but quickly becoming a strategic necessity.”

The theme of this year’s conference is Information to Inspiration: Knowledge & Vision Shaping the Future. Inspired by the potential for a massively scalable research application, Mr. Lederman’s paper includes his vision for distilling the overwhelming amount of available electronic information via a divide-and-conquer approach. His talk will include the benefits, the challenges and a technical overview on achieving the vision through the use of next-generation federated search technology.

“The timing of my talk at this milestone conference is perfect as we are launching a new version of ScienceResearch.com (http://www.scienceresearch.com) at SLA that searches more science than any other publicly searchable scientific portal in the world,” Lederman continued.

His talk is scheduled for Monday, June 15, 2009, at 3:30pm to 5:30pm, in the Convention Center, Room 141, under the session title “SLA Contributed Papers:  Adapt, Leverage, and Communicate–Part I.” The link to Mr. Lederman’s contributed paper, the speaking schedule and links to the eight other contributed papers are available on the SLA website at http://tinyurl.com/mx7nb3.

About Deep Web Technologies

Deep Web Technologies (http://www.deepwebtech.com) creates custom, sophisticated federated search solutions for clients who demand precise, accurate results. The tool of choice when needing to access the deep web, federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple information sources, merging the results into one page. Serving Fortune 500 companies, the Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov), the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of Defense (http://multisearch.dtic.mil), Scitopia.org (http://www.scitopia.org), Nutrition.gov (http://www.nutrition.gov), WorldWideScience.org (http://www.worldwidescience.org) and a variety of other customers and partners, Deep Web Technologies has built a reputation as the “researcher’s choice” for its advanced, agile information discovery tools.

Media contact:

Darcy Pedersen
darcy@deepwebtech.com or 505-820-0301 x233

“We wanted to maximize the value of the deep web for our clients,” said Abe Lederman, President and CTO of Deep Web Technologies. “Our Explorit Research Accelerator(TM) enables a truly encompassing search of the deep web, while Search Builder allows organizations to narrow the search parameters for specific groups within that organization.” In other words, a corporate library may have many collections it subscribes to, for disparate departments within the corporation. Search Builder enables that corporate library to segment federate search according to functional areas within the corporation (i.e., HR may not want to include results from the engineering-related collections in its federated search).

Relying on an easy-to-use administrative interface, Search Builder allows administrators or authorized users to create as many federated search portals as needed, which represent privately branded search pages containing different default collections and search fields used for the search, as well as customized user experience.

Mr. Lederman continues, “Search Builder simplifies the search and discovery process by eliminating the noise associated with nonessential collections and takes the guesswork out of result relevancy. The best part is that it’s extremely simple to modify, delete or create a very researcher-friendly portal for different groups within an organization.”

Enterprise search is not complete without a robust federated search capability to tie disparate, fee-based and other third-party sources of valuable information to the search experience. Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator(TM), combined with its new Search Builder product, creates a strong solution for the enterprise, universities and governmental organizations. The offering incorporates real-time results, clustering, ranking, de-duping and personal selections into the results, creating a truly strategic competitive advantage in today’s marketplace that demands access to the very best information.

Future plans include integrating Search Builder into Deep Web Technologies’ free media sites, Mednar (http://www.mednar.com), Biznar (http://www.biznar.com), and ScienceResearch.com (http://www.scienceresearch.com).

About Deep Web Technologies

Deep Web Technologies (http://www.deepwebtech.com) creates custom, sophisticated federated search solutions for clients who demand precise, accurate results. The tool of choice when needing to access the deep web, federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple information sources, merging the results into one page. Serving Fortune 500 companies, the Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov), the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of Defense, Scitopia.org (http://www.scitopia.org), Nutrition.gov, WorldWideScience.org (http://www.worldwidescience.org) and a variety of other customers and partners, Deep Web Technologies has built a reputation as the “researcher’s choice” for its advanced, agile information discovery tools.

Media contact:

Darcy Pedersen
darcy@deepwebtech.com or 505-820-0301 x233

“At Deep Web Technologies, we want to find the simplest ways to increase information accessibility,” said Abe Lederman, company founder and President. “OpenSearch provides a standard way for users to add their favorite science search engines to their browser of choice.”

OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for sharing search results. Created by A9.com, an Amazon.com company, the OpenSearch format is now in use by hundreds of search engines and search applications around the Internet. Deep Web Technologies utilizes the OpenSearch format for each of their target search portals, bringing Web 2.0 accessibility to the most important science search portals available.

Of the six OpenSearch plugins created, five are to federated search applications developed by Deep Web Technologies that search some of the best deep web science content available. Federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple information sources, merging the results into one page. Freely searchable value-added content is available through federated search engines surfacing it to a variety of users, who might otherwise not be aware of its existence. Federated Search is a great information discovery tool that enables the rapid and cost-effective integration of multiple, valuable information sources into one web-portal without significant expense or effort on the part of content owners.

“We’re making these plugins available to all of our customers,” noted Lederman. “It makes it easy to search for information in your favorite science search engines right from your browser’s toolbar.”

Deep Web Technologies plans on expanding their current scientific and technical plugins as well as creating plugins in more subjects. To learn more about Deep Web Technologies and its Explorit Research Accelerator(TM) federated search product, please visit http://www.deepwebtech.com.

About Deep Web Technologies

Deep Web Technologies (http://www.deepwebtech.com) creates custom, sophisticated federated search solutions for clients who demand precise, accurate results. The tool of choice when needing to access the deep web, federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple information sources, merging the results into one page. Serving Fortune 500 companies, the Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov), the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of Defense, Scitopia.org (http://www.scitopia.org), Nutrition.gov, WorldWideScience.org (http://www.worldwidescience.org) and a variety of other customers and partners, Deep Web Technologies has built a reputation as the “researcher’s choice” for its advanced, agile information discovery tools.

Media contact:

Darcy Pedersen
darcy@deepwebtech.com or 505-820-0301 x233

Built with an XML framework, the Infobase eBooks connection will allow users the fastest and most stable access to content using the newest technology.

“More forward-thinking content providers are moving to this content standard,” says Wendy Collins, Infobase Vice President of Digital Strategy. “We want to provide the best access to the best content, and we like that Serials Solutions understands that. We work with them because we approve of how they manage our content within the Serials Solutions services.”

Infobase was recently certified through the Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified program for content providers, but has partnered with Serials Solutions since long before the program’s inception.

“Whenever they build a newer, or better connection, they inform us of it,” says Stephen DiStasio, Senior Product Manager for Serials Solutions 360 Search. “This is an important relationship for us to have with content providers. They understand that we want to be ready for our clients and offer them the fastest, most stable technology.”

The new Infobase connection will be available free to 360 Search subscribers. For more information on 360 Search or the other Serials Solutions services, visit www.serialssolutions.com, call 1-866-SERIALS or email 360@serialssolutions.com.

About Infobase Publishing

Infobase Publishing is one of America’s leading providers of supplemental educational materials to the school and library markets. The company publishes books, online databases, videos, and digital products under such well-known names as Facts On File, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Chelsea House, Bloom’s Literary Criticism, and Ferguson Publishing. Infobase Publishing’s headquarters are in New York City.

About Serials Solutions

Founded by a librarian for librarians in 2000, Serials Solutions is the global leader in E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) that serves more than 2,000 libraries of all sizes and types. Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks, the authoritative e-resource knowledgebase, is the foundation for Serials Solutions 360, the only complete and integrated e-resource access and management solution. Serials Solutions recently introduced the Summon unified discovery service, a revolutionary discovery tool that provides instant access to the full breadth of the library’s collection through a single search.

Serials Solutions also is the exclusive source for Ulrichs Global Serials Intelligence and represents the AquaBrowser Library unified discovery interface in the academic market in North America. The WebFeat federated search service recently acquired by ProQuest soon will be incorporated into the Serials Solutions family of access and discovery services.

Serials Solutions provides fast implementation, easy customization, and outstanding value to libraries throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.serialssolutions.com or call 1-866-SERIALS. Serials Solutions is a division of ProQuest LLC.

About ProQuest LLC

ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the culmination of experience from many respected brands, including CSA, UMI, Chadwyck-Healey, SIRS, and eLibrary. With Serials Solutions, Ulrich’s, RefWoks, COS, and Dialog brands now in the ProQuest family, the company continues to build on its legacy of responsive people in partnership with librarians.

ProQuest consistently seeks new ways to support researchers and quality research. More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered technology, ProQuest offers a depth and breadth of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication–including content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its customers and end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment. For more information, visit www.proquest.com or the ProQuest parent company website, www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com.

New Federated Search, Classification and Management Features Designed to Expand Existing Federation Capabilities

May 13, 2009 — AUSTIN, Texas, BUSINESS WIRE —

StoredIQ Inc., a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management and eDiscovery technologies, today announced the immediate availability of a new StoredIQ Federated Master Appliance, delivering federated search, classification and management features designed to expand upon the existing StoredIQ federated litigation hold capability. The StoredIQ Federated Master Appliance allows organizations whose information management needs stretch beyond a single appliance or single geographic location to have unprecedented visibility into distributed data environments and centralized management of multiple StoredIQ appliances.

The StoredIQ Federated Master Appliance centralizes and expands the existing capabilities into a single management device with the following functionality:

• Centralized searching, classification management and data object tagging. Users can now search, classify and tag data objects across multiple distributed appliances as though all the object data was contained on a single appliance. These features allow customers to precisely search and apply consistent classifications and tags across a wide variety of enterprise data systems including file, email, document management and enterprise archiving systems.
• Federation administration interface. Centralized administration is now available for all appliances within the same federation, simplifying appliance administration and implementation of corporate level policies across geographically distributed appliances. Having one easy-to-use interface to manage multiple globally distributed appliances improves administrative efficiency.
• Centralized federated litigation hold. Management of federated litigation holds, enabling robust centralized preservation of electronic data for litigation matters that span multiple geographic locations, is supported within the StoredIQ federated solution. Federated litigation hold automates the collection and preservation of responsive data across multiple sites, reducing the risk of spoliation and potential sanctions by streamlining the eDiscovery process.
• Global visibility and access. Global metrics and reports are available from the StoredIQ Federated Master Appliance that provide unprecedented visibility and access to data across geographically distributed sites. With over 250 out-of-the-box attributes available for capturing and acting on unstructured data, StoredIQ offers the largest set of globally federated metadata for creating reports and metrics that span the enterprise.

‘The StoredIQ solution is designed to be at the intersection of eDiscovery, information management and risk and compliance,’ said Keith Zoellner, Chief Technology Officer at StoredIQ. He adds, ‘StoredIQ’s federation technology provides a unified method of managing business policies against enterprise data. By providing an in-depth assessment of unstructured and semi-structured data across the enterprise, organizations gain critical visibility into their business content to make more informed decisions about the management, retention, and disposition of their data.’

About StoredIQ

StoredIQ is a leading provider of enterprise-class Intelligent Information Management solutions, enabling organizations to gain visibility and control over business-critical information to help meet their compliance, governance and legal discovery requirements. The company provides a range of integrated solutions for fast response to litigation and investigations, for proactive ‘litigation readiness,’ and for information protection and risk management, as well as storage management. Industry-leading companies rely on StoredIQ’s award-winning technology to streamline their information management and eDiscovery processes to reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation. For more information, visit www.storediq.com.

StoredIQ is a trademark of StoredIQ, Inc. All other trademarks may or may not be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Contacts:

StoredIQ Inc.
Ursula Talley,
512-334-3101
VP,
Marketing
utalley@storediq.com
or
Lois Paul & Partners
Terry Frechette,
781-782-5791
Terry_Frechette@lpp.com

Before joining Deep Web Technologies, Ms. Swisa was the Chief Information Officer for a Fortune 1000 public company. As CIO, Ms. Swisa oversaw all strategic planning for the IT Department, as well as day-to-day operations including networking and application development. She also directed office administration, plant management and employee professional development.

Ms. Swisa blends technological expertise and operating know-how to leverage cutting-edge strategies to deliver outstanding products. She has a history of leading teams to build scalable, flexible, and cost-effective information technology platforms, application frameworks, and data management systems.

“Deep Web Technologies has tremendous momentum, and the commitment for a superior product is clear. I am enthusiastic about joining the Deep Web Technologies team and look forward to driving important product enhancements and integration,” said Ms. Swisa.

To learn more about Deep Web Technologies and its Explorit Research Accelerator(TM) federated search product, please visit http://www.deepwebtech.com.

About Deep Web Technologies

Deep Web Technologies (http://www.deepwebtech.com) creates custom, sophisticated federated search solutions for clients who demand precise, accurate results. The tool of choice when needing to access the deep web, federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple information sources, merging the results into one page. Serving Fortune 500 companies, the Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov), the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of Defense, Scitopia.org (http://www.scitopia.org), Nutrition.gov, WorldwideScience.org (http://www.worldwidescience.org) and a variety of research and library alliances, Deep Web Technologies has built a reputation as the “researcher’s choice” for its advanced, agile information discovery tools.

Media contact:

Darcy Pedersen
darcy@deepwebtech.com or 505-820-0301 x233

“We thought Encore was just perfect for a K-12 audience because of the single point of entrance and the ‘zeroing in’ capabilities of the facets and the Tag Cloud,” says Systems Librarian Janne Cookman. “Kids shouldn’t have to know about metadata or how the catalog is indexed and organized in order to search for and retrieve information effectively. Presenting students with several easy-to-grasp options for focusing a search, or for branching off in completely new directions, seemed like a natural fit.”

DPS selected Research Pro at the same time as Encore, Cookman says, “because we felt our resources would be used more if they were displayed more prominently and could be searched more efficiently. Now students can more easily access the subscription resources that we have selected with their information needs in mind.”

About Denver Public Schools

The mission of Denver Public Schools is to provide all students the opportunity to achieve the knowledge and skills necessary to become contributing citizens in our society. Denver Public Schools serves the residents of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, and has a student enrollment of over 75,000 and is comprised of 152 schools. Under the leadership of newly appointed Superintendent Tom Boasberg, Denver Public Schools is committed to making Denver a national leader in student achievement, high school graduation, college and career preparation, and college matriculation.

About Innovative Interfaces

Innovative Interfaces (www.iii.com) dedicates its energies to meeting the needs of libraries and the challenges of library automation. The company has fulfilled this mission with first-rate services and products such as the Millennium integrated library platform, INN-Reach resource sharing, Electronic Resource Management, and the Encore discovery services platform. Today, thousands of libraries of all types in over 40 countries rely on Innovative’s products, services, and support. The company is located in Emeryville, California with offices around the world.