Acquisitions Librarians

As your collections grow, the process of identifying, ordering, tracking and receiving materials becomes very time consuming. In addition, your electronic resources have their own special rules and procedures when it comes to licensing and access. Endeavor addresses these and other concerns with Voyager for physical assets and Meridian for e-resources.

Voyager™
Voyager, the most trusted Integrated Library System available today, was specifically designed to reduce paperwork, smooth your workflows, and automate processes wherever possible.  Specifically, Voyager offers a fully integrated Electronic Order Process and workflow automation puts every step of the acquisition process online, while Electronic Data Interchange eliminates clerical functions and paper records. Your book agent, publisher or preferred provider is probably already up-to-speed on Voyager, because we support the UN/EDIFACT standard.

In addition, Voyager has the capability to handle:

• Complex issue cycles for periodicals. Voyager 5 includes new Complex Serial Pattern Prediction to match the changing face of serials patterns. This new capability will allow operators to define more difficult normalized irregular patterns, eliminating manual intervention for those serials that don’t follow any standard frequency.
• Fast-tracking order and invoice line item creation. Voyager’s Quick Line Item function on purchase orders (and on invoices in Voyager 5) has become an essential time saver for many acquisition operations by reducing the number of processing steps involved.

Meridian™
Managing the stacks was easy compared to the complex relationships between electronic resources, the packages through which they were acquired, and the licenses that govern their use. You have to be able to support a wide range of patron activities and ensure that your staff has the control they need over these resources.

Quickly becoming the Electronic Resource Management system of choice among libraries worldwide, Meridian gives you the ability to manage and troubleshoot all of your electronic resources. With a single interface, you can:

• View a summary of a resource, showing key information about coverage, licensing and acquisition history.  Meridian is also context-sensitive – so different information is presented to your staff, depending on their responsibilities and authorities
• Access bibliographic holdings information and acquisitions from your ILS in real time
• Take advantage of sophisticated, yet easy-to-use reporting and analysis capabilities so you can make data-driven decisions regarding your e-resource collection.
• Display e-resource information from Meridian in your OPAC so patrons can easily access the information they need.

Cataloging

Your collections span print books and journals, digital assets of many types, art and other objects. It all needs to be described and made accessible via your catalog. Two products from Endeavor make the process easy and efficient.

Voyager™
Voyager, our proven and powerful solution for Integrated Library Management, provides the interface for staff to populate your catalog. Even MARC records from your vendors can be imported to start the cataloging process. Special items and archives can all be entered using a customizable interface.  Voyager's Universal Catalog offers multi-database libraries the ability to create a centralized union catalog. The Universal Catalog offers users access to a de-duplicated database of bibliographic records, and the detailed holdings and item information from the databases of the local libraries. Universal Catalog provides only the best records for consortia databases, saving time and money for the multiple libraries involved.

Curator™
Your institution is creating digital content locally. Collections of papers, audio files, art images and important cultural heritage materials are being digitized. Your patrons want seamless access to those resources as easily as they would access any other materials in your library. Curator is a flexible, scalable solution for creating, searching and managing all of your digital resources.  

Curator provides:

• Integrated searching across content in both the OPAC and the local digital catalog using the FAST Data Search Engine™.
• Multiple repositories and databases for defining Virtual Collections.
• Support for local metadata formats defined by a Document Type Definition – including Dublin Core and Encoded Archival Description – or any other DTD.
•  Access to Relevant Materials with Enriched Searching.