Circulation librarians
You spend a good amount of time managing your collections
– shelved books and journals, special documents, perhaps even
objects – and your patrons need to access these materials easily
and quickly. You also need to identify your customers, whether
they are infrequent visitors or patrons who require special
privileges. You need to know if a needed item is available,
whether it is in transit from another institution, or in the
hands of another user. And you would like to accomplish all
these tasks from a single place.
Voyager
Voyager, the most trusted Integrated Library System available
today, presents busy Circulation staff with the information
they need in order to provide a range of services to their
users, including:
- Circulation services that maximize efficiency
at the circulation desk, enabling staff members to circulate
popular items more quickly and accommodate special needs.
Accommodating the instances where the circulation desk
is staffed by students workers or frequently rotating staff
members, Voyager is quick to learn and easy to use.
- Alerts
to your staff about pending transactions for the user, enabling
end-to-end, patron-focused services in a single transaction.
A level of exception management helps the library to provide
alerts at every transaction.
- Monitoring of your collections, even when items
are in transit, by delivering real-time transit details to
Circulation staff.
Furthermore, Endeavor is committed to supporting the mission
of libraries to safeguard open, anonymous access to materials
and information – which means that patron privacy is fully
protected in Voyager and all of the services listed above are
delivered while fully protecting patron privacy.
Voyager WebVoyáge™
What if your patrons need your help at 3:00 AM? With
Voyager’s WebVoyáge, the user-friendly online public access
catalog (OPAC), your patrons have a single point of access
to your resources. And with access so simple, your staff will
have more time for other duties, even during their regular
working hours!
With more than 1,300 libraries around the world using Voyager,
you can benefit from the refinements and improvements that
Endeavor has implemented in its flagship Integrated Library
System.
Reference librarians
The information is out there, but your collections are both
local and remote, and your users are the same. Many of your
patrons haven’t set foot in the library in months, maybe even
years. You need to provide search tools with minimum handholding
so you can work on the tougher problems. Endeavor provides
a suite of tools that make you more efficient and effective,
while empowering your patrons.
Discovery: Finder™
With print and electronic resources onsite or at remote locations,
searching has become complicated. And with extended resources
comes search results that may overwhelm the user. Discovery:
Finder, Endeavor's federated search
solution, enables users to search across multiple resources
with a single query in any language on a single interface.
From the plain language query, a sophisticated analysis engine
takes over and:
- An automatic abstract of each item is returned,
with automatic keyword generation and alerts.
- Results are automatically categorized and clustered.
- Users
can then click on the citations in a cluster to zero in on
relevant information.
Discovery: Resolver™
You have worked to provide your patrons with a broad selection
of resources. They know how to search across many sources,
especially if they are using Discovery: Finder, but they need
to get to full-text articles. Discovery: Resolver, Endeavor's
link resolving solution, makes these connections transparent
– taking the user from OpenURL and non-OpenURL sources directly
to full-text sources using context-sensitive links.
Even on a limited budget, your library can offer improved
access to over 100,000 unique titles in Discovery: Resolver’s
knowledge base. As a hosted solution, all data (including title,
content, coverage, links for full text collections) is refreshed
weekly and all links are verified. In short, Resolver makes
providing link resolving technology to your patrons easy!
Journals Onsite™
Your library has decided to bring electronic journal storage
in-house. Now you have to manage those journals and provide
access to your patrons.
You need a simple, consistent interface to the complete collection,
regardless of publisher or format. And you will need lots of
capacity. Journals Onsite delivers:
- Standard, widely-accepted methods for browsing
and article presentation
- Alphabetical listings, multiple subject-category
levels
- A Customer Usability Tested interface, providing
an optimized user experience
- No known capacity limitations
In summary, Journals Onsite delivers permanent, “one-stop”
access for all of your library’s electronic journals.
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