SirsiDynix Enterprise Faceted Search Solution

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Easy-to-install, easy-to-manage, and easy-to-use search solution to energize your current SirsiDynix OPAC

Building on SirsiDynix's pioneering role in developing OPAC and search technologies, SirsiDynix Enterprise is the next logical step in the evolution of user experience (UX) solutions for libraries.

SirsiDynix Enterprise is a state-of-the-art faceted search solution that empowers libraries to make their collections more searchable and discoverable than ever before. Capitalizing on fuzzy search logic technology never before available to libraries, SirsiDynix Enterprise delivers leading-edge faceted search capabilities, simplified search interfaces, and much more. SirsiDynix Enterprise is an easy add-on to current SirsiDynix OPACs. iBistro, iLink, HIP, and Web2 sites can now provide an exciting new user experience with minimal new investment.

Friendly, URL-based searching
Supports use of Back button on web browsers as part of search process and building "saved searches." Users can copy and paste URL address into a new browser window and get exact same search results.

Search Widget provides a "code snippet" that can be easily cut and pasted in order to present a SirsiDynix Enterprise search box within existing web pages.

Finding Aids
Software lists information about the search results in categories, such as location, format, author, subject, publication date, and language. Users can easily narrow results using options that are actually in the result set. Takes the guesswork out of refining search results and eliminates "dead-ends."

Power and versatility for an exciting new user experience

Cascading style sheet (CSS) templates offer the look and feel of existing OPACs; features administrative interface for customized templates.

Multilingual Support
Supporting a range of languages, including those based on both Roman and non-Roman character sets. Users can change the language on-the-fly.

Enriched Content Available
Cover images (books, DVDs, CDs), reviews, annotations, excerpts, and more.

Complete Holdings Information
(Call number, library, type, etc.)

Light Integration with Existing Environments
A direct interface to SirsiDynix Symphony, Horizon, and Unicorn, for high-performance indexing of relevant SirsiDynix MARC data and item information.

Great tools for efficiently managing state-of-the-art search capabilities

Consortia support. Configuration options for specific library profiles (branches or different patron groups like kids, teens, Spanish speaking, for example).

Each profile can support multiple languages, a unique look and feel, library or location-based search limits, and be reached through a unique URL configured by the library.

Facet Stacking. Narrow your search results by a particular author, and then again by content type, and then again by holding library.

Diacritic Smarts. Enterprise is smart enough to recognize characters with or without diacritics. This is particularly helpful when a user doesn't have ready access to an environment where it's easy to type foreign language characters.

Accessibility Compliance. The Enterprise user interface complies with all Priority 1 and Priority 2 Checkpoints from the W3C's Accessibility Guidelines.

EPS/Rooms

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Users once needed help finding information. But today users actually need help coping with all the information that fairly gushes from a variety of information resources. This is why library professionals are needed now more than ever before – to help create a true, one-stop interface that serves as an information management platform for libraries to use in dealing with our increasingly virtual world.

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SirsiDynix Enterprise Portal SolutionTM (EPS/Rooms) is that single interface to all the relevant, high-quality information, resources, and services offered by an institution, including books from the library's collection, databases, digital archive, RSS feeds, virtual reference, ILL – even powerful federated search capabilities – in contexts that make sense. No longer must libraries have a dedicated interface for each library resource. Now users can spend their time discovering, not just searching. With EPS/Rooms, do the following as well:

• Your library can develop a single, unified Web environment, including traditional library Web content and all other electronic content and services, making information discovery for users and Web management for library staff much easier and more efficient.
• Your staff can offer information seekers even greater searching precision by providing for strategic contextual searches, not just federated searches.
• Librarians can use Rooms Builder, an innovative context management technology that forms the centerpiece of the SirsiDynix Enterprise Portal Solution, to build subject-based virtual "Rooms" of high-quality content from any source.

EPS/Rooms is also a sophisticated Web solution for enabling library users to discover information. How? By providing libraries with a strikingly effective and efficient means of (1) gathering high-quality information according to subject areas and (2) then presenting that content in virtual spaces we call "Rooms."

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Bringing together leading-edge OPAC, Web, personalization, search, and portal technologies, plus a smart design and high-quality content, EPS/Rooms is a powerful information management and presentation platform. This innovative solution empowers librarians to collect, connect, and present valuable content – no matter the source – to meet people's needs.

What is EPS/Rooms?
Accessed through any Web browser, an implementation of EPS/Rooms is a "site" that serves as the user interface for a library. Sure, it delivers standard features such as user sign-in, personalized accounts, standard catalog searches, and library information. But its real power comes from an innovative combination of key technologies (including federated search, OpenURL linking, Web indexing), smart design (virtual Rooms that present content contextually and permit contextualized searches), and high-quality content.

Using EPS/Rooms, libraries can "build" rich subject-based environments within which information seekers find valuable content – everything from eBooks, videos, and photos to virtual reference tools, Web sites, and local information – all focused, connected, and presented in the context of particular subjects.

Rooms Builder
Perhaps you're interested in building your own virtual Rooms on topics of unique interest to your users. Maybe it's a local history Room, or a dinosaur Room, or whatever your library has lots of demand for. With Rooms Builder, your staff has a Web-based tool that makes it easy to gather, organize, and present myriad content. This intuitive technology will even make it easy to schedule, deploy, and remove content from Rooms. So making changes to a Family Health & Fitness Room can be arranged ahead of time: information on flu and colds can be set to coincide with the onset of winter; information on camper's first aid and poison ivy scheduled for summer. With Rooms Builder, you have a powerful tool for managing the presentation of information that your unique and demanding library users seek today.