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Executive view: a note from our president
 On the heels of a very exciting SLA conference in Denver and after a half-year of great product developments, I thought I'd take a moment to reflect on our recent progress.
I am pleased to report that Inmagic has been having a strong year. Many new blue chip organizations have selected Genie and Presto to manage their special collections and research assets. DB/Textworks and Genie® continue to be preferred choices in the special library market. The reaction to our newest product, Presto®, has been extremely positive in the broader knowledge and research asset management market.
As Inmagic users, you are in good company — part of a significant proportion of leading companies and organizations around the globe. For example, in the United States 12 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, 5 of the top 10 biotechnology companies, 7 of the top 10 banks, and over 30% of the top financial institutions all use Inmagic products. Overall, 60 of the Fortune 100 have purchased Inmagic software to manage their special collections and research assets.
We remain committed to building world class products and services with you — our customer and most valued resource — in mind. Over the next several months you'll be learning more about more planned solutions enhancements and product extensions in this newsletter, via press announcement, on our Web site and through our network of value added partners.
I thank you for your continued support and speaking for the entire Inmagic team we value your business. Enjoy this issue of @Inmagic and stay tuned for more exciting news from Inmagic over the coming months.
– Paul Puzzanghera
Maximizing adoption and usage - Inmagic Program Kit available
Whether introducing a searchable online directory or distributed library database system, introducing Genie or Presto to your organization, or simply educating your users on the benefits of your Inmagic application, it is critically important that you communicate with your user community and encourage adoption as quickly as possible. This means investing in internal education and marketing. With ever-changing user communities and precious little time and resources to keep people current and up-to-date, it's more important than ever to invest in communications. In response to this growing need and requests from our customers, we created a marketing starter kit with suggestions and sample materials to help stimulate ideas and get you started. If you have any suggestions to add, or a good publicity campaign you've designed for your organization (internal or external), we'd love to hear about it to share with others! Just go to the Customer Extranet and look for the ad for “Maximizing Your Impact” on the lower right of the page.
Product News:
As the beginning of a multilingual initiative, Inmagic is releasing a bilingual French/English version of its Genie ® Web-based integrated library system in mid-2007. Genie customers will have the option of using the application in either French or English on a desktop-by-desktop basis. More languages are planned to be added later. For more information or to discuss future language support, please contact your Inmagic account representative or Inmagic Partner.
View the press release on our Web site.
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Inmagic® Presto v2.0:
Research asset management for complex information environments
Read more about Presto
Inmagic® Genie v3.0:
Integrated library system with advanced Web-based workflow
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Industry Trends:
From Wikipedia.com... As described by Dr. Peter Jacso, (2004), federated searching consists of (1) transforming a query and broadcasting it to a group of disparate databases with the appropriate syntax, (2) merging the results collected from the databases, (3) presenting them in a succinct and unified format with minimal duplication, and (4) providing a means, performed either automatically or by the portal user, to sort the merged result set. In traditional search engines, such as Google, only sources that have been indexed by the search engine's crawler technology can be searched, retrieved and accessed. The large volume of documents housed in databases is not open to traditional Internet search engines because of limitations in crawler technology. Federated searching resolves this issue by the technique described above and makes these deep Web documents searchable without having to visit each database individually.
Generally speaking, federated search portals — either commercial or open access — will include among the federated search list public access Bibliographic databases, public access web-based library catalogues (known as OPAC s), web-based search engines like Google and/or open access, government operated, or corporate data collections. These individual data sources send back to the portal's interface a list of results from the search query. The user can review this hit list. Some portals will merely screen scrape the actual database results and not directly allow a user to enter the data source's application. More sophisticated ones will de-dupe the results list by merging and removing duplicates. There are additional features available in many portals, but the basic idea is the same: to improve the accuracy and relevance of individual searches as well as reduce the amount of time required to search for resources.
This process allows federated search some key advantages when compared with existing crawler based search engines. Federated search need not place any requirements or burdens on owners of the individual data sources, other than handling increased traffic. Federated searches are inherently as current as the individual data sources, as they are searched real time.
To learn more about Inmagic's federated search capabilities we encourage you to attend one of our Presto Webinars. You'll learn how Presto users are able to spend more time on the strategic and creative initiatives that drive their organization's success, and less time digging for information from virtual (Office documents, PDFs, audio, video, images, URLs) and physical (books, serials) information assets. Presto enables end users to both search full text and browse, in order to efficiently access critical information. By integrating seamlessly with WebFeat®, Presto users can simultaneously search across unlimited numbers of resources from a single intuitive interface. Integrating WebFeat's patented translator authentication and session management technology enables Presto users to search virtually any searchable database. WebFeat maintains a library of over 6,000 database translators – the industry's largest. WebFeat provides a truly no-hassle implementation and configuration process, proactively and reactively updating and upgrading translators as necessary. These actions are all completely transparent to information center staff and users, making Presto a powerful and easy-to-use federated search tool.
Tips & Tricks:
User CDale writes in our Forums:
"To create a .SLT file for all textbases, add EnableSlotLog=1 to the [Advanced] section of the DBTEXT.INI file in the installation folder (INMCSRV.INI if you're using CS/TextWorks). You can run Setup.EXE in the install folder then click the Configure button and follow the prompts instead of manually adding this line.
Or, if you don't have write access to that file, or to create .SLT files only for specific textbases only, put EnableSlotLog=1 in the [Advanced] section of the individual textbase .INI files. For example, the textbase .INI file for the CATALOG textbase is named CATALOG.INI and is in the same folder as the textbase."
Featured Customer :
Heidi Sanchez of Bethpage, NY appeared on the TV show Jeopardy! recently and was a 2-time champion. Heidi is Library Director at Five Towns College where she also teaches Library Science.
Her game stats and show archives can be found on the Jeopardy website.
Education:
Learn about best practices in research asset management
More than ever... your organization's success depends on quickly finding and acting on various kinds of research assets: the high-value internal and external information that professionals at all levels use to gain insights, plan, and execute.
However, based on Inmagic's conversations with hundreds of organizations in a variety of industries, the management of internal and external research assets remains challenging for most organizations — including sizable organizations with otherwise sophisticated capabilities.
How do the "best practice" organizations manage their research assets?
How can your information center be an invaluable resource across the organization (and beyond, if you serve external audiences as well)?
Through our work with numerous organizations, we've identified best practices for research asset management — a critical competency in today's information-driven economy where nearly everyone is a "researcher" in some way. As an information professional, you need to not only find information on behalf of end users but also make their own research efforts more productive. For over two decades Inmagic has provided the tools and applications that enable information professionals to build information repositories and make their organizations' research assets easily accessible by end users.
Join us to hear about seven best practices in research asset management. We'll also discuss return on investment (ROI): how those best practices organizations (and especially those who lead them) gauge the impact of effective research asset management.
Register for a webinar about better research asset management
Tight on time, or want to share the concepts with colleagues?
Download an Inmagic-produced white paper covering the same topics
Get insights about research asset management from IDC analysts Sue Feldman and Melissa Webster
Learn more about how research asset management can help you to make sense of a complex information environment. Download an IDC report in which Sue Feldman and Melissa Webster examine the needs of information-intensive organizations and assess how research asset management can help. Their comments on Inmagic® Presto may help you to determine if it's a possible solution to your organization's needs.
Download IDC paper: "Inmagic: Tools to Make Sense of Complex Information Environments"
Inmagic® Genie customer success stories
Inmagic is committed to innovation and the advancement of Web-based research asset management. We use various communications formats to help current and potential members of the Inmagic community learn more about how to select and implement a research asset management system that best meets their needs.
Detailed customer success stories are one of our most popular communications formats. There is no better way to visualize a solution to your own organization's challenges than to read about how someone else solved a similar problem.
If you're considering a new integrated library system, learn why and how industry colleagues at the following organizations have implemented Genie:
Women's Health Victoria:
Web-based health advocacy and information for women
California Child Welfare Resource Library:
Library delivers on its mission by making its holdings widely accessible via the Web
Dreyfus:
Leading mutual fund company invests in Inmagic Genie for corporate library management
Holland + Knight:
Central control, local process:
Large legal firm settles on Genie for nationwide library management
Jones & Stokes:
New tools bring the future of library management to a top environmental consulting firm
Read Genie customer success stories
Inmagic® Genie webinars
 If you're considering a new integrated library system (ILS), get a quick introduction to Inmagic® Genie via a webinar. The webinar highlights many Genie features including Cataloging, OPAC, Serials Management, Circulation, Orders and ILL.
Genie is a Web-based application designed to meet the needs of the expanding corporate information center where the focus is on managing and providing effective access to internal content. Learn how Genie allows information professionals, library staff and information users access to the information center from their desktops.
With Genie, library staff can use the Web-based cataloging and circulation capabilities to add new materials to the library catalog; edit existing materials; and perform check-in, checkout, and borrower maintenance — all directly from their Web browsers. Genie offers end users a rich and robust search and retrieval environment, making self-service in the virtual library a reality.
Because Genie uses .NET technology and Web services, it can be integrated within your organization's overall IT architecture. Genie creates a framework to expand the reach of your library to encompass the growing volume of content resources that must be managed.
Register here for upcoming Genie webinars
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Heidi Sanchez on Jeopardy! 
"Research Asset Management: 7 Ways to Improve Your Resource Bank" 
