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We couldn't wait to publish this supplemental issue! Reports of great achievements by our customers have been flooding in, and we are pleased to recognize them in this issue.
In Inmagic news, more than 200 organizations have now chosen Genie for their libraries. Get the details and press release below.
We are also pleased to report that this online publication now has a Library of Congress ISSN: 1939-4373. We have been publishing the newsletter since 1983, very shortly after Inmagic's founding!
Product News:
 Inmagic has sold its 200th Inmagic® Genie ILS, adding to a rich and diverse set of customer organizations worldwide including Dreyfus, Holland & Knight, Bureau Veritas, Jones & Stokes, Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, and the California Child Welfare Resource Library.
Many librarians we speak to have found the volume of information they need to manage keeps increasing, and Genie is a tool that can help streamline their management of information. Sue Feldman, IDC's Vice President for Content Technologies, notes: " Genie's librarian's dashboard and other automation tools enable information center staff to maximize the time that they spend using their professional expertise on behalf of end users, versus handling administrative tasks like serials check-in and labeling."
Read the press release for insights on why more than 200 organizations have chosen Genie.
 Continuing our multilingual initiative, Inmagic has released the next version of Inmagic® Presto with bilingual and localization capabilities included. This means:
- French Canadian versions of the user interface and Help are now available
- Presto now ships with localization for: Canada French, Canada English, Great Britain English, Australia English, New Zealand English (spelling, date formats, etc.)
- Presto and Genie customers will have the option of using the application in either French or English on a desktop-by-desktop and session-by-session basis
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Canadian, British, Australian and New Zealand customers please see your regional Inmagic Partner for information on localized Inmagic products.
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.
 Key Features:
- Presto is now bilingual/localized. (See above)
- Genie Integration: Presto can now be configured to search an existing Genie catalog
- Federated Search Integration: Federated searching gives the ability to search over 3,000 external subscription databases such as Lexis Nexis or Factiva, and deep web databases such as PubMed
- Auto-login support for guest users: Systems can now have a truly public interface, and need not require login for all levels of user
- Better RSS feed support: RSS feeds now accommodate all best-of-breed RSS readers. RSS capability enables users to receive alerts on topics that they wish to monitor
- Better Alerts: All Alert types can now be scheduled
- Easy automated upgrades: Presto v2.0 can be upgraded to Presto v2.1 via a new automated upgrade program
Presto users with a valid Maintenance Agreement can upgrade to this version free of charge using our new automated upgrade program: you will receive an email containing instructions. For further details of what's in this release, please view your new Readme file or contact Customer Support.
For more information on how Presto can benefit your organization, including an in-depth discussion of new Presto features and how they can enhance your workflow, please call us at 1.800.229.8398 (M - F 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST) or send email to Presto@Inmagic.com
Read the announcement
Inmagic is pleased to pre-announce DB/TextWorks and DB/Text WebPublisher PRO Version 11. This new version will provide product enhancements and Windows Server 2008 compatibility. As with all maintenance releases, DB/TextWorks and DB/Text WebPublisher PRO customers on maintenance automatically receive DB/Textworks v11 and/or DB/Text WebPublisher PRO v11 as part of their annual maintenance contract, and thus can take advantage of these enhanced features and functionality at no additional cost.
Details on this release will be sent to all maintenance customers in a few weeks.
If you are planning to use Vista on your desktop or your IT department is planning to move to Windows Server 2008 (Microsoft has scheduled the release of Windows Server 2008 for February) Version 11 is a must, as prior versions of DB/Text WebPublisher PRO are not compatible with Windows Server 2008.
If you have questions regarding DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO v11, contact Inmagic directly or ask your local Inmagic Partner.
Don't forget to renew your Maintenance agreement in 2007 to receive any available product upgrades. To renew, please contact Matti Score, Maintenance Administrator, at 800-229-8398 or 781-938-4444 Ext. 226, or email maintenance@inmagic.com. You can also request a quote online.
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Industry Trends:
Industry watcher Jennifer Koerber, "the Eclectic Librarian", will be giving a 15-minute Cybertour at the Internet Librarian conference entitled "Taming the Online Infoclutter: Using RSS to Keep Current and Manage Overload".
Here's the main idea: since online publishing of good information has been expanding tremendously, keeping track of it can be difficult to say the least. But many online news and information sources now publish RSS feeds. Koerber states, "RSS feeds allow you to subscribe to the latest posts and articles from a variety of sources, bringing the information to you rather than you having to go find it. You can use a feed reader... to collect and organize your various feeds... just like an individualized newspaper." She then presents tips for choosing, using and organizing the feeds in a system that works best for your needs and workflow.
See details on Koerber's presentation, Wednesday Oct 31st
Read the original Blog article: "Managing Online InfoClutter with RSS"
To take your information aggregation environment to the next level, Inmagic offers the benefits of improved RSS capability in Presto v2.1, which now accommodates all best-of-breed RSS readers. In Presto, RSS capability enables users to receive alerts on topics that they wish to monitor - and all Alert types can now be scheduled.
Read more about new features in Presto
Tips & Tricks:
From Lisa in QA:
To avoid typographical errors in Publisher names, you may want to add a [Browse] link to the Publisher box on the Edit Order page. To do so, in MyEditScreens.config, in the orders_item_edit screen, change this line:
<Field Name="OrdCatPublisher" Type="TextBox" CssClass="orders_edit_textinput_minus6" ShowBrowse="false" Required="false" Align="left"/>
To this line (which creates a [Browse] link that will display the validation list from the CatPublisher field in the CATALOG textbase):
<Field Name="OrdCatPublisher" Type="TextBox" CssClass="orders_edit_textinput_minus6" ShowBrowse="true" BrowseTN="Catalog" BrowseField="CatPublisher" Required="false" Align="left"/>
Remember to restart IIS or the World Wide Webpublishing Service using the Services window after making this change.
Note that BrowseType= defaults to VALIDATION_LIST, so the example above omits it. The line below is equivalent.
<Field Name="OrdCatPublisher" Type="TextBox" CssClass="orders_edit_textinput_minus6" ShowBrowse="true" BrowseType="VALIDATION_LIST" BrowseTN="Catalog" BrowseField="CatPublisher" Required="false" Align="left"/>
Featured Customers:
Jane Kenamore, CA, MA, was recently recognized as a "Fellow" by the Society of American Archivists. Jane Kenamore has 30 years of archives experience at institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Society of American Archivists, the Americal Medical Association and the Rosenberg Library (Galveston, Texas). She has served on the Council of the Society of Americal Archivists and the Board of the Academy of Certified Archivists. (from archivesconsultants.com)
Jane is a consultant to a number of Inmagic customers. She is a longtime user and advocate for Inmagic products.
Recently, SLA Fellowship was granted to several distinguished members who have contributed to the Association. Of the five people honored, four come from organizations that use or have used Inmagic products!
- Terri Brooks: Director, Library Services, Investment Company Institute (ICI), Washington, D.C.
- Toby Pearlstein: Director, Global Information Services, Bain & Company*
- Patricia Cia: Technical services librarian, Langara College, Vancouver.
- Wei Wei: Computer Science/Computer Engineering and Technology & Information Management Librarian in the Science and Engineering Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
*Bain & Company has been an Inmagic customer in the US, Germany, Canada,and South Africa.
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Stacey Arehart, Law Librarian at McGrath, North, Mullin & Kratz, PC will be able to buy plenty of late summer reading for herself or others, as the winner of a $250 Amazon.com gift certificate at the AALL conference in July. This was Inmagic's bring-in-your-postcard promotion; the live drawing took place Tuesday afternoon on the show floor, and the gift certificate was emailed to Stacey that very day. Congratulations, Stacey!
 Population Action International, a Genie customer, has produced a brief (nine minute) documentary: "Abstaining from Reality", which is making quite an impact - this award should help!
The UNAFF wrote: "Over three hundred sixty submissions for the tenth UNAFF were carefully reviewed for a twenty-seven hour program. We found ... "Abstaining from Reality" to be extremely pertinent and well-suited for this year's festival theme "CAMERA AS WITNESS" and feel strongly that the audience will be captivated by your work."
The festival took place October 24-28 at Stanford University. The Advisory Committee for this film festival includes: Ted Turner, Alec Baldwin, William Draper III, Danny Glover, and Susan Sarandon.
Congratulations to everyone at PAI!
Read more on the UNAFF website
See a medium-quality version on YouTube
 With nearly 44,000+ members in more than 110 countries, the American Philatelic Society (APS) is the largest, nonprofit society in the world for stamp collectors. The American Philatelic Research Library (APRL) is the largest public philatelic library in the United States. Its holdings include many of philately's classic periodicals, and it receives more than 400 current periodicals from around the world. Catalogues, government documents, auction catalogues, and a variety of other materials are available for public use.
The APS recently launched Inmagic Genie as their new online catalog for the APRL. This catalog combines four databases, three of which had been on the APRL web page for nearly a decade, and one that was only available in-house. Checkout of hardcopy materials by mail is available to Society members. With more than 20,000 book titles, more than 5,500 journal titles and a database of references to journal articles, Inmagic Genie is the place to start all your philatelic research at the APRL.
Website at www.stamps.org and catalog searchable at http://www.stamps.org/InmagicGenie/opac.aspx. Search for "bunny" in the title field to see some interesting stuff!
Museums Australia rewards its members for achieving excellence in a variety of activities. With so many of the Victorian Branch members using Inmagic software to manage their collections, it is not surprising that many of them appear in the list of winners. Recent stars include:
- Melbourne's Living Museum of the West: Pobblebonk Exhibition won the "Organisations: Staff of one to six persons" prize. The exhibition promotes the idea that communities are responsible for their own environment. Flora and fauna of the Maribyrnong River were featured.
- Yackandandah and District Historical Society: Won the "Organisations: Wholly volunteer run" award for its Fire Recovery Program. This program enabled the Society to make a comeback after a devastating fire destroyed part of its building.
- Bruce Baxter of the Pioneer Settlement Museum, Swan Hill, gained the "Individuals: Outstanding achievement" award for his commitment to teaching Koorie culture in programs for visitors to the Museum and in school communities.
Library Awards:
- Sherrey Quinn has been awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association for her "contribution to special library service provision, to improved access to information, to the wider awareness of the LIS sector in Australia and for her service to ALIA".
Congratulations to Sherrey, who made extensive use of Inmagic software in various roles in Melbourne and while providing consultancy services through Online Information Services Pty Ltd (1986-1995). During the early to mid 1990s, Sherrey documented the development of Australia's online industry and its developing databases. Her published work in this period includes the Directory of Australian and New Zealand Databases and the Recipe Book Service of Online Searching (8th to 4th editions). As a founding member of Libraries Alive! Based in Canberra, Sherrey continues to use and recommend Inmagic software where appropriate.
- Another Inmagic user was honored with a prestigious international award announced in June. Stephen Due, the chief librarian at Geelong Hospital (Barwon Health), has been named the 2007 Information Professional of the Year by the SLA Australia/New Zealand Chapter. Amongst his many and varied professional activities, Stephen is a regular face at the local Maxus Technical Workshops. He is a hard-working and enthusiastic information specialist who does his utmost to impart his knowledge and skills. Marie McKenzie, the past president of the SLA Australia/New Zealand Chapter, has stated that Stephen "has gone above and beyond to share his expertise and knowledge with his colleagues and peers".
Article reprinted with permission from Maxus News, courtesy of Inmagic Partner Maxus Australia, August 2007
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
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
Inmagic® Presto webinars
Inmagic® Presto is a Web-based enterprise application for accessing, sharing and managing research information assets.
Come learn more about this powerful research asset management tool. The session will cover many features of Inmagic Presto, including: browsing collections, searching across multiple content types, setting up alerts, and handling RSS feeds. Like Inmagic Genie, Presto has been designed to provide an easy and intuitive administrator interface.
Whether you're part of a pharmaceutical company disseminating information from R&D to medical affairs, building a product development archive to support research, creating a photo and image archive, or creating a collection of articles from external news feeds, Presto allows you to easily create and maintain collections of information assets while enabling your end users to efficiently research and share those assets. Content can be aggregated from disparate internal and external sources and deployed in intranet, extranet or Web environments.
Register here for upcoming Presto Webinars
Inmagic product training
Without leaving your office, you can benefit from the expertise of Inmagic trainers who will cover important concepts and tips to help you get the most out of your Inmagic products.
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