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SALIS conference presentation - Web 2.0 enhancements to your library catalog

Andornot's presentation at the May SALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists) conference in Seattle covered a lot of ideas, such as adding book covers and links to previews with Google Book Search, surfacing your content with canned searches everywhere on your website, RSS feeds etc. SALIS members who missed the presentation should be able to access it soon from the members' area of the SALIS website.

We hope to expand on this presentation at user group meetings in the fall. Please contact us if you would be interested in hosting a session.

Andornot releases selected Inmagic WebPublisher PRO enhancement scripts under an MIT Open Source license

Over the years Andornot has developed many add-on scripts that enhance the functionality of Inmagic's WebPublisher PRO software. We receive many requests for these scripts, but do not have the time to document them fully or to support them outside of the project where they were used. We have therefore decided to make them freely available under an Open Source license. Under this license, you are welcome to download, use and even modify the scripts for your own needs and projects.

We believe that releasing these scripts to the community will allow developers to add unique features specific to their websites, further increasing user satisfaction with Inmagic WebPublisher PRO.

Check out our demo site at http://ask.andornot.com and view the page source to get the path to scripts for enhancing search and display pages.

For clients without web developers on staff, we would be pleased to assist with implementation on a fee for consulting basis. Alternatively, you can purchase one of our starter kits, which include many of these scripts with sample query screens and reports showing you how to use them.

Heritage Burnaby

Andornot has completed the first phases of a major project for the City of Burnaby at www.heritageburnaby.ca. We were awarded the contract to provide software and database design services and began working on the project in July 2007. Preliminary design work involved comprehensive user-interface design and work-flow scenarios, along with a multitude of data conversions from inter-related Access databases, Excel spreadsheets, and Word documents from the city archives, museum, and planning department. The new Heritage Burnaby system was launched in a little over six months, just in time for Heritage week in February 2008. The system features multiple search interfaces and eye-catching image displays, as well as Andornot's OneSearch add-on and image maps with embedded canned searches.

For more background information on the project please see our blog posting.

McGill Hospital Libraries

For the McGill Hospital Libraries, we revised their search and display web pages with a new template. One of the new features is a one-box-search on their home page (http://muhclibraries.mcgill.ca) that searches and links to the Books database or the Journals database on the Andornot web server. This union catalog of records searches six library locations and features a bilingual interface and an RSS feed for New Books.

• Inmagic momentum continues into 2008 on the heels of investment and product advancements
• Inmagic earns Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status
• Featured Customers: Explore NASA's successful knowledge management strategy and next generation initiatives with Inmagic
• Nonprofits share information using Inmagic® Genie

• Configuration changes no longer require IIS restart
• Support on query screens for hidden query boxes and default values for query boxes
• BookWhere transform enhancements
• Presto integration
• Localization capability: French bilingual option may now be added.

A Service Pack for Genie 3.1 is also available.

Inmagic, Inc. has sent email notifications of these releases to all clients with a current maintenance contract for these products. Please email advantage@inmagic.com if you did not receive a notification.

Contact Andornot if you need to book some consulting assistance to assist with the install of these products or for training on the new features.

The DB/TextWorks URL Checker is a great tool for making sure that all those links to websites that you have added to your catalog are still valid. In version 11 you can now do a similar check for UNC links to files on your internal servers. Look for these under Tools on the top toolbar.

Check out iGoogle. This is such an easy way to create personal home pages that can list your favorites or bookmarks, local weather, news feeds, blog feeds and a host of other gadgets! You can sign in to your iGoogle page at home or at work and always have your own up-to-date information available. Google reports that there are now "tens of millions" of iGoogle accounts worldwide. You can even create an iGoogle gadget for searching your Inmagic database and publish it in the gadget directory so that your users can add it to their own pages for quick and convenient searching. Read how to do this in the Andornot Developer Blog.

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