List of Encore libraries

Terry Ballard is maintaining a list of Encore libraries.

Also lib-web-cats (These results include libraries that have licensed Encore but may not yet be in production)

What’s brewing blog

A new III blog was created on 29th Feb 2008. It contains posts from Dinah, Robert, Sandy, Spenser, Stephanie and Ted on software development, product management, service, and even sales (scary).

Whats brewing url: http://brewing.iii.com/

Encore website

The new Encore website url: http://www.encoreforlibraries.com/main.html

Focus on Encore

The Inn_Touch newsletter Vol.20 No.3 has a strong focus on Encore with some similar diagrams to those Graham used in his Encore presentation.

Post exchange day

The presentations given by Karen, Alan, Roy and Andrew are now available from this blog. There is a page called “Speak to Dinah” where you can communicate important points to Dinah.

Those EIUG members who did not attend the day at Warwick can look at the presentations and may also leave comments for Dinah.

The EIUG WebPAC Pro day’s programme and list of participants has been archived on the ‘About’ page.

Cheers,
Graeme

Style sheet note

I hope the day goes well – I am sure it will.

I have help for Catherine’s comment about ie display

In the current example set there is a styles_ie.css but it is missing a vital set of 18 lines which were present in the previous example set (it is going to be corrected in the next example set but I do not believe it has been released yet.)

I have emailed a file with those lines in place to Graeme at Warwick- it will need renaming. Please share it with anyone who needs it.

Regards
Debbie Turner

Useful resources for sites converting to WebPAC Pro

Going Pro Tour
http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/references/going_pro.shtml

WebPAC Pro FAQ
http://csdirect.iii.com/faq/webpacpro.shtml

Both require CSDirect password.

cheers,
Dinah

Feb 19, 11:10 PM (Reposting of Dinah’s comment to ‘This blog’)

This blog

This blog supports the EIUG WebPac Pro Exchange Day of Experience. Feel free to use the Comment and Reply functionality to add comments.

Note that there is a comment from Dinah at the bottom of the ‘WebPAC Pro catalogues’ page.

Catalogue tools at Warwick

At Warwick we use the following web tools to help us.

1. Dreamweaver 8 – web page and css editing, ftp.
2. Firefox add ons – Web developer and Aardvark.
3. Cute FTP 7 – alternative ftp
4. Top Style Pro 3 – css editing
5. Google Analytics – catalogue web page statistics
6. Pixie – fast and tiny colour picker

If any of the EIUG WebPAC Pro day participants would like to see any of these tools demonstrated on the day I could do this informally during lunchtime (1-2) or after the meeting (4-5.30).

Graeme Leng-Ward, University of Warwick Library

New sort functionality in WebPacPro

Relayed from Betsy Graham (Email to GLW on 9th Jan 2007),

Dartmouth and Bowling Green are testing improvements to the Right Result sorting functionality. The Link+ INN-Reach system in California is as well. We felt that it was too hard, and not at all intuitive, to get out of the relevance sort and back into sorting by date or title. Thus, we’ve done a series of modifications to improve the way this new functionality works. I expect to announce the availability of this software in a few weeks. We’re waiting for the Release 2006 maintenance bundle 1.2 to become generally available and will announce and make available this special bundle right after that. We’ll install the changes at every WebPAC Pro site as quickly as we can. I see that your library has not moved to WebPAC Pro yet. If you wait until the special software bundle is announced, when you “go Pro” you will get the software you see at Dartmouth.

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts on this. RightResult relevance ranking is not only an evolving algorithm, but will evolve in these related functional ways as well so I am very interested to hear what people would like to see next.

My regards,

Betsy Graham
Vice President, Product Management
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.