The press release for Horizon 7.4.2 has just gone online.
Both Talin Bingham (Chief Technology Officer) and Gary Rautenstrauch (Chief Executive Officer) use the word "worldwide" in the press release:
This new version adds functionality requested by our customers worldwide and offers great benefits to libraries and patrons alike…
Providing the features librarians need and delivering the best [...]
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Horizon 7.4.2 – available "worldwide"
Visual virtual shelf browsing
The Zoomii web site seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment, so I got wondering how easy/difficult it would be do to a virtual bookshelf in the OPAC…
It's definitely a "crappy prototype" at the moment, and the trickiest thing turned out to be getting the iframe to jump to the middle [...]
Google Graphs
We've had loan data on the OPAC for a couple of years now, although it's only previously been visible to staff IP addresses. Anyway, a couple of months ago, I revamped it using Google Graphs and I've finally gotten around to adding a stats link that anyone can peruse — you should be able [...]
2008 — The Year of Making Your Data Work Harder
Quite a few of the conversations I've had this year at conferences and exhibitions have been about making data work harder (it's also one of the themes in the JISC "Towards Implementation of Library 2.0 and the E-framework" study). We've had circ driven borrowing suggestions on our OPAC since 2005 (were we the first [...]
Sexy SirsiDynix shenanigans in sunny Southampton
(Well, it'll be sexy in-so-far as I'm including some gratuitous nudity in my session on "RSS and Social Networking" on Thursday. Will I be stripping off and revealing all in the name of "2.0"? You'll have to come along and find out!)
I'm currently sat in Manchester Airport, waiting for a budget flight down [...]
Scrum and Agile
I'm sure many SirsiDynix customers remember the terms "Scrum" and "Agile" being bandied around a few years ago during the development of Horizon 8.0. What I don't remember being as widely reported at the time was that half of the developers were based in Russia (the other half were based in Provo, USA).
Anyway, the [...]
decorative tag cloud
It's not often that I'd consider adding pure "eye candy" to the OPAC, but I couldn't decide what would be the best way of making this tag cloud functional. So, I made an executive decision and decided it shouldn't be functional
If you run a keyword search on our OPAC, at the foot [...]
Tweet Clouds
I have a confession to make — I grew bored of Twitter after a couple of days.
However, I felt obliged to keep on Twittering something… anything… so I hooked our OPAC into the feed instead. Every 5 minutes, a bit of code checks to see what the most popular keyword(s) used on our OPAC [...]
Another one bites the dust — RIP SirsiDynix EPS Rooms
Wow — looks like another flagship SirsiDynix product has been shelved. According to reports from attendees at the SuperConference, the company is dropping Stephen Abram's beloved EPS Rooms product. Never mind, "shift happens".
At the conference, the company also announced their version of Primo/Encore (branded "Enterprise"). Curiously, this will be a SaaS only [...]
Google Book Search
I think Superpatron Ed might have let the cat out of the bag already, but Google should be making an annoucement about Google Book Search tomorrow that might be of interest to libraries… can you guess what it might be?