Ontario Library Association: The Enterprise Portal Solution, Rooms, and School Rooms

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Ontario Library Association The Enterprise
Portal Solution, Rooms, and School Rooms
Rob Herrmann, Executive Sales Consultant 2007
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Web Portal

• Wikipedia definition for Web portal - sites on
  the World Wide Web that typically provide
  personalized capabilities to their visitors. They
  are designed to use distributed applications,
  different numbers and types of middleware and
  hardware to provide services from a number of
  different sources.
• or a kind of Content Management System Web
  site, password protected to allow Site
  Administrators to edit text, images and other
  content as and when necessary. This allows easy
  updating of the website content without the need
  to learn programming code.

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Enterprise Portal Solution (EPS)

• The SirsiDynix Enterprise Portal Solution is a
  tool for libraries to provide personalized
  capabilities, distributed applications and
  middleware for library users.

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EPS

• Interface to your library catalog (OPAC)
• My Library
• Library web page information
• RSS Feeds
• Reading Rooms
• VRLplus Virtual Reference
• Graphical Configuration Tool

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Adding to Your Portal

• Datastream
• Federated Searching - SerialsSolutions Central
  Search
• Open_url Resolver - SerialsSolutions Article
  Linker
• Enterprise Searching (OEM) FAST Instream
• Online Booking - Evanced Solutions
• Audiobooks - Overdrive
• Subject Rooms subscription - provided by
  SirsiDynix
• Content/Context Manager - Rooms Builder

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EPS Rooms
Enhancing the Library Experience
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Solutions for EPS/Rooms
Community Rooms
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Solutions for EPS/Rooms
SchoolRooms
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School Room
Promoting Learning
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Solutions for EPS/Rooms

• Usability Studies

90 of students wanted to use SchoolRooms again
SchoolRooms Study
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