November 15, 2007 -- Emeryville, CA. Innovative announced today that California State University (CSU), Fresno has launched the general release version of the Encore discovery services platform. CSU Fresno's Madden Library is the 13th library to go live with Encore and the first to do so outside the product's development-partner group.
CSU Fresno is now using Encore to serve its community of more than 22,000 students and 1,100 faculty members. "We were looking at various, new 'front ends' to the Madden Libraries information in order to give faculty and students a more engaging and complete experience of our collections and how those collections relate to resources available out on the web," says Peter McDonald, Dean of Library Services. "We felt that Encore could best meet this challenge. It will provide a platform that will highlight our scholarly resources, as well as delivering an experience that would be both fun and provide intellectual substance to our users."
"It's gratifying for Innovative to see Encore in general release at CSU Fresno," says Senior Product Manager Dinah Sanders. "We also look forward to the remaining libraries that have selected Encore going live in the coming months."
About the Madden Library at CSU Fresno
The Henry Madden Library is the main University Library, named after Dr. Henry Madden who served as Library Director for 30 years. Today, library holdings exceed 1.2 million volumes and include the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature, the Special Collections Library, and the World's Fairs Collection, which is second in size only to The Smithsonian's collection.
About Innovative Interfaces
For over 25 years, Innovative Interfaces has dedicated its energies to meeting the needs of libraries and the challenges of library automation. The company has fulfilled this mission with first-rate services and products such as the Millennium integrated library platform, the INN-Reach direct consortia borrowing solution, Electronic Resource Management, and the Encore discovery services platform. Today, thousands of libraries of all types in over 40 countries rely on Innovative's products, services, and support. The company is located in Emeryville, California with offices around the world.
