Library Technology Guides

Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. announces Mandarin M3 available as free download. Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. has announced that effective February 14, 2005, Mandarin M3 is available free of charge. [Full Announcement].

SIRS Mandarin, Inc.. Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. announces release of M3 Web OPAC Deluxe. Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. announced the release of M3 Web OPAC Deluxe, a Web-based search tool that incorporates the functionality of the M3 Web OPAC with the powerful search capabilities of MuseSearch by MuseGlobal, Inc. [Full Announcement].

SIRS Mandarin, Inc.. Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. announces release of Textbook Module. Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. announced the release of the Textbook Module, an optional module to be used with the Mandarin M3 Library Automation System. The Textbook Module adds a textbook database to your M3 system, allowing you to track, catalog and maintain your textbook collection separately from your library collection. [Full Announcement].

SIRSI Corporation. Canadian School Districts automate libraries with Mandarin M3. School District No. 23 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Seven Oaks School Division 10 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and York Catholic District School Board in Aurora, Ontario recently awarded Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. contracts to provide the Mandarin M3 Library Automation System to their schools. [Full Announcement].

SIRS Mandarin, Inc.. Southern Ontario Library Service chooses Mandarin Library Automation, Inc.. Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. announced that the Southern Ontario Library Service, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, has selected Mandarin to provide library automation systems and services to its libraries at consortium pricing. SOLS serves 674 libraries (including branches), 173 Municipal and County Libraries, and 21 First Nation Libraries throughout Southern Ontario. [Full Announcement].

MuseGlobal, Inc.. New Mandarin Portal to include MuseSearch. Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. announced a technology partnership with MuseGlobal, Inc. in developing M3 Web OPAC Deluxe, a portal product that will complement the Mandarin M3 Library Automation software suite. [Full Announcement].

SIRS Mandarin, Inc.. Mandarin M3 is SIF Compliant. Mandarin M3 was certified as complying with the SIF-enabled Application Product Standard 1.1 on July 23, 2003. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Mandarin M3 Library Automation System releases new version of Windows OPAC. The Mandarin M3 Library Automation System recently upgraded its M3 Windows OPAC to include patron access to personal account information, enhanced tagging, sorting capabilities and more. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. New enhancements and reports added to Mandarin M3. Educational publisher and software developer SIRS Mandarin, Inc. continues to enhance its popular Mandarin M3 Library Automation System with a variety of new features, updates and reports designed to provide users with optimal flexibility and ease-of-use. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Libraries turn to Mandarin M3 for automation needs. A growing number of school, academic and public libraries worldwide are turning to the Mandarin M3 Library Automation System for their automation needs. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Pettes Memorial Library to automate collection with Mandarin M3 library automation system. SIRS Mandarin, Inc. recently announced that one of Quebec''s oldest public libraries, Pettes Memorial Library, located in Knowlton, Quebec, will automate its collection of 20,000 English and French titles with the Mandarin M3 Library Automation System. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. A growing number of Canadian and international institutions select the Manadarin M3 library automation system. A growing number of school, public and special libraries in Canada and across the globe are turning to Mandarin M3 to meet their various automation needs. Hellenic Community Library, Chinook Winds Adventist Academy, Conseil Scolaire Catholique Franco-Nord, Bishop Carroll High School, I.V. Macklin School, Mennonite Brethren Collegiate, Hawkesbury Public Library, Bibliotheque Publique de Moonbeam, International Academy of Design, Baie D''Urfe Library, Bialik High School and Alexander Von Humboldt School are among the Canadian institutions that have recently purchased M3. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Visit booth 3817 at ALA for special presentations of SIRS Mandarin Products. At the ALA Annual Conference SIRS demonstrated its new SIRS Knowledge Source interface, the Mandarin M3 Library Automation System, and previewed the SIRS NetSelect guide to Internet resources [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Mandarin M3 Version 1.1 offers a variety of union catalogs. Libraries of all sizes can now choose from three union catalogs available in the Mandarin M3 Library Automation System Version 1.1. M3 union catalogs eliminate duplicate purchases and redundant cataloging and enable multiple libraries to share resources and electronic records. In addition, M3 union catalogs offer users flexible MARC record searching capabilities. Suitable for school, public, academic and special libraries, M3 is powered by a proprietary search engine specifically designed to search full MARC records. M3 not only conforms to the most advanced bibliographic and technological standards, its Windows functionality makes it highly navigable for users of all ages. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Mandarin M3 Verion 1.1 released with new features: award-winning library automation system adds enhanced searching capabilities, scoping, multi-language support and a union catalog hosting service. Enhanced union catalog capabilities, multi-language support and expanded database functionality are among the special new features available in the recently-released version 1.1 of the Mandarin M3, according to SIRS Mandarin, Inc., developer of the library automation system. Library patrons will enjoy the many user-friendly enhancements added to M3 such as Visual Catalog, a graphical search method now available on the M3 OPAC and Web OPAC which enables patrons to perform searches based on visual cues as well as text. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Secretary of Department of Education of Puerto Rico presents project Saber, Puerto Rico's centralized automation network. 120 School and Public Libraries in Puerto Rico will be automated with the SIRS Mandarin M3 library automation system in the project''s initial phase. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. SIRS Mandarin premieres additional content databases and library automation graphical interface at ALA. SIRS Mandarin, Inc. announced that the company is expanding its offering of additional content databases in SIRS Researcher and SIRS Discoverer Deluxe online reference databases, as well as adding a new graphical interface to the SIRS Mandarin M3 Library Automation System. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Puerto Rico department of education to announce centralized library automation network at December 14 presentation. Educators, librarians and administrators representing public schools and libraries throughout Puerto Rico will gather for the presentation of Project SABER (Electronic Libraries Network Automation Systems), Puerto Rico''s island-wide centralized library automation network. Project SABER, developed and implemented by the Department of Education of Puerto Rico, is part of the Department''s efforts to revolutionize the educational process in Puerto Rico by creating a centralized educational network. Over 640,000 Puerto Rico students are projected to benefit from the network. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. Vigo Public School District automates more than 30 schools with SIRS Mandarin M3. SIRS Mandarin, Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide the SIRS Mandarin M3 Library Automation System to the Vigo County School Corporation in Terre Haute, Indiana. [Full Announcement].

SIRS, Inc.. 76 public schools in Indianapolis, Indiana to be automated with SIRS Mandarin M3. SIRS Mandarin, Inc. announces that 76 public schools in Indianapolis, Indiana will be automating their library collections with the SIRS Mandarin M3 Library Automation System. [Full Announcement].