Emeryville, CA—Innovative announced today that, in the first half of 2015, over 600 libraries selected Innovative library systems, which include the Sierra Library Services Platform and the Polaris ILS. These selections show the growing excitement around Innovative's Open Library vision for libraries, known as the Open Library Experience.
The focus of the Open Library Experience is on achieving successful experiences for users each time they interact with the library. A common goal among these institutions is creating an environment where every user feels "my library understands my needs and exceeds my expectations." Adoption of Sierra Mobile Worklists, Polaris Leap, Encore Duet, and Sierra REST APIs offer efficiencies in the way libraries deliver services to their users.
The Open Library Experience is powered by a cloud-enabled and evolutionary technology architecture called the Open Library Stack (OLS). The OLS meets even the most demanding needs of library staff and users by utilizing the Cloud -- a high availability and elastic infrastructure that accommodates new data sources and capabilities -- to provide the robust functionality that migrating libraries use today with the sustainability needed for the future.
The following library systems selected Innovative and represent over 600 libraries:
- Alexander Mitchell Public Library (Aberdeen, SD)
- American Museum of Natural History (NY, NY)
- Beaver County Library System (Aliquippa, PA)
- Berks County Public Libraries (Leesport, PA)
- Bibliothèque Méjanes (Aix, France)
- Black Country Libraries Partnership (West Midlands, UK)
- Botswana College of Agriculture (Gaborone, Botswana)
- Boulder Public Library (Boulder, C0)
- Burlington County Library (Mount Holly, NJ)
- Carrollton Public Library (Carrolton, TX)
- City College of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
- City of Palo Alto Public Library (Palo Alto, CA)
- Cornerstone University (Grand Rapids, MI)
- Danbury Public Library (Danbury, CT)
- Downey City Library (Downey, CA)
- École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France)
- El Segundo Public Library (El Segundo, CA)
- Elgin County Library (ON, Canada)
- Finkelstein Memorial Library (Spring Valley NY)
- Fletcher Free Library (Burlington, VT)
- Fresno Pacific University (Fresno, CA)
- Gold Coast City Council Library (Gold Coast, Australia)
- Helen Plum Memorial Library (Lombard, IL)
- Humboldt County Library (Eureka, CA)
- Huntington Library (San Marino, CA)
- London South Bank University (London, UK)
- Lorain County Community College (Elyria, OH)
- Los Rios Community College (Sacramento, CA)
- Manatee County Library (Bradenton, FL)
- Maryland State Law Library (Annapolis, MD)
- Middlesex County Public Library (ON, Canada)
- Municipal Library Consortium (University City, MO)
- National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taichung, Taiwan)
- National Technical University of Athens (Athens, Greece)
- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty, IA)
- Nova Scotia Legislative Library (Halifax, Canada)
- Pima Community College (Tucson, AZ)
- Riverside Public Library (Riverside, CA)
- Santa Clara Public Library (Santa Clara, CA)
- Saskatchewan Information & Library Services Consortium (SK, Canada)
- Savannah College of Art & Design (Savannah, GA)
- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (Pretoria, South Africa)
- Shawnee State University (Portsmouth, OH)
- Siouxland Libraries (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
- St. Thomas Public Library (ON, Canada)
- Texas A&M University-Kingsville (Kingsville, TX)
- Trident Technical College (Charleston, SC)
- Universiti Islam Malaysia (Selangor, Malaysia)
- Universiti Utara Malaysia (Sintok, Malaysia)
- University of Arkansas – Fort Smith (Fort Smith, TX)
"Innovative continues to enjoy success in the marketplace because we provide solutions that are the right fit for any kind of library or consortium," says SVP of Global Sales Bill Schickling. "We believe this group is a good representation of the diversity of our expanding customer base in terms of library type and geographic region. We are continuing to see strong sales this year in part due to our dedication to development of additional Sierra RESTful APIs and Polaris Leap, a responsive Web client that provides key public services workflows to library staff through a browser."
These libraries' previous systems came from competing vendors, including: Ex Libris Ltd.; Capita; Axiell Systems; Civica Library Solutions; SirsiDynix; and Insignia Software.
Innovative (www.iii.com) is dedicated to providing leading technology solutions and services that empower libraries and enrich their users worldwide. Innovative offers one of the broadest and most complete portfolios of library automation products on the market today. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Innovative serves thousands of libraries in 66 countries and has offices around the world.