Emeryville, CA. Innovative announced today that Encore had its first installations in Cyprus, Finland, France, and South Africa in just the last four months. The libraries are Helsinki Metropolitan Libraries (Finland), Neapolis University Pafos (Cyprus), Université François-Rabelais Tours (France), and University of South Africa. Encore's customer base now extends to over twenty countries.

"Encore is being embraced as a solution around the world," says John McCullough, Vice President, Encore Division. "This is a testament to the motivation of libraries worldwide to bring everything together for their communities in a single results set." Libraries have implemented Encore in a variety of languages including Arabic, Catalan, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Welsh.

About Encore

The Encore discovery services platform (www.encoreforlibraries.com) transforms how users uncover the rich and varied resources the library has to offer by uniting content, community, and discovery. No matter which ILS a library uses—or its level of development resources or staff expertise—Encore provides a reliable solution that makes it easy to offer the latest information technologies. At its"www.encoreforlibraries.com" core is the Encore Framework developed using modern, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software design principles. The Framework supports a suite of robust applications and Web Service offerings that can be tailored to meet the needs of any library. What's more, the Encore Services team backs the product with in-library installation, hosted options (SaaS), and more. With Encore, it's all right here.

About Innovative Interfaces

Innovative Interfaces (www.iii.com) dedicates 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, INN-Reach resource sharing, Electronic Resource Management, and the Encore discovery services platform. Today, thousands of libraries of all types in over 50 countries rely on Innovative's products, services, and support. The company is located in Emeryville, California with offices around the world.