17 March 2007
Library Software Upgrade
This coming week sees the Library’s management software being upgraded from ‘Alice’ to ‘Oliver’. Oliver will offer students and staff an extended range of services including checking their overdues, renewing their books, reserving items, receiving emails telling them automatically of new and relevant materials being added to the library catalogue, directly accessing electronic and web resources...
Oliver also comes with all the necessary administration facilities needed by the library manager: circulation, borrower file, cataloguing, stocktaking, archiving, and host of features that probably only excite professional librarians like myself! (Actually some of the features listed above were already happening with Alice). One facility I hope to use soon is a new ‘movie style’ tool which mimics the screen moves a user would make, and so show and annotate how something can be done on Oliver. Users can select the speed of replay that suits them and can pause, stop and start or select a specific point in the video to begin the video.
OLCSS Library joins an impressive list of educational establishments moving to the Oliver system, from primary to secondary schools and colleges.
Alice will be ‘frozen’ unchanged for 2 days (Wednesday and Thursday 21-22 March) but can still be used for Inquiry, and Oliver will be installed in the morning on Friday 23 March.
Oliver also comes with all the necessary administration facilities needed by the library manager: circulation, borrower file, cataloguing, stocktaking, archiving, and host of features that probably only excite professional librarians like myself! (Actually some of the features listed above were already happening with Alice). One facility I hope to use soon is a new ‘movie style’ tool which mimics the screen moves a user would make, and so show and annotate how something can be done on Oliver. Users can select the speed of replay that suits them and can pause, stop and start or select a specific point in the video to begin the video.
OLCSS Library joins an impressive list of educational establishments moving to the Oliver system, from primary to secondary schools and colleges.
Alice will be ‘frozen’ unchanged for 2 days (Wednesday and Thursday 21-22 March) but can still be used for Inquiry, and Oliver will be installed in the morning on Friday 23 March.
# posted by BH @ 2:17 pm 
