SirsiDynix: Productivity Solutions
There just aren't enough hours in the day! Don't we all feel that way at work? If we just had a little more time or an extra pair of hands. Or if we could find more efficient ways to cut expenses, while maintaining or even improving services. Well, while SirsiDynix can't stop the clock or perform workplace miracles, we do offer access to an extensive suite of productivity solutions for your institution, your staff, and your users.
From the user self-service and Web Reporter... to PC and print management and debt collection tools... to voice automation systems and PDA circulation devices... SirsiDynix and our Technology Partners offer solutions that will save you and your institution time, money, and resources, while helping you better serve users. And thanks to the SirsiDynix Certification Programs, these solutions integrate with SirsiDynix systems to create more productive and efficient technology environments.
Self-Checkout/RFID
SirsiDynix has partnered with several companies to provide the most advanced self-checkout, RFID and Automated Material Handling solutions available today. Click on the tabs above to see what 3M, ITG and OneStop can do for your library.
3M
A recognized leader in research and development, 3M produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets. 3M’s core strength is applying its more than 40 distinct technology platforms – often in combination – to a wide array of customer needs. With $23 billion in sales, 3M employs 79,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 60 countries.
3M Library Systems, a global leader in library innovation for over 35 years, offers the latest in RFID, self-service, automated materials handling, security and PC management solutions, backed by a dedicated project management team and unparalleled service and support. These solutions harness technology to enable a more human library, freeing librarians to spend more time helping to create a more fulfilling and enjoying experience for library patrons.
Self-Checkout Solutions:
3M can help you create a more human library by freeing library staff from the routine task of checking materials in and out and allowing them to spend more time with customers, providing the level of service they've come to expect.
Click Here For More Information on Self-Checkout From 3M and SirsiDynix.
RFID Solutions:
By automating or simplifying many of the tasks that used to consume much of your staff’s workday, the 3M’s RFID System gives your staff the freedom to provide more personal service to your customers. The system greatly streamlines materials handling expediting circulation, enhancing security and improving shelf accuracy.
Click Here For More Information on RFID From 3M and SirsiDynix.
For more information, please contact Chris Harris (Eastern North America) or David Tuttle (Western North America).
Integrated Technology Group (ITG)
Integrated Technology Group (ITG) develops, manufactures, sells, and supports library automation technologies that empower librarians to improve operational efficiencies and better serve their patrons. With over thirty years’ experience, ITG combines smart technology and progressive design—creating cost-effective solutions for libraries in North America and around the world.
Whether you’re looking for self-checkout solutions that streamline patron transactions, Automated Materials Handling (AMH), or the latest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, ITG has the technology that will work for your library. And you’ll have confidence knowing that their expert team of development, support, and consulting professionals stands behind every solution.
ITG works with its ILS Partners to provide mutual clients with the best-of-the-best in technology solutions. These relationships ensure a perfect fit between the companies' products. Libraries whose ILS vendor is an ITG ILS Partner can purchase self-checkout, RFID, and AMH solutions directly from your ILS vendor and take advantage of the special contractual offers and benefits these partnerships afford.
Self-Checkout Solutions:
 Apex XpressCheck™ combines speed, usability, and confidentiality to enhance the library patron experience as never before. Enabling patrons to check out without assistance or supervision frees librarians to focus on those services that they are uniquely equipped to provide. ITG’s years of technology experience in bar coding, security, and self-checkout ensure that your library’s investment comes together as a state-of-the-art solution. | |
Click Here For More Information on Apex XpressCheck From ITG and SirsiDynix.
RFID Solutions:
Apex RFID™ brings together the power of radio frequency transmission and information storage. Already renowned for its intuitive and straightforward user interface, the Apex RFID products incorporate the industry’s most advanced RFID technology. This groundbreaking technology is changing the face of the library industry by improving the efficiency of library operations and greatly enhancing the patron experience.
Click Here For More Information on Apex RFID From ITG and SirsiDynix.
For more information, please contact Chris Harris (Eastern North America) or David Tuttle (Western North America).
OneStop
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Ideal Tasks for OneStop:
- Self-check of library materials
- Cash, coin, and smart card acceptance
- Credit card acceptance
- Stored value debit card dispensing
- Print release and payment
- Single or dual copier control and payment is planned
- Public PC reservation
OneStop is an integrated solution for full self-service management of library public services. With OneStop, when a user is checking out materials and a fee is owed, borrowers can pay fines immediately with cash or a credit card. A true e-commerce solution for libraries, OneStop can also be used to collect print or copy payments, or to add value to a library debit card.
The OneStop core is an attractive base-control cabinet that houses all necessary electronics. Separate internal modules control the functions.
OneStop integrates seamlessly with the full range of SirsiDynix integrated library systems as well as some systems from other vendors. Any ILS that supports SIP2 is compatible with self-check using OneStop.
So if your library, like most, is challenged by too few staff members to serve a growing number of visitors (particularly at peak times), OneStop is an important new strategic tool for your institution.
Other key features of OneStop:
- Multi-lingual, multi-currency support
- ADA Compliance
- Configuration options, including a software-only system, bundled with a touch screen-enabled PC, or integrated into a self-service kiosk
- Modular design
- Customizable to fit décor and needs
- Simple to maintain
For more information, please contact Chris Harris (Eastern North America) or David Tuttle (Western North America).
Web Reporter
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Features/Benefits
- State-of-the-art reporting technology for use with SQL databases
- Delivered with standard reports that can be customized, along with tools for creating ad hoc reports
- Reports are available through simple Web browser, providing ease and flexibility for users
- Easy-to-use solution for staff, with options for power users
SirsiDynix Web Reporter is a revolutionary reporting solution designed to work with SQL databases (Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server or DB2), although it does not require knowledge of SQL to use. It offers zero-footprint Web clients that can be used anywhere your staff has access to the Internet, including from their homes. The Web clients give the power of a Windows client with the flexibility of using a Web browser.
SirsiDynix Web Reporter is extremely easy-to-use for the staff member who just needs to run pre-developed reports. At the same time, it offers great capability for the "power user" to create new or customize existing reports.
SirsiDynix Web Reporter comes with a wide range of standard reports, including reports for circulation, acquisitions budget, serial collections, and collection development statistics. Each standard report can be easily modified and saved for future use by the library using a Web or desktop client. Ad hoc reports can also be created without having to know the underlying Horizon database table structure. Reports can be created and saved from scratch –again without knowing the database table structure, and without being a SQL programmer. Once these reports are saved, they can be easily shared with other branch libraries or other peer libraries. In addition, reports can be set up automatically to be distributed to staff at pre-determined intervals.
SirsiDynix PC/Print Management Solutions
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With SirsiDynix's suite of PC management solutions, libraries can automate the process of reserving and managing your public access PCs and free your staff up to perform other circulation tasks in the library. At the same, our print management solutions help eliminate the need to have staff monitor the print jobs for your users, whether or not your library charges a fee for printer materials.
SirsiDynix partners with a number of PC/print management technology providers, including our strategic partner EnvisionWare, to offer our SirsiDynix clients the broadest range of these valuable solutions.
SirsiDynix Debt Collection Solutions
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Libraries lose thousands of dollars every year because there just isn't the time or resources to invest in collecting long-overdue fines and fees. With SirsiDynix's integrated solution with Unique Management, Inc., your library can reap the benefits of collecting that revenue without your staff having to ask users to "pay up."
SirsiDynix PocketCirc
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SirsiDynix's handheld circulation tools give library staff the freedom to conduct daily circulation procedures as well as large inventory projects in either an offline or wireless online environment. SirsiDynix PocketCircTM is a wireless circulation unit that frees you to serve users and perform both online and offline circulation operations away from your computer with a handheld PDA device in a Windows CE environment. Combining the power of the Unicorn® Library Management System with the flexibility and ease of a PDA, SirsiDynix PocketCirc enables you to extend services, increase operation efficiency, and save staff time:
- Assist users by stepping right into lines when they form
- Move into stacks for on-the-spot assistance
- Charge materials and update records away from your computer
- Register new users or check out materials from a bookmobile or at off-site community events
- Continue helping users when networks are down
- Update inventory information while moving through the library
SirsiDynix Telephone Notification Solutions
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SirsiDynix offers solutions for use with SirsiDynix Symphony, Unicorn, and Horizon Library Management Systems, which permit libraries to use automated telephone messaging to notifying users of important information related to holds, due dates, fines, etc. Library staff, who are often limited in number and availability, are no longer tied up making telephone calls - they're free to do other more important tasks.
Telephone Messaging enables users to retrieve and update their circulation information using a touch-tone phone, relieving staff from calls about item due dates, renewals, or items on hold. Telephone Messaging also provides automatic outbound messaging to users about overdue and on-hold items.
Docutek ERes
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Fast becoming the standard for electronic course reserves, Docutek ERes is the result of close consultation with librarians and instructional technologists at leading universities. Docutek ERes includes everything you’ll need to put course reserves on the Web, with no training needed to use or even to administer the system. Docutek ERes simplifies students' access to information 24 hours a day and even provides complete copyright workflow management to help libraries ensure copyright compliance.
And with the DocuFax module comes another big plus - the power to convert paper-based materials into electronic format with nothing more than a fax machine. Learn more about Docutek ERes here and be sure to visit the Docutek website at http://www.docutek.com/
