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Horizon Information Portal Success Stories  Horizon Information Portal Takes Howard County into the Future Howard County Library in Columbia, MD, with a collection of over a million items, is not about to let the advances of technology pass it by. In fact, integrating the latest advances in technology is a stated goal in the Library's strategic plan. The latest addition? Horizon Information Portal. Information Portal offers the library's customers the same interface to the catalog from both outside and inside the library. "Horizon Information Portal is highly customizable, with the ability to alter most default wording, change colors and fonts, add fields to search results and full-bib screens and create links to other HTML pages or web sites," says Holly Johnson, Head of Technical Services. "We're creating a different version of the catalog for each of our six branches, so that each branch will have its items display first," Johnson continues. Howard County Library is also excited about Information Portal's capabilities for consolidated searching, display of enriched content, and emailing booklists and search screens. "With Horizon Information Portal, our customers can take full advantage of all that the library and the Internet have to offer," says Johnson. "Horizon Information Portal is inviting, clear, and makes it easy to read and to find the information I'm looking for. The new feature of creating your own booklist helps me keep everything in one place and makes it easy for me to reserve materials. Other great features include the ability I now have to access my own personal record to find out how many books I have checked out or when my reserve books are in. At Howard County Library, everything is now essentially at my fingertips—a couple of clicks and I'm there. Horizon Information Portal is extremely inviting and I have become a faithful user of Horizon Information Portal. It has already been beneficial to my kids, and we're excited about the new version of Horizon Information Portal just for kids."
Hennepin Claims Horizon Information Portal as Its Own Hennepin County Library is widely regarded as one of the top public libraries in the United States. They recognize that their public access catalog not only needs to be inviting and rewarding, but it should also convey the look and feel of the library. "We wanted to tie Horizon Information Portal in with the look of our library web pages," said Phil Feilmeyer, Integrated Library System Manager at Hennepin County Library in Minnetonka, MN. "Continuity of colors, logo, and layout was important to us." Horizon Information Portal's administrative tools allow for easy customization that can be performed by any library. It also permits libraries with special skills, such as Hennepin, to go beyond the standard tools and achieve some exceptional results. "We've added many things our users want," said Feilmeyer. Making account changes online is one example. "We currently receive about 100 online user updates daily." "We receive 5-10 really positive comments a day about Horizon Information Portal," noted Feilmeyer—a good indication that Hennepin's extra effort in customizing the product has paid off. |
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