Contents of the Horizon Academic Library Suite

• General Module
  • Staff Searching
  • Launcher
• Horizon Acquisitions
• Horizon Cataloging
• Horizon Circulation
• Horizon Information Portal
• Horizon Reserve Bookroom
• Horizon Serials Control
• Horizon Web Reporter

Find out more about the Horizon Academic Library Suite.

The client side of Horizon offers an interface with which staff members, faculty and students will feel immediately comfortable. With its graphical icons, point-and-click commands, and pull-down menus, Horizon offers your staff an interface similar to the Windows® environment with which they are already familiar.

Through this interface, all library applications are instantly and continuously accessible from the desktop, eliminating the need for your staff to search for utilities, switch between applications, or open and close various Horizon functions. From the desktop, staff members can easily access any of the subsystems with which Horizon interacts, including acquisitions, serials, and cataloging.

Horizon enables you to order and purchase items of any type for your library collections, using your library's own workflow and procedures. The Horizon Acquisitions function supports online ordering and claiming via the EDIFACT standard. Support for recent enhancements to the EDIFACT standard further increases efficiency by enabling you to embed item information in purchase orders and thus take advantage of the shelf-ready services that an increasing number of book vendors provide.

Horizon also automates the tasks associated with ordering and recording invoice charges for serials, which it conveniently displays in reverse chronological order. Among its many practical features, Horizon Serials Control includes a publication pattern feature, which enables you to load into your system publication patterns of any type, from the simple to the complex. Armed with these publication patterns, Horizon helps you predict when the next issue of a particular publication is due to arrive; when it is past due, Horizon can automatically generate an electronic claim.

As the most technologically advanced library system available today, Horizon goes beyond your vision of an efficient, easy-to-use information management system.