Archive: 2006
25/10/2006 - Inmagic Genie Version 3 - Now Available!
Inmagic, Inc. today announced the general release of Version 3.0 of its web-based Genie integrated library system.
Genie v3.0 includes a number of features that increase librarians' efficiency:
A librarian's "dashboard" that delivers an up-to-date view of critical library items such as overdue loans, overdue serial issues, routed serials and active reserves, along with the ability to directly act on those items. The dashboard is fully configurable to meet each library's particular needs. "My OPAC" functionality that enables end users to be more self-sufficient. End users can log into the OPAC to view their open loans, overdues, reserves, routed serials and borrower information, instead of calling or emailing information professionals with these straightforward questions. Simplified MARC record acquisition via direct integration with BookWhere, so that the library staff can more easily find, download and import MARC cataloguing records from BookWhere into a Genie catalogue. Full configurability for any Edit screen Ability to easily duplicate records Improved performance Firefox support for OPAC searching Ability to upload and route image of Serials issue Table of Contents
- Increased search flexibility
- Improved serials workflow
- Enhanced report configurability
- Increased data flexibility in Items and Reserves
- Advanced label printing functionality
- Improved handling of multiple currencies
- Enhanced international date and number formatting
- Improved loans workflow
- Enhanced InfoCart capabilities
- Improved routing function
- Enhanced support for multi-branch libraries in call number handling
- Improved handling for multi-branch libraries in book label printing
26/01/2006 - Inmagic, Inc Announces 100th Genie Customer and Genie v2.00
Inmagic, Inc. has announced that 100 organisations have bought its Genie integrated library system (ILS) since the product's mid-2004 introduction, and that Genie v2.0 has been released. The 100 Genie customers are located throughout North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim and represent a wide range of industries. Soutron is pleased to confirm that there are 30 Genie customers in the United Kingdom.
"The market reaction to Genie has been tremendous," commented Phillip L. Green, Inmagic's President and CEO, "not only from existing Inmagic customers but also from many for whom Genie is their first Inmagic product." Mr. Green also noted that "We had introduced Genie to meet information professionals' growing need for a comprehensive Web-based ILS that can accommodate a wide range of traditional and non-traditional library materials, and that is available 24/7 via any browser for staff use and end-user self-service. Our customers also appreciate Genie's configurability and its use of standards such as SQL, .NET and XML, since -- unlike proprietary systems -- Genie can easily operate within an organisation's overall IT infrastructure."
Genie v2.0, released in November 2005, adds or enhances a number of Genie capabilities:
Expanded support for multi-branch libraries. Information professionals in organisations whose research assets are in many locations, or that have grown through acquisitions, face unique challenges for which Genie 2.0. is well-suited.
Improved support for images and documents. Genie enables information professionals to manage a wide range of documents (e.g., Word, PDF, Excel), URLs, images, and audio and video files from within the ILS. With Genie 2.0, these all can be added to the system, catalogued and full text indexed via a Web interface.
Enhanced security. Genie v2.0 provides for a greater variety of role-based permissions and improved integration with Windows authentication capabilities.
25/05/2006 - Inmagic Content Server Version 9 Is Here
Inmagic has just released Version 9 of Inmagic Content Server (CS/TextWorks and CS/WebPublisher PRO). Based on input from customers, version 9 includes a significant set of new features and functionality to help you to better use your Inmagic technology.
Major Features Include:
CS/TextWorks
- Easier to restore textbases giving you the ability to restore multiple textbases all at one time
- Support for PDF files as a standard image type; this means you no longer have to launch the Adobe reader in order to view or print a PDF
- Support for GIF images; this means GIF images can now be viewed and manipulated just like any other image format supported by TextWorks
- Data entry for documents and images has been simplified as the ability to browse and select a file name (similar to Windows Explorer) has been added
- Installation has been streamlined and simplified additionally Setup Workstation can now be run using SMS
- Batch Modify is now more powerful
- Support for special characters such as line breaks and entry delimiter
- Ability to add text to the beginning or end of an entry
- Easier for you to know where your data is by showing the full path of the secondary textbase on the Edit Textbase structure dialog box
- More flexibility by providing an option to save forms, etc. as Public by default
- Easier to manage user information by providing a method other than modifying the registry keys to change the User File Path
- Easier for you to identify which version of the product you are running by displaying the version number including Service Pack, as applicable, in the title bar
CS/WebPublisher PRO
- Browsing long validation lists is now much faster with support for paging the validation list (like when browsing the index during searching)
- Web data entry is now more robust with the ability to browse the link field (in a secondary textbase) while editing
- Support for exploded sorts, so Web reports are now more robust
- You have more control over the look-and-feel of your intranet with the ability for users to change the text on the Browse Choices button
- XML interface is more robust by handling certain characters unacceptable to XML
- Updated XML tutorial, providing developers improved documentation for using this standards-based interface
- Web developers now have access to secondary fields in and
- Addition of XML functions to support batch modification from the Web, so that Web Application developers can now accomplish more functions from the Web
- Index Browse is more robust by preventing Index Browser terms from wrapping and causing controls at the bottom of the window to disappear
- Addition of the textbase name to the XML schema, making development easier
Receiving Version 9
Inmagic customers on maintenance automatically receive Inmagic Content Server version 9 as part of their annual maintenance contract and can take advantage of the enhanced features and functionality without additional cost.
IMPORTANT: Remember, if you own both CS/TextWorks and CS/WebPublisher PRO, you need to keep both products on the same version. These products are designed to work together and therefore these products have interdependencies. So please upgrade both CS/TextWorks and CS/WebPublisher PRO to ensure they work correctly.
Some Additional Notes
Inmagic Content Server version numbering has been synchronized with DB/Text version numbering with this version 9 release. So Content Server maintenance customers on CS v1.3 will be upgrading to v9.
If you have further questions regarding CS/TextWorks and CS/WebPublisher PRO version 9 please contact us on +44 (0)870 9506080 or email info@soutron.com.
20/04/2006 - Announcing Inmagic Genie Version 2.1
Soutron announces the release of Version 2.1 of the web-based integrated library system Inmagic® Genie. Introduced in mid-2004, Inmagic Genie is used by over 100 organisations around the world.
Genie is designed to meet the changing needs of today's information centre. It provides effective access and management for both traditional and non-traditional library materials. Genie is highly configurable to meet the unique needs of each library, and requires minimal IT support. It enables information professionals to meet their organisations' growing needs by offering both end-user and back office functions 24/7 directly from the Web.
Genie Version 2.1 provides the following enhancements: