The eiNetwork, a collaboration of the Allegheny County Library Association and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, has opted for the AquaBrowser library software, which provides libraries with visual and faceted search solutions.
AquaBrowser will provide eiNetwork’s 44 member libraries — which have holdings of nearly 4 million items — with an independent discovery layer. The Medialab Solutions product seeks to offer users a contemporary web experience without any disruption to the library’s backroom and staff activities. It also seeks to provide technology that empowers users with an intuitive and attractive interface on top of an existing catalogue. The library internally keeps working the way it always has, but customers get the kind of search and Web 2.0 experience they’ve come to expect on the Internet.
Existing users of AquaBrowser include 600 libraries. Other large consortia offering AquaBrowser to their users include Ramapo Catskill Library System (NY), Metropolitan Library Network System (MN), Upper Hudson Library System (NY), Southeastern Libraries Cooperating System (MN), Library Integrated Network Consortium (IL), MARINet (CA) and Prairie Area Library System (IL).
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