The Miami-Dade Public Library System has announced that it has chosen AquaBrowser Library, a discovery tool offering visual, faceted searching that connects to any data source. AquaBrowser is projected to help the library’s members easily and fully explore its vast collection. Existing users of the search tool include over 700 libraries.
AquaBrowser seeks to offer users a familiar web-like experience, with the precision needed for discovery, without any disruption to the library’s backroom and staff activities. Its technology is seen to provide 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 have come to expect on the Internet, according to the company.
The tool is designed to utilise common search behaviours to deliver immediate results and relevant content from a variety of sources. Its “search, discover, refine” methodology is seen to provide visualisation and faceting features that help users quickly and easily uncover relevant results and inspire them to explore more of a library’s resources.
SerialsSolutions is the exclusive provider of AquaBrowser Library to academic and special libraries in North America. AquaBrowser North America provides the service to public libraries. The tool was developed by Medialab Solutions, a US-based provider of library software. Medialab had announced in July 2009 that, in a single year, more than 400 libraries had chosen AquaBrowser Library. In August, the eiNetwork,a collaboration of the Allegheny County Library Association and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, had announced the adoption of AquaBrowser to provide its 44 member libraries with an independent discovery layer.
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