Destiny Quest™ Combines Broad-Based Search, Social Networking Features July 29, 2009
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A new online searching interface for the digitally native student is Destiny Quest™, a new feature within the widely used Destiny Library Manager™ solution, combining a visually engaging interface, broad-based integrated searching power and social networking components to create the new library for the 21st century learner.
For a live demo of Destiny Quest, click HERE.
Destiny Quest connects the teacher and student with resources to support curriculum and encourage development of research tools they’ll need for today’s new information environment. The new interface fosters greater collaboration among students, teachers, media specialists and parents. Destiny Quest strengthens the library-classroom connection and helps improve information literacy by providing technology tools to effectively search, manage, organize and interpret vast amount of information from the district’s collection and across the Internet.
Engaging Interface, Collaboration Tools
Destiny Quest offers new features today’s digitally native students expect in an online interface:
- Engaging, visually rich interface: Destiny Quest features a new, graphically engaging interface that offers many of the same visual cues they’re used to from popular Internet sites. Cover images of books available through TitlePeek™ are featured in more locations, and there’s more dynamic, click-and-drag action than in a more traditional search interface.
- Students rate, review, share opinions on books: Destiny Quest lets students give star ratings to books, and they can write expanded, moderated reviews on books they’ve read. Students can read the reviews of others, creating an engaging social networking environment.
- New “My Info” Space: Students can bookmark and store information sources they like in a personalized space for immediate, easy retrieval wherever they use Destiny®.
- Virtual Shelf Browsing: Destiny Quest features a Carousel View that lets students browse the actual library shelves online, seeing books on either side of the book they’ve found in a search. The feature makes it easier to find related titles that are available in the school library.
- Multiple Library, Internet Results Integrated in One Easy Search: Students and teachers can search every library among several, plus with Enriched Content Services, they can also search educator-approved websites and other digital content. Search results integrate all results seamlessly.
- Next-Generation Search Tools: Destiny Quest features an arsenal of search tools to help users find information faster and navigate more intuitively. Searches can be narrowed by keyword, author, publication year and other terms to produce more refined results. A “You May Also Like” feature makes active recommendations for further reading based on the student’s search history and circulation history. Destiny Quest also features a menu that drops down while the student enters a search term, providing spelling suggestions and alternate search terms based on previous searches. As students dig down into search results, they see a trail of search levels at the top of the screen, allowing them to backtrack to any level with one click of the mouse.
- Digital Content Immediately Available: When digital content, like eBooks, video or audio files, show up in search results, students can access them directly by clicking on them, without having to exit Destiny.
Destiny Quest has been part of the Destiny Resource Management Solution™ since version 8.5. For a live demo of Destiny Quest, click HERE.
Destiny, Cir/Cat and Inmagic Presentation at ASLP Seminar- Workshop in Aklan May 12, 2009
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It was another gainful day for those who attend the three-day seminar- workshop, organized by the Association of Special Libraries of the Philippines (ASLP), last May 6-8, 2009 at Sampaguita Gardens Resort, Poblacion, New Washington, Aklan. This year’s theme is “Collection Management: Current Trends, Practices and Future Directions”.
As part of our commitment to a good service for Philippine libraries, providing them new technology to cater their library needs, EISI who came as an exhibitor once again was given a chance to present our newest products. First, the Follett’s Destiny Library Manager software, a totally web-based library automation and educational asset management software for consortia and multiple campuses with all functions like OPAC, cataloging, circulation, inventory, reports and others requiring no more than a web browser. Also, the Follett’s Cir/Cat (Circulation Plus, Cataloging Plus and Web Collection Plus) that includes a fully integrated database accessible from the different modules and which may be searched over the internet and all data entered are compliant with MARC 21, the standard data format for libraries. Lastly, the Inmagic information management software that organize and deliver enterprise content, seamlessly integrate internal and external content sources and deploy business critical information to corporate portals, intranets, extranets and the Web.
Thank you ASLP for trusting our products! EISI got a plaque of appreciation from this active and enthusiastic group of special librarians.
Luzon Sales Engineer, Ms. Snooky Ignacio welcomes the participants at EISI booth (left) and while presenting our products to ASLP participants (right).
ASLP Participants during the seminar-workshop
Inmagic Gets Venture Capital January 4, 2008
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Inmagic ended the previous year with a bit of good news. It received a substantial amount of venture capital from Edison Venture Fund to finance product development and other initiatives to vastly improve its customers’ experience, including forays into Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and social networking and expansion of marketing, sales and support.
For more on this, view their press release and FAQ.
Bookwhere v6 Features Record Scoring and Rating Service August 3, 2007
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Webclarity software recently released Bookwhere version 6 which introduces the traffic light metaphor (
Good,
Average,
Poor or 
Unknown) to easily identify the quality of the data or the MARC records. Customers with current maintenance subscriptions may download this new version for no additional charge. Check out the exciting new features.
NASA Uses Inmagic June 29, 2007
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA is the government agency responsible for the United States of America’s space program and long-term general aerospace research. Hundreds of individuals across NASA need to access imaging assets, which are critical to the safety of NASA’s space shuttle missions, in order to monitor launch results, reviews design decisions and insure mission safety. Additional video footage and still images shot on orbit enable NASA engineers to compare pre-flight and in-flight images in order to asses functionality and highlight areas that warrant further scrutiny.
Until recently, however, only the Image Analysis Team staff could view these baseline images, and sometimes with delays because of the complexity of accessing them.
To make the baseline images readily available outside of the Images Analysis Teams (IAT), NASA turned to Inmagic Presto software as the foundation of its Institutional Computerized Archiving System, or ICAS. Presto opens the baseline images for use by the broader NASA community by organizing those images and providing direct 24/7 Web-based access for all authorized users. Presto also is used to archive motion picture film and video footage captured during a mission, and in the future will be used to distribute that footage as well.
NASA Integration Lead Chuck Brown explained that they choosed Presto because of it’s unique ability to archive, manage and provide broad access to imaging assets. Inmagic Inc. is the global leader in enterprise Research Asset Management. Inmagic is sold in the Philippines by EISI. For more information, visit www.inmagic.com or click on the contact tab above. From Inmagic Press Release.
