This document summarizes the presentations and product announcements from the 2010 COSA USER CONFERENCE held on October 26-27 on the Gold Coast. It outlines enhancements to the Horizon and Symphony integrated library systems, including new features for circulation, requests, holds, and stock rotation. It also describes the new Portfolio digital asset management system and BookMyne iPhone app enabled by new Horizon web services. Finally, it provides the 2010-2011 roadmap for upcoming releases of these and other SirsiDynix products.

1. 2010 COSA USER CONFERENCE | 26-27 OCTOBER | GOLD COAST
What’s On the Horizon
Liz Pitts, Director Global Sales Support & Training
SirsiDynix

2. 2010 COSA USER CONFERENCE | 26-27 OCTOBER | GOLD COAST
• Horizon 2010 Product Plan Available on Client Care Portal
• Windows 7 Staff Client – Available now w/release 7.5a
• Rental fees for chargeable items
– Calculated at CheckOut and Renewal
– Fees May Be Waived
– SIP2 responder updated to extend rental functionality to TalkingTech TM3 and PocketCirc
• Requests/Holds Enhancements
– Fees may be charged at time of request placement, hold fulfillment, or hold shelf expiry
– Allow/Disallow a borrower from placing requests on items which they currently have on loan
– Set maximum number of requests a borrower can place on a single title
• Circulation History
• ITYPE Grouping
• Stock Rotation
– By group or individual Item
– Pull lists
– Optional permanent rotation
• Duplicate ISxN Title checking
– In both Acquisitions PO and Cataloging MARC editor
• Item Status Editor integrated into core software
Horizon 7.5.1 Enhancements

3. 2010 COSA USER CONFERENCE | 26-27 OCTOBER | GOLD COAST
• Updated to support Requests & Renewals Fees
• Last Authentication Date automatically updates on Borrower
record when patron successfully logs in
• Improved Z.3950 Server Configuration tools
• Added option to allow patrons to remove default HIP search
limit.
• 100+ Bug Fixes/Usability Enhancements
HIP 3.2.1 Enhancements

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New Circulation Parameters in Table Editor

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Rental Fees

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Holds Fees – HIP Integration

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Stock Rotation

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ISxN Duplicate Title Check

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SirsiDynix Enterprise 3
– Easy to Use Content Management Tool
– Java script Integration with Social networking sites
LibraryThing, Google Books, Twitter, ChiliFresh, reddit, etc.
– Library look and feel via CSS
– Federated Search
Interface to 360 Search/WebFeat & z39.50 databases
– Reporting with Google Analytics
SirsiDynix Enterprise 4
– Locally-hosted option
– Bowker ICE Integration
– Language label manipulation at page level
Discovery Platform Enhancements

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Enterprise – Content Management

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Enterprise with integrated Social Networking &
Bowker ICE search

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Enterprise with Google Analytics

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Portfolio Digital Asset Management
– Replaces Horizon Digital Library
– Full-text searching in various document types (PDF, Word, XML)
– Browsable asset hierarchy
– Multiple asset views tied to login
– Bulk loader
– Metadata display customization
– Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting server
Discovery Platform Enhancements

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Portfolio – Asset Search

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Portfolio – Asset Management

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• Creates tighter integration with SirsiDynix Enterprise
– Real time item availiblity
• Enables BookMyne – iPhone App
– Compelling iPhone app to discover library materials, place
requests, renewals, and discover participating libraries
– WebServices purchased as an addon
– BookMyne available free from Apple’s iTunes store
• Delivery 2011 Q1
– Initially available to libraries on Horizon 7.5 and above
– Future BookMyne/Webservices releases will be back-
ported to Horizon 7.4.2
Horizon Web Services

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BookMyne – Find Libraries

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BookMyne – Library Search

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BookMyne – Library Search

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BookMyne – Library Search

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BookMyne – Library Search

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BookMyne – Email or Place Hold

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BookMyne – My Account

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BookMyne – My Account

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BookMyne – My Account

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• Item Group Editor
• Circulation Multi-select/Right Click Options
– Batch Edit Notes, Check In, Modify Due Dates, etc.
• Holds Pull List
• XML Report Output
Key Symphony 3.4 Enhancements For Horizon Users

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Symphony 3.4 Item Group Editor

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Symphony 3.4 Item Groups – Merge & Archive

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Symphony 3.4 Holds Pull List

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Symphony 3.4 Multi-Select/Right Click

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Symphony 3.4 XML Report Output

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• Virtualization: Software systems that act as if they
were hardware systems
• Performance and functional testing of Horizon db
server and HIP
– Horizon 7.5 and HIP 3.20 – will re-certify Hz7.5.1 & HIP3.21
– Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Sybase ASE 15
• Outcome: published benchmark results
– VMWare ESX 4 and ESXi 4 on “bare metal” compared to Windows
– Difference in RAM and CPU usage between VM and non-VM systems
• Updated Client Care statement
Horizon Virtualization

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• For your Horizon database server, the minimum requirement is a supported 32-bit
operating system. However, SirsiDynix recommends the use of a supported 64-bit
operating system.
• Recommendations based on Horizon systems with 1-100 Users and up to 250K Bibs
Horizon 7.5.1 – Server Specifications
Minimum Requirements Recommended Specifications
HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux
1GB RAM 1GB RAM
450MHz Processor 900MHz Processor
Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
1 GB RAM 1GB RAM
1GHz Processor 2GHz Processor

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Horizon 7.5.1 – Databases and Operating Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Sybase 15.0.3 ESD#3 or higher
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is supported on the
following operating systems and versions:
Sybase is supported on the
following operating systems and versions:
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 or greater • Solaris 9 or 10
• Windows Server 2008 • HP-UX 11.11 or greater (RISC only)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 • AIX 5.2 or greater
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 ES or 5.0 ES
• Windows Server 2003 SP1 or greater
• Windows Server 2008

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Horizon 7.5.1 – Staff Workstation Specifications
Requirement Minimum Recommended
CPU Pentium III 864 MHz Pentium IV 1.4 GHz or greater
RAM 256 MB RAM
512 MB RAM (Windows XP)
1 GB RAM (Windows 7, Vista)
Hard disk 100 MB free disk space 1 GB free disk space
Network card
10/100 network interface
card 10/100 network interface card
CD-ROM Drive 2X speed or greater 20X speed or greater

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Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
2010 20112009
Q4
Symphony 3.4 Symphony 4.0Symphony 3.3.1
DS 4.9
Horizon 7.5.1/HIP 3.21 Horizon 7.5.2/HIP 3.22
Horizon
Virtualization
Portfolio 4.0 Portfolio 5.0
Enterprise 3.1 Enterprise 5.0Enterprise 3.1.1
Director’s Station 4.8.1.1 DS 4.8.2
Web Reporter 3.4Web Reporter 3.3.1 Web Reporter 4.0
Symphony - German
Symphony Patron iPhone
App v1.0
Symphony Patron iPhone
App v2.0
Library Intelligence (LI) 5.0
Symphony - French Symphony – Spanish & Catalan
Enterprise 4.0
Language Pack Updates
for Symphony 3.4
Released
In Development
Planned
2010-2011 Product Roadmap

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Liz Pitts
liz.pitts@sirsidynix.com
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