LYRASIS Technology Services Announces Discovery and Delivery Software Expansion
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sacha.turpin@lyrasis.orgLYRASIS Technology Services Announces Discovery and Delivery Software ExpansionThe LYRASIS Discovery Layer Service, offered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription, can be configured for consortia and single-site libraries. With a “tiered configuration” multiple libraries or library branches can set up search targets for subscriptions held in common, while allowing each library or branch to add and customize search targets to meet the needs of their patrons. Consortia can also take advantage of the automated request-handling system from Relais International that allows patrons to view real-time status displays of copies in consortia members’ catalogs and make requests for those items.
The LYRASIS family of SaaS discovery and delivery services, all designed with the ease of installation and operation in mind, meet a variety of library needs:
LYRASIS Discovery Layer Service:
- The LYRASIS Discovery Layer for Single-Site Libraries provides a single discovery interface to optimize the user’s ability to discover material in the library’s catalog and selected electronic resources, both subscription and freely available.
- The LYRASIS Discovery Layer for Multiple-Site Libraries is for groups of libraries or library consortia where there are multiple catalogs and/or layers of subscription and free databases to be managed amongst a group for optimization of discovery. Library groups can choose to add the real-time item status display and patron-initiated requesting feature from Relais International.
Relais International DLS-Related Services:
- RELAIS ILL converts libraries’ ILL operations into a more streamlined, efficient service by automating the routine tasks, supporting unmediated services and fully integrating ILL with delivery of documents to the requester.
- Relais Express converts paper documents to electronic format, or uses existing electronic documents, and delivers them to users or to other libraries.
- The Relais Scanning Workstation is a completely integrated and ergonomically efficient work environment for scanning superior quality documents with Relais ILL and Relais Express.
- Relais D2D seamlessly integrates the discovery experience with request management, circulation interoperability, and delivery irrespective of the multiple ILS used by the participating libraries within the consortium. D2D optimizes the user’s ability to discover items of interest in library catalogs and get immediate access to, or request delivery of, the material with minimal or no intervention by staff.
“Single search box discovery tools have become important ways for patrons to find licensed and open access content curated by libraries. LYRASIS is excited to offer these options that will expand the ability of a greater number of library members to provide the benefits of these technologies to their users,” stated Peter Murray, Assistant Director of Technology Services Development, LYRASIS Technology Services.
About LYRASISCreated in April 2009 by the merger of PALINET and SOLINET and joined shortly thereafter by NELINET, LYRASIS is the nation's largest regional, non-profit membership organization serving libraries and information professionals – providing opportunities for networking and collaboration, offering innovative solutions and delivering significant cost savings through group purchasing for products and services. For more information, please visit
www.lyrasis.org.
About Index DataIndex Data is a software development and consulting enterprise headquartered in Copenhagen and the United States, with offices in several countries. They are experts in networked information retrieval and management based on open standards, and have a seventeen-year history of releasing advanced software components as open source. Their mission is to use their skills and creativity to build bridges between people, technologies and organizations, and to empower information providers to deliver better, more integrated services. For more information, please visit
www.indexdata.com.
About Relais InternationalRelais™ International Inc is based in Ottawa, Canada and has been selling systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services since 1996. Relais International (
www.relais-intl.com) assists libraries in implementing intelligent and automated methods to support the delivery of documents. Relais products range from scanning stations through to fully integrated request management, scanning and delivery software suitable for a single library through to a consortium.
