VANCOUVER, BC, and WOBURN, Mass.--SydneyPLUS and Inmagic, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Inmagic’s special library business by SydneyPLUS. The Inmagic special library business includes Inmagic’s DB/Text^® Library Suite of products: DB/TextWorks^®, DB/Text^® WebPublisher Pro, and Inmagic^® Genie.

The move will strengthen both SydneyPLUS and the new Inmagic division by bringing together complementary technologies to meet the needs of special librarians, while allowing Inmagic, Inc. to focus on new markets.

For more information check out the Press Release.

Andornot’s status as an Inmagic reseller/partner will be re-assigned to the new entity and from our client’s perspective, it should be business as usual.  We are excited at the potential for future developments of the software and are looking forward to this new relationship.  Inmagic are hosting customer briefing webcasts tomorrow and Thursday  -  contact Inmagic if you did not receive their announcement with details of how to register.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) Library recently switched from an in-house built library catalogue system to Inmagic’s DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO, becoming the fifth British Columbia health authority to do so.  The new system provides staff in all the VIHA hospitals and health-related offices (and from their homes and elsewhere, too) access to more features than were previously offered.  Because the catalogue is on the Internet, the public can use it too, although requesting items is limited to staff only.  Several of the VIHA library staff have used Inmagic software in other library settings and were delighted to be using it again.

The VIHA library catalogue on the web: http://viha.andornot.com is based on the Andornot Starter Kit and features Quick and Advanced search screens, a few popular topic searches – using canned searches.  The search results include Google book covers, which add both colour to the site and links to more details about each book; icons for quick material type identification; Permalinks to provide a link that remains unchanged over time (for sharing and bookmarking); and functions for Ordering requests and Email, Save and Print for sharing or personal use. 

They now join other BC Health Authorities, including Fraser Health, Northern Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, and Interior Health, and similar health organizations; all using the same backend Inmagic software.  As a result, this facilitated the inclusion of the VIHA catalogue into the popular Health Libraries Association of BC (HLABC) OneSearch where search terms can be entered into a single search box and all the  catalogues can be searched quickly at the same time.  Librarians from all the health authorities have commented how much they like to use the OneSearch system to locate items not in their collection, thus providing a time saving search mechanism and a wonderful resource sharing tool. 

Both the new features in the VIHA catalogue and the inclusion in the HLABC OneSearch system provide greater functionality to all the VIHA users, including both staff and public alike.   Cliff Cornish, Regional Manager, Library Services, comments:

“It is wonderful to finally have a modern OPAC, and it is great to be able to participate with the other Health Authority Libraries in the HLABC search.”

For further information, contact Andornot. 

We recently revamped the Law Society of Newfound and Labrador Library (LSNLL) catalogue interface.  One of the features we added was a method to open and close the Table of Contents on the search results page.

The LSNLL catalogue interface, which uses Inmagic WebPublisher PRO, has always just had one form – a brief one - which pretty much consists of just a bibliographic citation, a call number and “see also” subject links. The previous brief form also had the Table of Contents displayed if that information was in the record. If there were Tables of Contents in several results records, this greatly added to the length of the brief list.

Rather than having a full display just to show the additional Table of Contents information and to also minimize the length of the brief display, we came up with a scripted solution that opens and closes the Table of Contents as needed.  This could also be used to expand and contract full text in a textbase record or just text on a static page. 

Here’s a short video illustrating how it works: 

The details of the method are as follows:

Download a copy of jquery.js from http://jquery.com and insert it in a scripts folder under the layout folder (referenced from head tag in the form – see below).

In the DB/Text web form:

<div class="ShowHide"><a href="#">Table of Contents</a></div>

<div class="expandDiv"><div>TableofContents</div></div>

[TableofContents is the field, the rest is added beginning and ending text]

In the website CSS:

.expandDiv {display: none;
           margin-left:10px;
           padding:10px;
           border:1px solid #BEDCE7;
           -moz-border-radius:3px;
           -webkit-border-radius:3px;
           border-radius:3px 3px 3px 3px;}

.ShowHide {margin-top:10px;
           width:150px;}

.ShowHide a {display:block;
           width:auto;
           margin:0 0 4px 0;
           padding: 3px 6px 5px 26px;
           font-weight:normal !important;
           background: #eaf2f5 url(images/folder_16.png) no-repeat 4px 50%;
           border:1px solid #BEDCE7;
           -moz-border-radius:3px;
           -webkit-border-radius:3px;
           border-radius:3px 3px 3px 3px;}

In the search results head tag:

<script type='text/javascript' src="/layout/scripts/jquery-1.4.4.js">
</script>

<script type='text/javascript'>
		$(document).ready(function () {

			//Toggle for Table of Contents
			//Switch the "Open" and "Close" state per click 
                                 then slide 
                                 up/down (depending on open/close state)
			$(".ShowHide").click(function () {
				$(this).toggleClass("active").next()
                                .slideToggle("slow");
				return false; 
                        //Prevent the browser jump to the link anchor
			});

		});
</script>

If you need help setting up this nice neat solution to open and close a Table of Contents field or any other full text field, please contact one of us.

The Centre du patrimoine (Heritage Centre) of the Société historique de Saint-Bonifaceis an archive and research facility dedicated to the preservation, study, dissemination and development of Francophone and Metis history in Manitoba and Western Canada. The Heritage Centre holds more than 500 archival fonds documenting every facet of life from culture to commerce, education to politics and religion to the economy.

"The Centre du patrimoine - Heritage Centre decided to do a completely new web site two years ago. Our goal was to have a user friendly website both for the general public doing research and for the staff updating the various sections of the site. One of the main objectives was to use as much as possible the Web 2.0 features in the limits permitted by our budget and staff resources. We wanted to have those features integrated into the database search and results interfaces as much as possible," says Gilles Lesage, Directeur général of the Heritage Centre.

Archives Database

In the fall of 2010, Andornot merged and converted various archival databases to the latest version of the Andornot Archives Starter Kit – Desktop Edition. We then created a new web interface, in French, based on the Andornot Archives Starter Kit – Web Edition. The search results include images for some records, which are dynamically generated in several sizes by the Andornot Image Handler. A selection list allows researchers to mark records of interest, then email, save or print those records, or submit them to the Heritage Center to request additional information.

Although the database and web interface are hosted by Andornot, it appears to users to be seamlessly integrated into the Historical Society’s website, thanks to tight integration between the two systems. The search interface dynamically fetches the site header, footer and navigation menu from a blank page in the Drupal content management system used by the main website and wraps it around the database search and results pages. If the main website changes, the portion hosted by Andornot will always be up to date.

The new archival web interface is available at http://archivesshsb.mb.ca/search.aspx

Voyageurs Contracts Database

The Heritage Center also asked Andornot to develop a database and web search interface for a collection of 35,000 records of contracts between fur traders (Voyageurs) and companies engaged in the fur trade in Canada between 1700 and ca. 1822.

Further information and links to articles giving background information on the database is available here. The search interface is available in French at http://voyageurs.shsb.mb.ca/search.aspx

Search results are grouped by the name of the voyageur, showing the multiple contracts many voyageurs undertook. Additional information includes parishes of origin, hiring company, length of contract, destination(s), advances and wages, supplies, conditions of hire, date of signing, and more. Eventually the Heritage Centre hopes to be able to include digitized images of these contracts.

The database was created from a FileMaker database converted to a custom-designed Inmagic textbase.

As with the archives web interface, the Voyageurs interface is hosted by Andornot, but tightly integrated with the Heritage Center’s main website.

"We are very pleased with the quality of the database products, the special features Andornot was able to integrate, the successful seamless integration into our main website and ease with which we were able to upgrade from our previous databases to this new solution. In the short time since these applications were made available online, the comments have been very positive. We were also happy to work with the Andornot people and impressed by their efficiency, attention to our goals and objectives and courteous service." says Gilles Lesage.

We are delighted to have been able to assist the Heritage Centre to improve access to these important sets of historical records. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Andornot has hosted the Northern Health (NH) Library catalogue and website on the internet for almost 10 years.  During this time it has undergone many iterations.  The most recent is one located at http://library.northernhealth.ca.

Earlier this year a new design for the NH website was implemented using the DotNetNuke Content Management System (CMS).  So while Anne Allgaier, the librarian was considering how to deal with that change, she was concurrently being pressured to move the library presence off the internet and inside to the intranet.  The major concern being that the library services were meant for internal staff only. Anne knew however, that there were plenty of users who accessed her Inmagic-based catalogue and related information from their homes or from remote locations throughout the widely distributed region.  These users would be deprived of what had become a very popular service.  Anne asked Andornot to help her find a solution to keep the library presence on the internet and to incorporate the new website design and comments:

“Andornot’s has provided the Northern Health Library with exemplary service for the past decade, providing us with solutions that make it possible to provide the level of service that the library’s clientele requires, regardless of location.”

Website Template Linking

Andornot’s philosophy has always been that web-based databases should be integrated into the website template.  So while we worked with Anne to built up layers of content on the new site to go with the library catalogue, we also liaised with the NH website developers to implement a method that taps into the always-live site template on the NH server.  This was accomplished by having a content-free page on the home server within the NH’s CMS with a specific hidden comment tag in the content area (in this case, "<!—andornot -->").  This bit of text in the content area tells our system where to parse each page's content into the source site's template.

Library Portal

So while the template remains current on the hosted site, allowing users to quickly navigate to other areas of the NH website, the library content on the site continues to grow.  It includes: 

• the BC Ministry of Health News RSS feed
• access to e-HLbc databases (requires IP authentication or username and password login)
• access to thousands of online books (requires IP authentication or username and password login)
• links to other library catalogues
• Google Book Covers with links to Google Book Previews
• Ordering cart
• a canned search (one click) and an RSS feed for recent library acquisitions
• links to various other services (Tutorials, InfoBriefs)
• Patient information website links
• Professional information website links

… thus providing NH staff, University of Northern BC medical faculty, and patients with a single access point for all sorts of resources, whether they are in the hospital, on campus, in their office, at home or on the road.