June 24, 2010
Emeryville, CA—Among the many recent SkyRiver adopters, three implementations stand out as especially successful as they demonstrate SkyRiver’s ability to satisfy the specific needs of a variety of library types. These include: St. Lawrence University (NY), SAILS Consortium (MA), and Capital Area District Library (MI) representing academic, consortium and public library types respectively.
Bart Harloe, Director of Libraries, St. Lawrence University, says “the significant cost savings in going to SkyRiver were, of course, important; but it was just as important to me for the technical services staff to be comfortable with the change. Their concerns all were addressed, particularly with regard to approval vendor integration, so our transition has been smooth and successful.”
In addition to realizing cost savings, the SAILS Consortium needed to see that SkyRiver could integrate easily with its SirsiDynix Symphony™ system which was the case from the first day. SAILS also required SkyRiver to support its existing, highly streamlined workflows for which batch searching was central. Executive Director Deborah Conrad, says “SAILS could not have moved to SkyRiver without the development of a robust batch searching function. We’re proud to have been a development partner for this feature, which works splendidly.”
Catherine Welscher, Associate Director for Technical Services at Capital Area District Library says, “what was most impressive about our SkyRiver implementation was how quickly the staff learned to navigate the cataloging client software, find what they needed, and download the data. With our 13 locations plus bookmobile, we need to work efficiently with minimal staff, so we really appreciated the easy transition to SkyRiver.”
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