February 28th, 2011 mike
Like most of our products, Room Reserve is predominately used by public libraries. However, the colleges and universities that use Room Reserve constantly blow us away with the sheer volume of room reservations they handle on a daily basis. It’s as if all those college kids need to study or something – hundreds and hundreds of study room requests! Whoa!
When you’re handling all those requests, it’s hard to take the time to archive reservations, but we highly recommend that you take the time to do so. It’s as easy as enabling the auto-archive feature in your system settings. Grab a cup of coffee at some quiet morning hour, hunker down in your office, and do a massive bulk archive of all those old reservations. Then set the auto archive feature and suddenly, life will be quite a bit easier!
Why? You ask…
1) Your search results if you’re seeking a specific reservation will be much more brief
AND
2) Your system will become MUCH faster if you’ve had a ton of reservations just hanging out. Much faster. Faster than the cars leaving campus during Spring Break. (Impressive, no?)
Question about how to do this? Email support@evancedsolutions.com, and we’ll walk you through the details.
February 24th, 2011 mike
To view a PDF of the press release, please click here.
To view a social media release, please click here.
Indianapolis, IN – February 24, 2011 – Evanced Solutions has announced that the newest version of its popular Summer Reader software will be available March 1, 2011.
The new features, based on customer feedback, include
- a mobile web-enabled interface for registration and logging
- an improved style sheet editor
- seamless integration with Ebsco’s Novelist Select
- improved prize descriptions and tracking for staff
- plus many other additions, listed at http://bit.ly/sr-release-2011
“Our newest upgrade helps both library patrons and staff interact with Summer Reader more easily,” explained Todd Cutler, CEO and Founder of Evanced Solutions. “The ability to use Summer Reader on smart phones through the mobile web interface further extends the reach of our online reading software.”
Summer Reader is used by more than 1,500 libraries in 49 states. The software enables library staff members to easily build online reading programs, manage reading logs and prizes, and run statistical reports. Library users interact with Summer Reader to register for reading programs, log reading time, read and write book reviews, see prizes they’ve earned, and even opt to post their latest reading activity on Facebook.
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Evanced Solutions offers software and dedicated service for libraries of all types and budgets. Online tools include event calendaring with online registration (Events), meeting room booking (Room Reserve), summer reading management (Summer Reader), and library materials vending (BranchAnywhere), all designed to better attract and engage the communities libraries serve. For more information or an introductory demonstration of Evanced Solutions and their products, visit www.evancedsolutions.com or call (888) 519-5770.
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February 23rd, 2011 mike
The newest version of Summer Reader will be available the first week of March. Here is a list of the newest feature updates that you will see after your product upgrade:
- Added Mobile Interface
- Improved Style Sheet Editor – features easy navigation between programs and style classes that are easier to find now that the CSS is split up among sections rather than entire pages
- Improved Preview function – all pages can be previewed (even pages that contain patron data when the program does not contain any registrants)
- Evanced Messaging – receive important updates from Evanced when logging in or from the navigation menu
- Improved HTML layout for public pages – changed mostly table-based layout to div-based layout for easier CSS application
- Added Novelist Select support for reviews
- Added support for Random Drawing Templates – so drawing filters can be saved and recalled at any time
- Added a “Test” feature to Random Drawings – allows users to run drawings without saving results
- Added Selected Logging Type, Language Selection, Age Months and Staff Notes to reports
- Improved “Set Program Order” page and added an option for setting the order for staff-side
- Added “Member Program Exclusion” setting that allows programs to be excluded from program-selection list when a managing member adds a new child member (for family registration)
- Added “Random Drawing Prizes” role option so that permissions for awarding drawing prizes could be separate from “Random Drawings” which allows user access to perform random drawings
- Added “Other Prize Notification” pop-up which appears on the staff-side when a patron becomes prize eligible for program/patron goal prizes (configured in System Settings when using Basic Security or in Role options if using Advanced Security)
- Added Prize Descriptions – ability to add detailed message to both patron and staff describing the exact prize they have received upon reaching a reading goal
If you have any questions or would like to schedule your upgrade, please email support@evancedsolutions.com
