Tools for Every Academic Need

Your institution’s SirsiDynix solution was created with the needs of an academic setting in mind. With a fully customizable interface to suit the look and feel of your college or university, easy bulk management of documents and countless other academia-inspired capabilities, SirsiDynix Symphony is the ILS of choice for top universities worldwide.

For example, through the SirsiDynix Enterprise discovery portal, your library users will benefit from:

• A fully customizable interface to suit the look and feel of your institution
• Google-like searching, with faceted results
• Ability to add extra content such as book covers, community events and more to enhance the student discovery process
• Simple plug-in Web 2.0 options, such as user-contributed book reviews, RSS feeds for updates on favorite subjects or requested content, and more
• Integration of digitized PDFs and other documents

Through Docutek ERes and Academic Reserves your users will benefit from:

• Easy bulk management of electronic documents, course URLs and associated courses
• Multiple subfolder levels and numerous file associations available for each document
• Copyright compliance tools
• Option to allow faculty to add their own resources
• Optional e-mail alerts for students, faculty and staff when documents are added or other activity occurs
• Search of the traditional reserves collection
• Management of specialized reserve loan policies and other parameters
• Multiple reserve policies and calendars in multi-library/multi-reserve desk scenarios

SirsiDynix Materials Booking provides:

• Ability to reserve items up to 24 months in advance, on a minute-by-minute basis, so items can be booked for the exact dates and even the exact times (to the minute) needed
• Display of bookings and reservations by item or user
• Provide flexible searching, including by running time (for videos) or specific performer
• Display availability through an onscreen calendar that shows days free and days booked
• Automatically rotate equipment to distribute wear evenly across inventory
• Fixed time periods as well as minute-by-minute reservations

With new SirsiDynix mobile application, BookMyne:

• Students have 24-7 mobile access to the library catalog
• Students are sent notice of when items are about to be due, as configured by the student
• Students can place holds on multiple items at once, on-the-go
• Students can access user account information from their mobile device
• Library gets automatic style points with students for having a handy mobile app.