Millennium Comes to Louisville Public Library

On February 27, 2008, Louisville Library patrons, along with those from Stark County District Library and Massillon Public Library, will see some changes. The new Millennium catalog system from Innovative Interfaces, Inc. will offer many new searching capabilities.

From the Stark County District library press release:

Kent Oliver, executive director of the Stark County District Library said, "The move to this new catalog system is a very big deal for the library consortium, but we will make the move as seamless as possible for our patrons, including no change in their library card numbers, though they will have to update their PIN numbers. We have purchased the Millennium catalog system and Encore search and discovery platform from Innovative Interfaces, Inc., one of the leading library management software vendors. This new system will make it easier and better for all library patrons to access the information they count on their library to provide."

When the new catalog system becomes available to the public February 26, a better, stronger, faster, more easily searched catalog will be available at the click of a mouse. Some of the features patrons will discover include:

• Search results for all resources, including books, databases, and the World Wide Web with one search
• "Tag Clouds" to help refine your search
• "Did you mean.?" spell-check boxes
• Relevance-ranking to place the best search results at the top of your list
• Search results that tell you what is on the shelf at your library location at the moment you are searching

During the transition, the library catalog will be unavailable, both in-house and from the website. Downtimes will occur from Sunday February 23 at 5:00 p.m. until Tuesday February 26 at 8:00 a.m.. Louisville Public Library will be closed February 26 for staff training.

Patrons will not be able to place reserves on materials after Saturday February 23.

The libraries in the consortium will remain open on Monday February 25 for return and checkout only. There will be no catalog searching capabilities on Monday. PATRONS MUST BRING THEIR LIBRARY CARDS TO CHECK OUT MATERIALS!

We hope that our patrons will enjoy the new features that Millennium has to offer, and we look forward to showing you how it works!