Special Library Suite

Special Library Suite
The complete solution for special libraries – digital asset management,
cloud solutions, open architecture and more.
Your special library is tasked with a unique set of responsibilities.
Because of the varied groups and individuals it serves, the special
library must be able to support the research and organizational needs
of users of varying specialties, needs and experience levels. The library
is the central resource, the all-answers research destination, and
the culmination of an institution’s knowledge repository. Its mission
critical role requires the very best in technology to support it. The
SirsiDynix Special Library Suite is the solution, offering a full toolkit of
library technology support – from digital asset management to cloud
solutions to a fully open and extensible system, ripe for customization to
meet your unique requirements.
Don’t settle for less!
You can have all the features your
federal, corporate, military or
other special library requires at an
economical package price point:
• Digital asset management
• Cloud support with SirsiDynix
SaaS
• Authentication
• Metrics and decision support
• SmartSource and authority
update services
• Extensibility and
customization through Web
Services and APIs
• A full suite of proven ILS
solutions
Eliminating silos with integrated digital asset management
Does your institution suffer from the “silo effect”? Stores of valuable information spread across
the landscape of departments and programs with no overarching means of organization or
access? The library has the opportunity to bring all digital resources – research, theses, archival
data, reserves, etc. – into one central system to increase the value of the institution’s intellectual
property along with the library’s own digital and traditional resources for the faculty and
students it serves.
SirsiDynix Portfolio digital asset management can streamline resources and house all
institutional assets. Portfolio enables you to:
• Easily add digital media
• Provide the serious researcher with powerful search tools
• Offer full-text indexing with facets geared toward the data sets included in Portfolio
• Secure document access, for copyrighted or department-specific materials
• Enable students access to a broader range of materials, all integrated into one easy-to-use
search interface
• Make the catalog more relevant for students with social networking and java-script
integration
• Easily combine and administer institutional reserves, segmenting appropriately.
Portfolio accepts all major media types – avi, .jpg, .mov, .pdf, and more – and provides an allin-one
tool for your institutional repositories. No need to maintain separate systems for digital
archival work and catalog access anymore. What’s more, busy users searching for materials on
the go will enjoy its mobile-friendly interface.
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Security, efficiency and simplicity with the hosted services cloud
SirsiDynix provides end-to-end managed care for special libraries through SaaS (or Software as
a Service), our comprehensive hosting service. SirsiDynix® SaaS gives your library everything
needed to provide your organizational community with the latest library services, but without
the added stress of managing complex technology and equipment on site. As a result, your
institution’s library gains all the advantages of the latest technology features and functionality,
but without the day-to-day duties involved in managing them.

Product Overview
SirsiDynix SaaS:
• Ensures your library is using the mostt recent version of your software, so your library gets the most advanced products while eliminating the
major responsibilities involved in keeping them operational
• Safeguards your application and data backups in a separate and secure location
• Provides your library with near-continuous up-time
• Saves you the time and effort of establishing a proven backup and restore solution that becomes critical in the event of a locally failed
hardware or natural disaster situation
• Simplifies your IT needs and budgeting by managing hardware and the hardware upgrade lifecycle.
With the support of a global team of engineers and hosted at specialized and highly secured facilities, SirsiDynix SaaS provides all the
specifications and benefits you’d expect of the industry’s leading hosted solution. More than 700 customers around the world take advantage of
SirsiDynix SaaS solutions.
Customization specific to your library with Web Services and APIs
SirsiDynix® Web Services, a subset of the SirsiDynix Symphony® Application Programming Interface (API), gives you access to system data and
applications for customization and extensibility specific to your institution’s aspirations, needs and user requests. You can take advantage of the
same tools used by SirsiDynix engineers to extend the system to meet your local requirements. Web Services support use of the REST or SOAP
protocols to develop efficient integration points between objects handled in Symphony and other systems used on campus or in the library. This
opens the door for expanded interoperability and unique tailoring, presentation and availability of your information, behind the scenes or in a
custom interface – you are only limited by your own imagination.
Accountability control ensures security appropriate for each user
To ensure the protection of confidential information, SirsiDynix provides an industry-leading Classified Accountability module. With Classified
Accountability technology, your library can select the accountability, or security, level for each item as well as for each user profile. Accountability
control restricts users’ search as appropriate and limits the circulation of specific items or content groups to only authorized individuals, assuring
that your data is easily accessed by those who need it and secured against those who do not.
Flexible authentication options
Integrate with your institution’s LDAP or active directory based authentication system to eliminate end user ID confusion. In addition to support
for these common authentication options, SirsiDynix Symphony also supports authentication based on EZproxy or the SIP2 or NCIP protocols.
From daily metrics to reporting, we’ve got you covered
SirsiDynix Symphony offers a suite of reporting and library intelligence tools to meet your every management need. Symphony provides over 600
standard reports that capture statistics, generate lists, manage orders and far more. Our enhanced library intelligence tools, Directors Station® and
Web Reporter, take you beyond the standard reports and support data warehousing, sophisticated decision support, simplified reporting and
presentation ready graphics, charts and other output.
Cost-effective cataloging and authority control
In addition to standard interfaces and update process for OCLC and other bibliographic utilities, SirsiDynix offers SmartSource®, a service geared
toward reducing your cataloging costs with full access to Library of Congress bibliographic and authority data along with access to any other
record source that supports Z39.50 record retrieval to which your library has access. Why not further simplify your technical service flow by
taking advantage of SirsiDynix authority control and update services? SirsiDynix will take care of keeping your database updated with the latest
authorized records so your hands stay off the keyboard and end users get the results they expect.
SirsiDynix supports MARC21, COSATI/CENDI, CANMARC, UKMARC, AUSMARC, CMARC, COMMINFO, USMARC, Dublin Core and
Unicode UTF8 record formats to assure all your cataloging requirements are accounted for.
Proven ILS solution
Thousands of libraries worldwide use SirsiDynix solutions to manage all aspects of their automated system – search and discovery, digital asset
management, cataloging, circulation, Web Services and more. SirsiDynix offers a comprehensive and proven solution that maximizes your
efficiency while minimizing your risk.
From library operations basics to very specific and specialized tools to help your institution excel, the SirsiDynix Special Library Suite provides the
full spectrum of established library technology standards.
For more information on the SirsiDynix Special Library Suite,
contact your SirsiDynix representative.
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