Encore, Encore

In June at ALA, I was told to expect the first public display of Innovative Interface's new product Encore in July. Watch for the press releases, I was told. Months went by. No word. Now, today, I got a note from my excellent colleague Mike Hughes at the Quinnipiac Law School library that the wait it over. Not only is the wait over, but the public display has been provided by our neighbors at Yale Law School. Quinnipiac has purchased Encore, and I expect that we may be in business with it by New Year's. See for yourself - just go to Morris at
http://morris.law.yale.edu/ , and choose the option to search Morris Encore. It's all there - the tag clouds, the drilling down by format or date. The tag clouds aren't just random keywords, but the most recurring words in the LC Subject headings in the browse screen titles.


I had to try a feature that Innovative Interfaces President Jerry Kline was bragging about last May at the users group meeting. The spell check program cannot be fooled. Sure enough, when I typed in "Gan wit de win" it asked me if I really wanted "Gone with the wind?" I'm a believer. Even so, I tried a few more deliberate typos and got a 100% success rate.