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AGent VERSO™: Features

Search: Flexible Choices Ensure Better Results

• The Search module allows your library’s catalog to be instantly accessible to patrons and staff using a standard Web browser. Simple, yet powerful search options guide users to the most relevant results.
• Supports federated searching of your local OPAC and unlimited electronic resources via tight integration with AGent Portal.
  • Patrons select available the resources they want to search.
• Includes standard templates for creating a Google-like splash page to match your library's unique "look and feel."
  • From this page, patrons can initiate a simple, Google-Like Keyword Search or Advanced Search to quickly find what they need, and can also link directly to their account.
• Includes a variety of search options, such as Keyword (by title, author, or subject), Advanced, Browse, New Title Lists and optional Reading Level and Icon Search.
  • Scope by material or collection type, and language.
  • View full record display in Card, Labeled, or MARC format.
  • Display jacket art, book reviews, summaries, table of contents, and other enhanced content to make your collections more visually appealing.
  • Kids Catalog Support – View children’s literature reviews, search by reading level and/or visual graphics for locating items in your catalog.
• Streamlined Patron Account Access – The "My Account" feature allows patrons to:
  • Set default searches and control the display of results in the OPAC.
  • Save search history.
  • View and renew currently loaned items.
  • Place or delete reserves.
  • View loan history, fines/fees balance, and availability status of items currently on reserve.
  • Update contact information.
  • Receive weekly emails for account status.

Circulation: Improve Patron Services

• The Circulation module allows staff to manage all circulation tasks and patron account activity from a single screen for faster service and improved workflow.
  • Check-in and check-out items, place and fill reserve requests, recover fines/fees and lost items, and transfer items in a quick and efficient manner.
  • Automatically distribute fines/fees and overdue item notices via email.
• Manage Reserves
  • Place multiple reserve requests at once for the same patron at the same time.
  • Notify patrons by email when items are available for pickup.
  • Place reserves by title or item.
  • Allow mediated or unmediated patron-initiated title level reserves.
  • Notify patrons by email if a reserve has been denied (mediated reserves only).
• Display circulation history "on demand" for any given date and time.

Cataloging: Time-Saving Solution

• The Cataloging module equips libraries with the latest tools to help save time and increase efficiency. Advanced features such as our AGCat Editor, Online Interactive Authority Control, and complete MARC import/export capabilities are standard in AGent VERSO.
• Batch import MARC records.
• Seamlessly add records from Z39.50 cataloging resources
• AGCat Advanced File Record Editor - Supports a full range of MARC record editing techniques for the creation of metadata.
  • Add, modify, or delete bibliographic records as well as locations information in one step, for improved workflow.
  • Use convenient workforms/standard templates for original cataloging.
  • Spell checking and MARC format validation tools.
• Online Interactive Authority Control - Automatically match and update bibliographic headings to authoritative forms from appropriate authority records for new and existing records.
  • Updated records are seamlessly applied to your AGent VERSO database.
  • Supports automatic generation of cross-references.
• Print spine and pocket labels to accommodate your daily workflow.
• Statistics
  • Analyze item or bibliographic record activity for a given day, month, or year to assist with collection development.

Reports: Circulation Activity at Your Fingertips

• The Reports module provides staff with an organized system to create, store, retrieve, and analyze detailed patron, item, and fines/fees reports on demand.
• Easy import into Microsoft Excel provides greater flexibility for result manipulation and analysis.
• Automatic Generation – Reports can be set to automatically run at scheduled times, whether just once or multiple times, during and outside of normal business hours.
  • Run reoccurring reports by day, week, month, and time.

 

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