May 7, 2009

Denver Public Schools (CO) Goes Live with Encore

Emeryville, CA—Denver Public Schools (CO) has gone live with the Encore discovery services platform, with integrated federated-search results from the company's Research Pro product. Denver Public Schools is the first K-12 school to go live with Encore.

"We thought Encore was just perfect for a K-12 audience because of the single point of entrance and the 'zeroing in' capabilities of the facets and the Tag Cloud," says Systems Librarian Janne Cookman. "Kids shouldn't have to know about metadata or how the catalog is indexed and organized in order to search for and retrieve information effectively. Presenting students with several easy-to-grasp options for focusing a search, or for branching off in completely new directions, seemed like a natural fit."

DPS selected Research Pro at the same time as Encore, Cookman says, "because we felt our resources would be used more if they were displayed more prominently and could be searched more efficiently. Now students can more easily access the subscription resources that we have selected with their information needs in mind."

About Denver Public Schools

The mission of Denver Public Schools is to provide all students the opportunity to achieve the knowledge and skills necessary to become contributing citizens in our society. Denver Public Schools serves the residents of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, and has a student enrollment of over 75,000 and is comprised of 152 schools. Under the leadership of newly appointed Superintendent Tom Boasberg, Denver Public Schools is committed to making Denver a national leader in student achievement, high school graduation, college and career preparation, and college matriculation.

About Encore

The Encore discovery services platform (www.encoreforlibraries.com) transforms how users uncover the rich and varied resources the library has to offer by uniting content, community, and discovery. No matter which ILS a library uses—or its level of development resources or staff expertise—Encore provides a reliable solution that makes it easy to offer the latest information technologies. At its core is the Encore Framework developed using modern, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software design principles. The Framework supports a suite of robust applications and Web Service offerings that can be tailored to meet the needs of any library. What's more, Encore Services provides a dedicated "Pit Crew" that backs the product with single-day, in-library installation, hosted options (SaaS), and more. With Encore, it's all right here.