Vega Connect establishes a foundation that brings together the library’s enterprise system with modern patron engagement. It helps staff manage end-to-end experiences, providing a state-of-the-art context engine for linked data searches and exploration, a messaging engine, and an extended view of all patron activities.
A Library Experience that Matters
For wherever and however patrons connect with your library, Innovative helps you deliver an intuitive and exciting library experience to patrons, staff, and donors, whether in the library or online.
Based on Our Shared Values
We embrace our differences and look for opportunities to develop solutions that increase access, promote equity and support inclusion, putting community first and helping every library reach its greatest potential.
Boost Productivity
Innovative provides solutions that streamline workflows, reduce tedious tasks, and unlock efficiencies so staff can reinvest time in library programs and community engagement.
Excite Your Community
We help libraries meaningfully and consistently connect with patrons to create involved community advocates and build more modern, impactful experiences.
Invest Responsibly
Through our collaborative development process, we offer a full ecosystem of smart, scalable, and adaptive library solutions to maximize your operating budget and drive better outcomes.
INNOVATIVE LIBRARIES
The Innovative Approach to Library Experience
Helping libraries connect and communicate with all users
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Discover
Finding and exploring, checking out and reading are all simple, intuitive experiences with Vega Discover. By combining an accessible display with modern data standards, it provides a more user-friendly, intelligent presentation of library data, rolling all formats into a single title display and providing related resources. Learn more
Interact
Vega Interact ensures two-way conversation is at the heart of every patron relationship. It sends appealing and personalized notifications through preferred communications channels, answers questions via chatbot or live chat, and even integrates with digital assistants such as Alexa.
Promote
Vega Promote keeps patrons and community members well informed through targeted and relevant communications. Designed specifically for library marketing needs, you can easily run campaigns, build landing pages, design websites, and fundraise. Learn more
Program
Easily manage library events through registration forms, landing web pages, RSVP programs, and targeted contact lists. And make your programs more discoverable throughout the library experience by integrating them on websites, in emails, through showcases, and relating them to materials in the collection. Learn more
Analyze
Measure the library’s impact and outcomes, not just actions, through unified reporting across Vega LX and the ILS. With Analyze, you can quantify the value of the library through data and guided analysis, demonstrating ROI and expanding your services in a way that meets community needs.
Library Experience Suite
Deliver an engaging end-to-end library experience easily and at scale with this ultramodern suite.
Vega
Library Systems
Seamlessly bring multiple library functions together with an efficient, user-friendly system designed to fit your staff and user needs.
Sierra
Polaris
Mobile Apps
Provide on-the-go access to collections and services direct from iOS or Android devices.
Innovative Mobile
Mobile Worklists
Resource Sharing
Increase the materials you offer for an all-around better discovery experience that reduces expense while increasing patron satisfaction.
INN-Reach
Metadata Management
Equip your catalogers with a database of 70+ million MARC records and Library of Congress authority records — all updated daily.
SkyRiver
Hear what our customers have to say
From people who trusted and invested with us
We really want our customers to feel that their public library offers them something intuitive and easy to use. That’s why we went with Polaris and Innovative.
Mary George
Director of Library Services, Placer County Library
80% of customers choose an Innovative product so they can continue a long-term relationship with us.
Here's what they have to say.
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When you have a system that’s easy to use and has an easy interface that staff are able to utilize to serve our patrons, it makes the customer service that much better…
Michelle Krooswyk
Director, New Lenox Public Library District
We found that the Sierra system offered a lot of flexibility with the library catalog so that we could do all the redesigning that we dreamed about doing.
Elliot Polak
Assistant Dean, Wayne State University
I’m thrilled to have Innovative as a partner. We have a really good relationship with Innovative. I’m really thrilled to see where they are going in the future and I hope to continue to use Polaris.
Karen Knox
Director, Orion Township Public Library
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