Category: Sierra ILS

There is a new online option for Load Profile Training available for Sierra and Millennium users

With greater support for authentication options and loan rules, Sierra 6.1 prioritizes user security

The latest iteration of the Sierra staff mobile app supports scanning RFID tags

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A milestone achievement for the new tool that modernize how libraries communicate with patrons

LX Starter provides an extension of the ILS to generate modern, personalized, and designed email notices and communications.

The new Sierra version includes support for SAML login, OAI-PMH harvesting, and screen readers

Libraries from the first waves of implementation have begun using LX Starter for patron notices

On December 14, 2022, Innovative experts hosted an informative webinar detailing LX Starter’s features, roadmap, and library requirements.

Academic libraries took the lead in selecting new features that will be added to Sierra.

Innovative, part of Clarivate, announces that Sierra 5.5 is in general release, offering improvements to libraries using Sierra.

The Innovative Product team invites you to participate in our new Sierra Idea Lab challenge: Academically Speaking

We have winners for the Sierra – All Together Now! Idea Lab Challenge!

Mobile Worklists 4.4 includes a Home Screen Editor to configure access to app features.

Learn more about LX Starter—a modern approach to circulation and account-related email communications.

Innovative, part of Clarivate, is pleased to announce that the consortium comprised of Solano County Library, Benicia Public Library, and St. Helena Public Library in California has selected Polaris as … Continued

Electronic & Digital Content Management (EDCM) automates processes and gets eContent into the hands of patrons sooner.

This launch features central office support for shared eContent accounts, and allows members to create unique, branded URLs for their collections.

Select partners will begin using the new approach to handling automated email circulation notices.

This modern telephony service offers outbound and inbound messaging for patron notifications and library announcements.

Innovative, part of Clarivate, recently announced that all current Sierra and Polaris ILS customers will soon gain access to a modern approach to handling email circulation notices—at no additional cost—through … Continued

Library users can now find the Vega Discover features they enjoy and expect from their online library catalog, such as work-level roll ups, within the Innovative Mobile app.

We have our winner for the Sierra – All Systems Go! Idea Lab Challenge!

Decision Center Release 1.2 SP12 is now available to Innovative library partners.

Innovative is proud to announce that Mobile Worklists 4.2 is now available!

Innovative is happy to announce that Sierra 5.4 is in general release, offering several improvements to libraries using Sierra.

Pairwise voting has concluded for the Idea Lab Meta-Challenge, and we have our winners! The Meta-Challenge was designed to help focus future challenges on the areas of the product most important to Polaris and Sierra libraries.

Innovative is happy to announce that Sierra 5.3 is in general release, offering many enhancements to libraries using Sierra. 

The Innovative Product Team invites you to participate in our Second Quarter 2021 Idea Lab challenge: It Bugs Me!

Innovative is happy to announce that Sierra 5.2 is in general release, offering numerous enhancements to Sierra libraries.

Sorbonne Interuniversity Library has chosen to migrate to the Sierra library services platform (LSP).

Innovative is happy to announce that Sierra 4.1 is in general release, offering a number of new features. Through their testing and feedback, our beta partner community played an important part in making this development and deployment possible.

Charleston Library Society has selected the Sierra Integrated Library System (ILS) for the next five years along with Vital as its digital repository.

This is the third in a series of tips that can help you successfully prepare your library mentally and physically for a migration from Millennium to Sierra. Think about the technical resources, data quality and training you’ll need.

This is the second in a series of tips that can help you successfully prepare your library mentally and physically for a migration from Millennium to Sierra. We discuss why you should proactively plan for on-premise server failure.

Whether your library expects to migrate to Sierra in the near term or remain on Millennium a bit longer, Innovative can help you develop a solid plan.

Innovative is happy to announce that Sierra 4.0 is now in general release, offering libraries powerful new features. We started beta in early March and want to thank our beta program partners for your testing and feedback.

Innovative recently launched Sierra Release 3.4 with a new Sierra Offline Circulation client and additional enhancements to give library partners more customization options as they manage their system and data.

The University of Essex has been an Innovative library partner since 1995, to help fulfill their founding vision of “a new kind of university… where students could live and learn… … Continued

The University of Warwick is globally recognised for the quality and impact of their research and commitment to student success.  The institution is consistently ranked as one of the top … Continued

Marmot Library Network, with 24 member libraries, hosts Innovative’s Sierra Library Services Platform (LSP) for its members, maintains a union catalog of 1.9 million titles, and provides related services for … Continued

Smart Selection The many adventures of Wild West Sheriff Walt Longmire, as created by author Craig Allen Johnson, are in particular demand at some of Tulsa City-County Library’s 24 branches. … Continued

Librarians at the Law Library at the University of California Hastings College of the Law (UC Hastings Law Library) faced a huge upcoming weeding and relocation project; they knew that … Continued