About 40 people thoroughly enjoyed the User Group meeting at the RACV Club Library on October 13. This library was set up from scratch when the Club moved into their new premises in 2004. Lisa Sukkel, who has been the librarian from the start, hosted us and gave us a good history of how it came to be what it is, and the unique challenges they face, as a library in a hospitality environment.
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50 thought-provoking quotes about libraries and librarians
Libraries are essential in a process of giving access to knowledge. In digital times they are needed more than ever before. Most importantly, however, libraries are the places where you can expect smart and clear answers to even most difficult questions. As Neil Gaiman says: “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”
Check out this thought-provoking selection of quotes devoted to libraries and librarians.
Presto 4.31 Released
Service Pack 1 for Presto 4.3 released by Inmagic
This Service Pack supplies useful new features, such as the ability to include various widgets widely available on the Web (weather, time zone, etc.) in a Presto Home page, improved functionality in searching, editing value lists, viewing RSS feeds, and more.
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Inmagic Melbourne User Group Meeting – Monday 13 October 2014
The next Melbourne User Group meeting will be held at the RACV City Club Library. Having just celebrated its tenth anniversary, the Library is one of several club libraries in the heart of Melbourne but is unique in its size, range of services and number of users.
The Library has used Inmagic TextWorks products since its inception, with the suite of databases evolving alongside the library over the past decade, to incorporate new services such as loans, extended research classes and extensive reporting.
Presto 4.3 released : Enhanced search and mobile features plus more
Inmagic Road Map for 2014
The Inmagic webinar held 18 December announced enhancements for DB/TextWorks and Web Publisher Pro (in version 4.5) and Presto version (4.3) for release early in 2014.
Inmagic wrap-up of releases in 2013
A wrap-up of Inmagic software releases in 2013 Text Works v14 Web Publisher Pro v14 Presto and Presto for DB/Text v4.2 Genie v3.6 Genie 3.6 was released in October with some very useful new features:
IMUG meeting at Whitehorse Art Space
On 4 December 26 people met at the Whitehorse Art Space in Box Hill Town Hall to attend the final IMUG (Inmagic Museum user Group) meeting for the year. Those present came from diverse organisations including galleries, school archives, museums, historical societies and specialist research libraries illustrating the range of smaller organisations using DB/TextWorks. Three people travelled from Daylesford to attend the meeting.
Presto for DB/Text Cloud Service
Inmagic recently held a webinar to reveal details of their new Presto for DB/Text Cloud Service. Presto for DB/Text Cloud Service is a simple, cost-effective way to publish data housed in DB/TextWorks to the Internet without the need for special software, IT support, and additional infrastructure investments. The service is hosted and maintained by Lucidea and is available to any of our DB/TextWorks clients on-demand, for a single, low-cost subscription fee.
Inmagic software Roadmap webinar now available
Inmagic has been busy with a range of new software releases recently released or scheduled in the next few weeks. For an opportunity to learn more about the new or upcoming releases of Inmagic products, Inmagic recently hosted an interactive webinar.
The session covered DB/Text V14.0, Genie V3.6, Presto v4.1, and Presto for DB/Text. The archived webinar is now available at http://www.inmagic.com/announcements-a-events