360 Link provides users with the best and easiest access to the information they seek. A superior user experience combines comprehensive collection coverage with proven Index-Enhanced Direct Linking (IEDL) and OpenURL linking technologies to reliably connect users to full-text articles, book chapters, and more in your library’s collection and beyond. Libraries can also leverage extensive interface customization and integration options to adapt 360 Link their specific needs.

American Sign Language (ASL)

Provides easy, flexible ways to manage, track, and pay copyright. Staff can look at copyright status at any point in the queue and choose to fulfill copyright through the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) or go direct to the publisher/ individual rights holder. Ares is the only reserve system integrated with the CCC’s Annual Copyright License.

Attend is a powerful event creation and management tool that allows for multiple levels of branch-specific mediation prior to publication. Registered events, series events and private events are easily created and managed via the Communico control panel.

BlueCareer, a new workforce development platform from EBSCOlearning, is the one-stop shop for members of your community to explore the skilled trades industry, start their careers, connect with employers and more.

BlueCareer provides in-depth information on more than 100 skilled trades, connects individuals with hundreds of trade schools across the United States and Canada, and provides training resources for those seeking to build their trade knowledge and experience.

Using BlueCareer, job seekers can explore 100+ trades in more than a dozen industries:

• Automotive
• Aviation
• Construction
• Energy
• Forestry
• Personal Care
• Home Care
• Hospitality
• Janitorial
• Landscaping
• Manufacturing
• Marine
• Security
• Transportation
• Utilities

Broadcast is a digital signage solution that allows you to turn any device into an interactive digital sign. With this powerful tool you can advertise events, customize messaging, display room schedules, recommend materials, and provide real-time updates.

BrowZine Mobile + Web is a popular service that provides a visual representation of a library’s existing scholarly e-journals, whether access comes directly from publishers or via additional platforms. Access to BrowZine is available from your iOS and Android Mobile devices (tablets & smartphones) or from a web browser. The result is an easy, familiar, and reliable way to browse, read, and follow e-journals across disciplines.

Recent developments include expanded data sources, ILL/Link Resolver Integration, automatic updating of holdings, durable linking, transformational URLs, and the ability to create a reading room of titles with automatic sync between mobile and web. Articles in Press and the ability to create and share reading lists are coming soon!
 

Book recommendations, tag-based discovery, and links to other book editions and translations mean more ways for your patrons to find books they’ll like.

Connect is Communico’s multi- platform customer app, custom built and designed collaboratively with you, letting customers take your library with them, wherever they go.
ect is Communico’s multi- platform customer app, custom built and designed collaboratively with you, letting customers take your library with them. With Connect, it's easy for customers to use the services privided by your lirbary wherever they go.

Create is a CMS, website, and widget builder. Build beautiful, responsive websites, landing pages, microsites, reference guides and kiosk sites without needing to know how to code. Utilize our widget builder to share content across the suite of Communico applications and/or third-party CMS tools.

SFX® is the most widely used OpenURL link resolver, with a customer base of over 2400 institutions in more than 50 countries. Released in 2001 as the first of its kind, SFX offers a wealth of features for end users and librarians, that go far beyond basic OpenURL link-resolver functionality:

• Menu-driven or direct context-sensitive linking to full text and other scholarly services
• A-Z e-journal list and CitationLinker query form
• The SFX KnowledgeBase, capturing e-resources available in the scholarly environment
• Collection management and analysis tools
• Usage statistics
• UStat, COUNTER report analysis tool, including support for the SUSHI transfer protocol

FinancialFit offers short, easy-to-understand personal finance lessons, videos and interactive tools that empower all members of your community — no matter their current financial situation — to make informed financial decisions and achieve their financial goals.

FinancialFit includes a curated collection of personal finance lessons to guide learners in making life’s biggest financial decisions. FinancialFit features a bright, modern design and easy-to-identify content categories. The content is personalized to each user’s interests and assumes no prior financial knowledge.

After creating an account, users will be able to view a personal portfolio of lessons in progress and completed. In addition, FinancialFit’s mobile-first user experience ensures that learners can quickly access personal finance content on-the-go.

Key Resources

• More than 160 easy-to-understand microlessons that can be completed in under five minutes each, with more being added each quarter
• Interactive lessons and videos
• Learning games
• Worksheets
• Checklists
• Glossary containing 700 financial terms

Sample Topics

• Assessing Financial Needs
• Building Credit
• Buying/Renting a Home
• Choosing a Credit Card
• Getting a Car
• Living with Roommates
• Managing Credit Cards
• Managing Debt
• Managing Family Finances
• Marriage and Partnership
• Monthly Budgeting
• Mortgages
• Paying for Higher Education
• Planning for Emergencies
• Planning for Major Purchases
• Setting up a Joint Household
• Setting up Bank Accounts
• Starting Work Life
• Understanding Taxes
• New topics added regularly!

Interact is a software-only solution, allowing you to specify and maintain the hardware that is right for your branches and budget. Interact's configuration allows for a wide variety of layouts and positions for buttons and so the optimum balance can be created for the clearest customer experience. 

Kanopy for public libraries offers a carefully curated collection of over 30,000 ADA-compliant videos—many with group viewing rights—offers something for everyone in your community. Due to state agreements, MCLS does not quote Kanopy for public libraries.

Michigan public libraries contact (dmcdonald@overdrive.com).
Indiana public libraries contact Paula Roman (proman@overdrive.com

NoveList courses are taught by experts with extensive professional experience. Whether your goal is to increase visitors, expand circulation, or provide top-notch book recommendations to readers, we have a professional development course to help you reach your goals, in a format that works for you. 

Staff Access Subscription

The most cost-effective option to train all staff. This format provides access for all staff members to more than 20 courses totaling 45 hours of learning. Staff can access courses that interest them based on their schedule. Staff also get immediate access to new courses as they are launched. This option is perfect for getting new staff up to speed quickly.

Live Group Workshops

This is the perfect choice for in-person or virtual staff development days, meetings, retreats, pre-conference sessions, and more. Learn with NoveList live group workshops are interactive, engaging, and wonderful for team building.

Individual Courses 

This option is for individual staff members or libraries looking to take a single course on a topic of interest. Courses can be completed based on staff schedules and availability. Group rates are available for the purchase of three or more seats.

Spaces is an add on to LibCal. LibCal 5/5/5 is required in order to purchace Spaces.

Libguides CMS with LibWizard product added.

LibKey Discovery is an API-based service that enriches commercial and open source discovery services (e.g. Primo, Summon, EDS) with powerful elements that increase researcher efficiency simplify access to content. These include one-click access to millions of subscribed and open-access articles, cover art from over 25,000 journals, and direct links from the article record to the complete journal issue.

LibraryThing for Libraries—distributed exclusively by Bowker—enriches your library's online catalog with the power and fun of Library 2.0. LTFL features build upon data from LibraryThing, the world's first and largest personal social-cataloging community. With LTFL in your catalog, your patrons can browse, search, and engage with your libraries' holdings in a new, powerful, and engaging way.

LibraryThing for Libraries products include:

• Catalog enhancements—over 40 million tags, similar titles
• Review enhancements—over 375,000 worldwide vetted patron reviews
• Shelf browse—see the books as they appear in your library
• Library Anywhere—mobile catalog for iPhone, Blackberry, and Android

Click here for a LibraryThing for Libraries flyer or visit the LibraryThing for Libraries website for more information.

Naxos MusicBox is available as an extensive site for teachers to use in the classroom. Many teachers in primary schools – whether music specialists or not – welcome resources to help them. In Naxos Musicbox they have lesson plans and imaginative, tailor‑made activities to support their teaching. Interactive and classroom activities have been written by qualified music teachers. There are activities for younger children (4‑6) based around songs, and for older children (6‑12), based around the sections presented on the homepage. Children are often encouraged to listen our for particular details in pieces of music, which allows them to connect more immediately with larger or more complicated classical works.

LIBRO Curbside Pick Up provides a simple, patron-facing user interface in a mobile application that allows users to search their local library for materials, reserve items and then select a time for curbside pick-up. The library receives notification of the order through an online portal that allows library staff to manage the transaction. LIBRO offers a scheduler version and a ILS integrated version. LIBRO is a product of ConverSight.ai, a conversational artificial intelligence and analytics platform.

myLIBRO Full includes everything in myLIBRO Access (ILS connection, scheduling services, full staff & admin portals including notification system) plus program calendar connection, Overdrive audiobook implementation, self-check, book & program recommendation technology & more as added.      

The Neurosurgical Atlas — known as the ultimate resource in cranial surgery — is available for libraries as a one-time perpetual access purchase option with a yearly continuing service fee. This work is the most comprehensive, interactive, and exclusive multi-media collection that unveils novel and efficient techniques for brain surgery. It has inspired a devoted global community of over 70,000 members and is used by neurosurgeons, residents, medical students, nurses, neuroscience researchers, radiologists, and other allied health professionals. Its nonprofit mission is to push the boundaries of surgical excellence, education, and research to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

The Neurosurgical Atlas — known as the ultimate resource in cranial surgery — is available for libraries as an annual subscription. This work is the most comprehensive, interactive, and exclusive multi-media collection that unveils novel and efficient techniques for brain surgery. It has inspired a devoted global community of over 70,000 members and is used by neurosurgeons, residents, medical students, nurses, neuroscience researchers, radiologists, and other allied health professionals. Its nonprofit mission is to push the boundaries of surgical excellence, education, and research to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

Yearly maintenance fee for annual subscribers and one time purchases to the The Neurosurgical Atlas. This work is the most comprehensive, interactive, and exclusive multi-media collection that unveils novel and efficient techniques for brain surgery. It has inspired a devoted global community of over 70,000 members and is used by neurosurgeons, residents, medical students, nurses, neuroscience researchers, radiologists, and other allied health professionals. Its nonprofit mission is to push the boundaries of surgical excellence, education, and research to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

Perpetua is a long-term digital preservation and archiving solution for your research data and special collections. Perpetua collects, preserves, safeguards and provides access to your data while meeting compliance and regulatory requirements.

RefWorks is a web-based reference management tool that allows you to manage your references when writing or collaborating with other researchers. You can use RefWorks to organize, store and share your references, and to instantly create citations and bibliographies.

RefShare provides RefWorks users with a quick and easy way to share their research information, further enhancing collaborative research. Users can share their RefWorks references with both members of their own institution and globally with any researcher having Internet access.

Reserve is a versatile, elegant and comprehensive solution for room booking and asset management. It integrates beautifully with the Communico Suite, allowing staff to reserve  rooms as they create events in Attend, patrons to book rooms directly from within Engage — our patron app — and for room bookings to be displayed dynamically on Broadcast,  our digital signage platform. Requests may be mediated or unmediated.

Provide reviews for every item in your catalog, including CDs and DVDs. Patron reviews, LibraryThing reviews, and widgets for sharing reviews help you harness the power of social networking.

Roam allows library staff the freedom to move around the branch. No longer constrained to sit behind an information desk, but able to help patrons with catalog inquiries, event  information and registration, room bookings, library account setup, and much more, all from a mobile device.

Schedule allows your customers to book and manage their service appointments, while staff use custom workflows to coordinate fulfillment. What services can you use for Schedule? The possibilities are endless. Our partners use this module to market and manage:

• Makerspace bookings
• Genealogy research
• Curbside pickup
• Tutoring sessions
• Passport services
• Exam proctoring
• Flu shot clinics
• Coin appraisals
• Tax appointments

Shelf Browse uses your call numbers and marries them with cover images to give your customers the feel of browsing a physical shelf.

Skilltype was created in 2018 to provide talent management software to libraries, library workers, and their consortia. The Skilltype platform aggregates resources and opportunities from training providers, describes them with a controlled vocabulary of library competencies, and creates personalized learning experiences for every employee. Data and insights from employees are presented to library administrators to make more informed decisions on whether to recruit people from outside, or train people up to closing skill gaps. Skilltype 600+ competency resources for the library and information science (LIS) profession. Minority owned, Skilltype is based on Lousiana.

Block of 2500 text messages for use in the TALK service

Block of 5000 text messages for use in the TALK service

TALK: Text and Learn for Kindergarten is a text messaging service that sends fun activities parents can do with their babies and preschoolers to make any time learning time. Developed by librarians and based on the Every Child Ready to Read program that encourages parents to read, write, sing, talk, and play with their little ones everyday, TALK activities are designed to get kids ready for school success. To learn more and request a quote, visit https://textandlearn.org.

Block of 1500 text messages for use in the TALK service. Subscribing members purchase text messages in increments of 1500 messages.

Third Iron Complete is a suite of services that simplifies workflow, accelerates discovery, and better connects users with content. It includes:

• BrowZine, the leading journal engagement platform that presents the library’s scholarly e-journal collection in a browsable, readable format. Titles are visually arranged by subject, enabling users to quickly find titles of interest. In one click, users may review issues and go immediately to full text. Users may follow titles of interest and be notified when new articles are published, along with saving articles for later reading. BrowZine is available for desktop and mobile devices.
• LibKey Discovery, an API-based service that enriches commercial and open source discovery services (e.g. Primo, Summon, EDS) with powerful elements that increase researcher efficiency simplify access to content. These include one-click access to millions of subscribed and open-access articles, cover art from over 25,000 journals, and direct links from the article record to the complete journal issue.
• LibKey Link for PubMed, providing one-click access to millions of subscribed and open source and subscribed articles right from PubMed results.
• LibKey Nomad, a browser extension that delivers simple, one-click access to subscribed and open access articles from Google Scholar, PubMed, and many journal publisher sites (coming summer 2019).
• LibKey.io, a website where users can input a DOI or PubMed ID and connect directly to full text provided by your library (coming winter 2019).

One-time set-up fee for new Third Iron customers.

Ubiquity platform for institutional repository for content upload and storage.

Repository setup fee covers the cost of establishing the account and preparing repository for content upload.

A tool that integrates all of a library's periodicals through a single service and lets library patrons connect to those holdings by following a few simple links. The new product was developed in partnership with Openly Informatics, Inc. (http://www.openly.com), a software company that has developed "link resolver" technology built on the NISO OpenURL Standard.

Ulrich's Resource Linker is a fully hosted solution, which means that libraries' staff members are not burdened with the setup, maintenance, and updating of a link server, nor are they tasked with keeping track of all the changes in the various collections they hold in their catalogs.

Ulrich's Serials Analysis System is a powerful tool for library professionals who need to identify, analyze, evaluate and create reports about their print and electronic serials holdings.  It provides serials librarians, acquisitions and subject specialists, collection managers, electronic resource managers, and other librarians, as well as serials publishing professionals, with detailed information on the print and electronic serials they have - and don't have -and provides publishers the opportunity to analyze details on any publisher's offerings.

Ulrich's Serials Analysis System includes site-wide access to Ulrichsweb.com for library patrons.

Ulrichsweb.com is the authoritative, online source for in-depth information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types from more than 90,000 publishers-academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters and more from around the world.  Ulrichsweb.com provides free links to journal tables of contents, article abstracts, journal full-text, and document delivery services. It can also be used with OpenURL link resolvers to link to and from full-text resources, while mutual-subscriber linking arrangements can provide access to other serials-based services.

Allows Universities and Colleges that subscribe to academic journals through Big Deals to better understand their usage and look for potential cost savings taking into account Open Access availability, backfile, ILL and a la carte subscriptions. The Unsub dashboard helps you reevaluate your deal's value, and understand your cancellation options.