New England Library Consortium is first to go live with ChiliFresh!

January 20th, 2008

GMILCS, Inc, a non-profit consortium of twelve public and academic libraries in New Hampshire sharing an integrated system, sharing resources, sharing experience are the first libraries in the world to go live with the ChiliFresh Book Review Engine.  ChiliFresh is the only real web 2.0 platform that integrates directly into the Online Public Access Catalog. Patron can read and write reviews from right inside the OPAC for the first time.

Marilyn Borgendale, System Administrator for the 12 library (public and academic) has been working with the ChiliFresh development team for a number of months to ensure that the patron review component would work seamlessly with their Horizon OPAC (SirsiDynix) and that the patons could benefit from the new interface.

“I’m enthusiastic that ChiliFresh is creating a national (now international!) pool of reviews. Already, our readers are finding reviewers they respect and checking out their recommendations. Our catalog has become truly interactive. From the technical side, the software is easy to configure and integrates seamlessly with our catalog. The ChiliFresh folks are wonderful to work with and have been very open to implementing our suggestions.” Said Marilyn shortly after the review system was made available to her patrons.

While ChiliFresh was first develioped for the Horizon Information Portal, integrations have been developed for nearly every major ILS on the market today.

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