1. European EndUser2003 European Report – based on the Country Reports
Annu Jauhiainen
September 5, 2003

2. Countries: Libraries
England:7
Finland:51
France: 1
Scotland: 9
Sweden: 7
Switzerland: 2
Wales: 6

3. Voyager versions
(Finland)
(Finland, France, Wales)
(Finland, Sweden, Wales)
Unicode testing?

4. Modules and add-ons in use
all basic modules in use
self check-out, self check-in
call-slip
EDI
Multilingual WebVoyage
Bookbag and MyOpac
Bibliographic Record Linking
Universal Catalogue
Universal Borrowing

5. CLIO-ILL
not in use in any library
being evaluated by several sites
version 3 does not fulfil European requirements (for example in exchanging data with the British Library)
testing version 4

6. Too many patches to new releases
”European issues” 1
Quality control of new releases, especially regarding international features
regional settings of the workstation
currencies
character sets
Too many patches to new releases

7. ”European issues” 2
WebVoyage is not really multilingual
The implementation of PIN doesn’t comply with European legislation or requirements
Implementing FAST search engine to Voyager

8. ”European issues” 3 Circulation Hold/recall functionality
Pick-up location
High volume circulation
Not enough flexibility
Self service, especially self check-in: poor support of SIP 2.0

9. ”European issues” 4 Cataloguing Duplicate detection Bulk importing
Global change

10. ”European issues” 5 Universal Catalogue
Immature functionality, with no further development
Unknown to EISI Support

11. ”European issues” 5
Acquisition
currency

12. ENCompass, LinkFinder Plus
The Scottish Voyager Consortium: ERA, EDC, LFP, live in 2003
Wales: LFP
Linnea2 of Finland: EDC, LOI