Heritage for College Libraries
Heritage is ideal for use in College libraries, which is why well over 50% of FE Colleges currently use it!
- Suitable for large multi-site institutions.
- Annual support and upgrade costs which are substantially less than for equivalent systems.
- FREE remote installation of Heritage (or can be installed by local staff in less than 15 minutes).
- Upgrades can be trialled by creating a copy of your copy of Heritage to a stand-alone to upgrade first.
- A copy of your catalogue can be created in order to provide a training environment or practice global changes/deletions etc.
- Heritage Connect – provides a live link to your MIS so student records are always up-to-date.
- Quickcat Online – download catalogue records from the British National Bibliography or Library of Congress directly into the Heritage catalogue record.
- Heritage Online – Online version of OPAC and circulation facilities which can integrate with VLE products such as Sharepoint, Blackboard and Moodle.
- FREE book covers facility, providing book cover images for your catalogue automatically.
- Inter-operability with existing systems via SIP2, ODBC, LDAP, Z39.50 etc.
- Event Scheduler – Schedule processes such as the creation of reports, sending of overdue notices etc so they are generated automatically.
- Circulation Facilities – Heritage offers the most sophisticated circulation facilities around, including short loans, timed loans, postal loans and inter-site transfers.
- Attention to Detail – provides helpful facilities such as URL checker, spellchecker and Dates facility (where reports can be produced outlining administration duties e.g. “all items expiring this week” etc).
- We have a proven history of supplying and supporting Heritage, particularly for college libraries (over 50% of FE Colleges use Heritage).
- The longevity of both the company and the product, and the excellent customer retention figures we enjoy, are evidence of our good reputation.
- Heritage is specifically designed to provide a clear, uncluttered and user-friendly layout, which we believe is incredibly important to those who use it on a day-to-day basis. We believe that design is often overlooked by our competitors, setting Heritage apart.
- We are committed to development for the future, and the provision of free upgrades to our customers as part of our standard support service.
- We are working on a fully web-based version of Heritage which will be offered as a free upgrade to customers running Heritage Online with a valid support contract – we are not aware of any other supplier that has done this.
- We offer a portfolio of remote support services, which we can provide securely.
- We provide each customer with a Support Guide, a named support contact who will contact you proactively to ensure you are happy with Heritage and our services.
- We believe that our excellent reputation is proof of our commitment to both our product and our customers, as this can only be attained after many years of a consistently high quality product and service.
“Having worked as an HE systems manager I am incredibly impressed by the reliability of Heritage and its easy-to-use interface”.
Emily Armstrong, Hull College of FE
"We feel we are getting as much out of our LMS as we could wish for. The greatest advantage of Heritage, however, is the responsiveness of the support team and engineers".
Gerhard Bissels, Eastman Library & Information Centre
This page only outlines a few of benefits Heritage can bring to your library. Why not look closer at the rest of our website? We also recommend you look at our Colleges case study. If you have any questions, or would like a full information pack (including price and site lists) or a free on-site demonstration please contact sales@isoxford.com or complete our online form.