Heritage News & Events
Heritage upgrades on the way!
We are delighted to announce that upgrades to both Heritage and Heritage Online will be released in the next few weeks. Further details of the functionality to be included in these upgrades will be available soon, but you can try out the beta version of the Heritage Online upgrade now. We’d love to know what you think – email us with your comments. Upgrades are included free as part of our support service.
Buy now, pay later
If you urgently need a new library management system, but don’t have the budget to make the change this year, then perhaps we can help.
Heritage is now available under a ‘buy now pay later’ arrangement. Two schemes are available, depending on the type of institution you are in, but there is no interest to pay on either scheme.
These schemes are not financed by leveraged credit – what got our economy into trouble in the first place – but from good, old fashioned saving. We are a prudent company, we don’t pay large dividends to external shareholders, we reinvest in the company to ensure the product stays relevant. We provide a high quality support service and we always retain a large reserve for a rainy day. This is why we have managed to stay at the forefront of library management software design for over twenty years, when so many other companies have come and gone. We are confident too that we will also be around for the next twenty years. So you can rest assured that a commitment to Heritage is a safe one.
If you’d like ballpark figures for a move to Heritage, or even just an information pack (with price and site lists) to keep on file, then please email our Sales Manager, Emma Duffield.
Exhibitions and Open Days
IS Oxford staff attend a number of library exhibitions each year. Our sales and support services staff are present to demonstrate the Heritage software and answer any questions you may have about Heritage or IS Oxford.
We also hold Open Days throughout the year at our offices in Oxford, which are very popular with existing and prospective customers alike. The day includes a presentation of the latest features of Heritage (as well as a preview of future developments), a Q&A session with training and development staff, a sandwich lunch in the Chapel with an opportunity to meet Heritage Support Guides and users followed in the afternoon by a trip into Oxford (to date we have taken everyone on open top bus and walking tours). Places are free of charge but limited to two per institituion. Contact sales@isoxford.com for further details.
Forthcoming Events
CILIP Showcase - Friday 12th March 2010, CILIP HQ, Ridgmount Street, London
IS Oxford Open Day - Thursday 25th March 2010, The Chapel, Oxford
JISC RSC NW Annual Event 2010 - 22nd June 2010, Reebok Stadium, Bolton
CILIP Showcase - Wednesday 22nd September 2010, Britannia Hotel, Manchester
CILIP Showcase - Friday 5th November, CILIP HQ, Ridgmount Street, London
Charitable Giving
We are fortunate. We have enjoyed access to good education, health care and the opportunity to earn a fair income from our efforts. We have good customers who believe in us and invest in our company by buying Heritage. Therefore we consider it is right to give a proportion of our income to good and worthy causes. We want to share these with you, not so that we look great particularly, but rather so that you might consider adding your support too.
We support several local community projects with a fund we put aside from our income each year. In addition, every year at Christmas we give each of our staff £200 to donate as they wish on www.goodgifts.org . Last year quite a varied selection was made with the emphasis on children and the environment. Again this year we have supplied another village library in India.
The three most popular choices this year were providing 18 children with a year's schooling in Africa, supporting 14 Afghan girls and re-uniting 12 children with a family member or if orphans cared for in a hostel. Other popular choices were 8 treatments of medicine to save a life and transforming the life of 6 Indian children. Keeping the theme of children we also supported bikes for midwives, maternity kits, baby parcels and the gift of sight to 15 children. We have supplied clean water for 2 Bangladeshi families and clean water for 3 schools.
Closer to home we have also supplied 40m of English hedgerow, helped regenerate 2 meadows of flowers and helped clear 2 Bluebell woods allowing dormant bluebells to flourish.