Innovative Signs NYPL/Art Libs

Innovative Interfaces is in a New York state of mind: the vendor March 19 announced that it had signed a contract with the New York Public Library (NYPL) for a suite of Millennium products. The vendor additionally inked similar deals with the Frick Art Reference Library and libraries of the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

NYPL also will install Encore, Innovative's discovery service platform. “This is the first time that the library's two catalogs will be unified and accessible to the public as one,” said David Ferriero, NYPL's Mellon director.

The art museums libraries, which are founding members of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), will offer access to their joint collections through a shared catalog, for a combined total of more than 725,000 records of books, periodicals, auction and exhibition catalogs, artist files, photographic collections, and archival materials. Innovative said that the Frick will host and administer the NYARC shared system.

Along with its New York deals, Innovative also has signed the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for Millennium. Located in Santiago, Chile, ECLAC is one of five regional commissions of the United Nations.

The vendor said that ECLAC “provides specialized information services on the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean, in accordance with the program of work of the Commission. It has regional offices in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Montevideo, Port-of-Spain, and Washington, D.C.”

ECLAC joins University of the Andes as a partner of Innovative Interfaces in Chile.