Clarion University in Pennsylvania made the latter change. Jane stated that Endeavor had not yet moved any library from a consortial arrangement to a stand-alone and that the typical arrangement for the additional library configuration was a larger library hosting a very small library such as a seminary. It creates a connection, searches across systems, including non-Z39.50 systems, dedups and consolidates the search results. Endeavor is working with Georgia currently on Universal Index and projects that this will be available towards the end of 99. This feature intends to save network traffic and makes it more efficient to search multiple catalogs.
Universal index has to reside on a central server.
This configuration allows savings on ongoing cost in system maintenance and still provides full service via an assigned Endeavor project manager to individual libraries . Additional benefit for this model is more direct connectivity. When asked what would be the best model for Kentucky, Jane stated that perhaps 4 servers located at UK, UofL, east, and west would be a good configuration. This page was last updated on October 13, 1998.