[Eril-l] insight on updates to BrowZine Web?

[Melissa Belvadi]

I can support the report below. At the Charleston conference I asked the
rep and he said we'd see My Bookshelf on the web by the end of November.

Melissa Belvadi

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Peterson-Lugo, Billie <
Billie_Peterson at baylor.edu> wrote:

> When I asked our account representative a couple of weeks ago, she sent me
> the following response:
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> “My Bookshelf will be available at the end of the month before
> Thanksgiving.  However, the ability to sync between the mobile and web will
> require an APP UPDATE and Apple and Google have both been sluggish in their
> review cycles as of late, so even with our code being complete Apple/Google
> will likely not be able to release those updates until the first few weeks
> of December.
>
>
>
> The important thing is that the core functionality of creating an account,
> adding titles to My Bookshelf, and re-arranging them on the shelves will be
> available in November.
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> Meanwhile, Reading lists will be available in 2016 in the Spring.  We
> delayed reading lists as we have been gathering more feedback about how
> customers want that to work as well as to implement the much requested
> external searching and integrations into A-Z lists, something not part of
> even the original EV1 design but that was highly requested by customers
> early this Fall.”
>
>
>
> I’ll also add that even without this functionality, our September usage
> statistics indicated a 400% increase from August, with 86% of the usage
> coming from the web and 14% of the usage coming from iOS or Android
> devices.  --brp
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>
>
> Billie Peterson-Lugo
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> Director, RCMS, Electronic Library
>
> Baylor University
>
> One Bear Place #97148
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> Waco, TX 76798-7148
>
> Office: 254.710.2344
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> FAX: 254.710.3116
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> billie_peterson at baylor.edu
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> *From:* Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] *On Behalf Of *Steve
> Oberg
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 15, 2015 11:36 AM
> *To:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] insight on updates to BrowZine Web?
>
>
>
> Our library started a subscription to BrowZine last year and when BrowZine
> Web was announced, at an additional cost to the regular subscription, we
> signed up for it as part of our renewal for this year. There are two major
> new features of BrowZine Web that the extra money we paid up front is
> supposed to provide, My Bookshelf and Reading Lists. They were promised to
> be ready this Fall. They still aren’t available and Third Iron support has
> been uncharacteristically silent when asked about an update on the release
> timing of these new features.
>
>
>
> I happened to check the end user interface again yesterday and noticed
> that although My Bookshelf still says “Coming Fall 2015”, Reading Lists now
> says “Coming Q1 2016”.
>
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> Does any other BrowZine customer on this list have any further insight on
> the situation they’d be willing to share?
>
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> Steve Oberg <http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/O/Steve-Oberg>
>
> Assistant Professor of Library Science
>
> Electronic Resources and Serials
>
> Wheaton College (IL)
>
> +1 (630) 752-5852
>
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Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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