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Assabet Interactive, LLC Products Make the Switch About Contact Easy-to-integrate, easy-to-use. Sophisticated add-ons for library websites. PRODUCTS Four modules for library websites that deliver on efficiency and ease-of-use, without any limits on the amount of your data we hold, number of users, or log-in location. Event Calendar with Registration Museum Pass Reservations Meeting and Study Room Booking Library of Things Designed with librarian input to take advantage of current technology Built from the ground up with code that speaks to the latest generation of browsers, mobile devices, and social media, these modules provide an easy, intuitive interface for both site visitors and the staff who manage the presence of your library online. There’s no need for any complicated template work to make our sophisticated looking and acting modules appear as integrated parts of your site. Easy to use, dependable—and affordable The system is straightforward, with clear and consistent directions for both the patrons who use the modules on the front end of your site and the staff who manage the details at the backend. Our data—and yours—are hosted on secure servers with redundancy and auto-scaling to meet peak demand. A single, intuitive administration area attends to as many of our modules as you’re using, with real advantages when more than one are leased together—like the event calendar and room reservation modules which talk with each other to eliminate location and time conflicts. Staff maintaining the site are able to log in from any browser with an internet connection. The modules are responsive—content is always displayed correctly according to viewport dimensions, rather than by specific device. Each listing is search engine-optimized and uses Structured Data to improve the display of search results. Search and filter functions allow users of both the front and back ends to quickly locate what they’re looking for. And, we’re competitively priced! Retain your site’s design—and your patrons at the same time Our modules are delivered within the context of your pages—not on another website—so you retain full navigation, the look of your site, and an address that contains your domain name. They work on any platform: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and more. Plus, we provide tools to manage fonts and colors, allowing you to more closely match our modules with those of your site. Visitors will no longer be confused about exactly where they are when they access functionality delivered by your add-ons. No toll stations that limit efficiency We’ve figured out an easy way to enhance your productivity and help you stay on top of your budget at the same time: NO LIMITS on where staff may access our administration section. NO LIMITS on the amount of data you can have on our system at any one time. NO LIMITS on how many staff members may access the modules. And NO LIMITS on the number of branches you can have associated with your library’s account. The only limit is on what you get charged—the same, no matter what! A powerful administration section Even if you’ve seen our modules on other library websites, you don‘t really know the half of it. What streamlines your workflow is the Dashboard, our administration section which provides a host of tools for managing the delivery and functioning of our modules. User accounts may be set up with different levels of access to assign ownership of specific areas while denying access to sections outside of their responsibility. Each of the modules is presented in the same consistent way, so getting up to speed on the system is quick. Reservations follow the same approach in each, though may be individually handled in different ways depending upon your needs—things like a waiting list option, auto and manual approval choices, an attendance list, and editable emails automatically send to registrants. Assets such as images and PDF files are easily uploaded to a common library,” which can be accessed from within any module. A What’s Happening at the Library area provides a list of everything in the system that is taking place at the library, presented within a time range that you determine, providing some important details, and delivering links to records. A Location Utilization page provides a visual view of room usage in weekly increments. Reports collect the information you need to evaluate use and support budget requests. Contact us for a demo now Calendar The Event Calendar with Registration Module A system designed for libraries to manage the posting of events on their website and social media and handle the complete registration process for those events that require it. The Assabet Interactive online Event Calendar with Registration module delivers professional-looking listings to your library website and social media postings, as well as intuitive methods to manage the complete registration process, including the status of registrants. The Dashboard, our administration area, provides tools that allow you to manage your account, create and modify event records, and control every aspect of the registration process, including registrant lists, waiting lists, attendance, and automatically triggered emails. You can easily set up series and duplicate old records from the past as the basis of new events. Reports, created from data collected by the system—and unlimited in amount—may be generated to measure use and support budget requests. Our method for delivering the module enables you to retain full navigation and the look of your site, with URLs that contain your domain name. That—and a method for CSS experts to customize colors and fonts to more closely resemble the design of your site—means that visitors don’t feel like they’ve been sent to another location. The display of your calendars, event listing pop-ups and registration forms is responsive—always properly rendered, no matter what device they’re using to visit your site. The calendar may be seen in both monthly and serial views, with filters and a search field for quickly locating events. In addition, there is an upcoming event feed that delivers a condensed presentation on the home and other pages. There are also ways of filtering the calendar for display on category-specific pages, like your children’s section page. Assabet Interactive’s Event Calendar module: Portions of the month-in-view and date-ordered listing views, and includes the search function and date navigation that appear in the module’s header. The Experience for Visitors No matter the display format, each calendar listing is connected through a single click to a pop-up box containing a featured image and details about the event. If registration is required, a form will appear just below the text in the same box; providing information in the requested fields, then submitting, will initiate the registration process. Automatically triggered emails inform the patron the status of the registration, including—but not limited to—approval, denial, pending, waiting list, and a reminder sent one, two, or three days before the event. The Staff’s Experience Event listings are easy to create and publish—as single events or as a series, with the possibility of assigning registration to each instance of the event or to the first. A host of options help you manage registration: capping the number of attendees, auto or manual approval, waiting lists, attendance check, custom fields, registration period definition, and the ability to create and send emails to individuals or groups connected to a particular event. Posting to popular social media platforms is a single click away. Time and location conflicts are automatically identified with any other events in the system. And a snapshot” of all events taking place in the library during a date range you define helps with the big picture. In addition, a visual representation of location use in the library helps you quickly evaluate room availability. It’s the details Like...