With more than two decades of experience, Civica continues to be a leading supplier of library automation solutions. With Spydus, Civica offers a total information management solution in a single product. In addition to managing bibliographic data, Spydus caters for multimedia collections, community information, historical archives and artefacts, and abstracts or full text management
Now in its third generation, Spydus is a functionally rich, web-centric application. As well as automating traditional library functions such as circulation, cataloguing, public access, acquisitions, and serials control, Spydus includes facilities for Inter-library loans, selection (requisitions), current awareness (SDI), stocktake, stock rotation, community information, newspaper indexes, homebound borrowers, Z39.50, materials and facilities bookings, archives, self-service and data loading.
The cornerstone of Spydus is its indexing and retrieval engine. Based on specialised indexing technology, the Spydus engine is optimised for delivering high performance data merge and join operations. This guarantees fast response times regardless of the size of the retrieved set of records and allows for massive Boolean operations across any or all indexed fields and unlimited refinement of the result set. The result is the most powerful, efficient and flexible search engine available in the market place.
“There are a lot of library systems out there, however Spydus stood out. Spydus is intuitive, it speaks the library language and it follows the library processes rather than imposing a new regime.”
Ron Pauley, Acting Manager, Cooloola Shire Library