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SirsiDynix and ChiliFresh Partner for Flexible Community Review Features

PROVO, UT - SirsiDynix, the leader in successful library automation, is pleased to announce a partnership with ChiliFresh, offering libraries and patrons an easy way to create and read reader reviews, with complete customization abilities for libraries.  The partnership gives libraries seamless integration between SirsiDynix OPACs, SirsiDynix Enterprise and the review engine.

At present, library patrons from around the world view ChiliFresh review content from library catalogs in excess of 60 million times each month.  ChiliFresh currently has patrons reading and writing reviews through library OPACs in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The ChiliFresh Review Engine enhances the value of a library’s website by giving patrons a way to interact with the online catalog by reading and writing book reviews and providing ratings right in the catalog interface. 

SirsiDynix customer Colleen Medling at Salt Lake County Library implemented ChiliFresh to enhance her patrons’ OPAC experience.  She reports, “ChiliFresh was the perfect solution to allow our patrons to collaborate online with each other, the librarians, and the online catalog!  It was a snap to implement and takes very little staff time to moderate reviews.”

With SirsiDynix OPACs and ChiliFresh, libraries enjoy immense flexibility:

• Customize the look and feel to match your local site and/or catalog

• Choose how reviews from patrons are presented

• Determine what reviews are displayed

• Moderate reviews

SirsiDynix CTO, Talin Bingham, said, “Partnering with ChiliFresh was the right way for SirsiDynix to help libraries successfully provide reviews and ratings easily and flexibly.  Not only do they provide the broadest range of available review content, but they work with every major SirsiDynix ILS and platform.  In fact, ChiliFresh is available for e-Library, iBistro, iLink, Ecole, HIP 3.x and the soon-to-be-released OPAC add-on, Enterprise 2.0.”

Scott Johnson, CEO of ChiliFresh, said, “We’re very happy to partner with SirsiDynix and to have successfully developed ChiliFresh, which empowers the library patron with a “voice”.  We’ve worked hard to ensure that the ChiliFresh Engine is affordable so libraries can offer patron reviews without a major impact to their budget.”

For a free 30-day trial, go to http://www.sirsidynix.com/Partners/profile_ChiliFresh_form.php.  For more information about ChiliFresh and other SirsiDynix partners, go to http://www.sirsidynix.com/Partners/strategic.php.