It’s simple, it’s fast and it’s mobile friendly.
Soutron’s Search Portal technology for libraries and archives is easily customizable, allowing for the organization and display of information in a manner that improves the end-user search experience and enhances the image of the library or archive.
Due to its built-in flexibility, Soutron’s Search Portal technology offers complete control over the way results are presented, including:
Soutron’s Search Portal technology for libraries or archives is template driven, incorporating HTML5 and CSS style sheets, making it easy to seamlessly integrate with websites. Webmasters can use their skills to custom design the interface or have Soutron Global provide the customization.
For many archives or libraries, a single Search Portal is ideal, but if multiple portals are needed, these can be simply created. To make it even easier, you can choose from Soutron’s pre-designed templates, each with a different theme that can be branded and applied within minutes.
Create a unique entry point/portal for your users, patrons, clients and visitors across your user community. Simplify their access to your content and services and provide My Account facilities to help them self-manage their searches, renew loans, set up RSS feeds, get the latest Library and Archive news and events, how to access your services and more.
End users and patrons can now create their very own ‘Collections / Reading Lists’ and quickly and easily add information resources they find for later viewing.
Below are our eight standard themes to help get you started. Click on each to be taken to an example screenshot of each portal.
We would swap the Soutron logo for that of your organization and can amend the colours, fonts and background images to those you supply to match that of your corporate branding.
It is easy to make changes to an existing theme using our template design editor. This allows changes to the portal pages, results page and full record display pages. You can control headers and footers, amend text, change layout etc. You can also create additional content pages for specific subject areas or departments and customize your navigation menu.
Alternatively, you can request Soutron Global to make changes to your specification at our standard hourly rate for customization work.
If you have specific ideas that you want to implement, you can create your own theme and portal design from scratch.
If you want to integrate the system with your website and your webmaster has already laid out styles via CSS and you want to apply them, you can do so using the integrated template designer with HTML5 tools.
If you need this type of approach but don’t have anyone to do it in-house you can request our services, and we will work with you to create the design that best meets your needs. This is a chargeable service that can be provided at our standard hourly rates for customization work.
Would your organization benefit from multiple portals or search pages?
We can create portals for specialist subjects, secure portals with restricted access to help support knowledge searches and customer inquiries, image repositories, and even portals for different offices.
This is a great opportunity for you and your organization to share your knowledge and to help promote the services you provide to users via your own branded portal.
There is a set-up charge for multiple portals, but once again, contact us for further information if this is of interest.
Take advantage of our search widget, which provides direct access to the library and archive catalogue from your organization’s website, intranet or even from SharePoint.
Improve the search experience and allow your users to gain access to materials with ease.
Request a demonstration today and ask us to walk you through examples of how others are taking advantage of this great functionality.
You can get some measure of the different approaches taken when deploying our Search Portal technology here with access to some of our great client portals that are live and on the web.
American Jewish Committee Archives (USA)
Salvation Army Archives (Canada)
Frostburg State University (USA)
The Wiener Holocaust Library(UK)
Chatham House – The Royal Institute of International Affairs (UK)
Met Office Archive and Library – A fully customized example
Compare our Library & Archive Solutions
The communications we receive and the support from the help desk is simply outstanding. We chose Soutron because they were the only supplier, who bid for our business that were genuinely willing to help develop an LMS solution that was really tailored to our specific needs. Compared to other LMS suppliers Soutron provided the perfect solution for a corporate library.
Andrea Cable
Library and Bookshop Manager, Oxford University Press
” it has made a big difference in how we manage our documents now that we are all connected and with a seamless flow from our site to the portal with end users not realising just how amazing it is”
Kat Hübschmann
Head of Collections, The Wiener Library
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