Features

Unique Planner features and powerful client-side analytical tools include the following:

>Interactively create unique library service areas to focus on who is being served and how well services are being delivered.

>Utilize up to six service areas to perform scenario planning: current service areas (final and draft); future service areas (final and draft); and long-term service areas (final and draft).

>Get questions answered quickly from a built-in help desk with instructions for common tasks; a control index to understand tools, buttons, and features; descriptions of individual pages; documentation of data and methods; and answers to frequently asked questions.

>Monitor session usage with user tracking reports Prepare demographic segmentation analysis of each library service area in order to tailor services and programs.

>Calculate nine service indicators. View them by individual outlet to measure how well library services and programs are meeting unique neighborhood and community needs. View them system-wide to see how outlets stack up and to get a handle on access and equity issues.

>Plan for new library service areas, site new facilities, and determine the size of new facilities, the number of holdings, reader seats, meeting room seats, computers, and parking spaces needed.

>Customize planning guidelines in nine categories to reflect local community values.

>View density maps that depict density patterns for cardholders, borrowers, and items borrowed by branch and system-wide (and by age group if available from your ILS).

>Identify locations with low patron use and few cardholders to target development campaigns.

>Aggregate census data, current year population estimates, and population projections based upon your selected service areas.

>Communicate with library staff through interactive feedback tools placed on the map for viewing and comment.

>Update library data as frequently as you want.

>View side-by-side comparisons of Census 2000, current year population estimates, and customized future and long-term population projections to determine where population is growing and how the age ranges in local communities will change.

>Utilize powerful query tools to identify census blocks with unique population segments in order to undertake targeted marketing and to develop fitting collections.

>Customize individual access to zoom to a local library service area upon startup.

>Utilize enterprise management tools to manage users including assigning access privileges in three categories: Administrator, Planner, or User.

>Customize the Context Map display to add or delete layers to facilitate navigation.

>Print, save, export, and email maps and reports.

>Utilize standard web-based GIS tools such as identify features, zoom in and out, pan, go to previous and next extent, zoom to full extent, measure distance, turn labels on and off, and clear selection.