Iguana loves relationships

Relationships matter. Through strong relationships with and between your users, you increase usage of your collections, services and programs. Building relationships involves many parts – from providing easy access to your collections, to communicating information to your users, understanding your users’ needs, and creating a vibrant user community.

With Iguana, you build relationships through a variety of integrated applications that reside within a single platform. You can build relationships as ‘the library’ but also give each branch or ‘area’ its own voice. Iguana’s profile-based platform gives you the flexibility to communicate information according to the specific needs of your organization.

Iguana offers libraries many ways to build relationships with and between your users. These ways include:

‘Featured items’ or media browser; a great, interactive and personalized way to inform your users of new items and interesting resources.
News; an easy way to you inform your users of the latest happenings in your library.
Events; an interactive tool to provide your users with an overview of all events in the library.
Personal profiles; a great way for your users to create personal profiles and share their interests in your services and collections.
Book clubs and groups; a collaborative application for your users to discuss any topic by creating a club or group around an item, topic or genre.
Search & discovery; enabling your users to easily find what they are looking for, and enjoy a complete picture of what your library has to offer.

The Iguana concepts

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Discovery

With Iguana, your users can discover information in the library and beyond. Your users can discover the library’s collections and more in an interactive and personalized way.

Personalization

Iguana provides users with a highly personalized environment. Iguana delivers information that is based on a user’s profile; the user views events for his or her library branch, for example, and reads news based on his or her interests.

Collaboration

With Iguana, your users can share your content with others. They can create affinity groups around your content; think of book clubs for example, or discussion groups around the library’s art exhibits. Your users can also connect with their friends to share items – books, DVD, CDs, etc.

Portability

The Iguana platform is entirely deconstructed; each content area on the page is a widget – users can move content on their library’s page and create their own views. Users can also move content elsewhere – to external environments such as Facebook or iGoogle, for example. Now your users can interact around your content on those pages that they visit the most.