January 11, 2008:  For Immediate Release

VTLS Announces New Product: Visualizer

Blacksburg, VA - VTLS is proud to announce the first release of the company's latest product, Visualizer. Version 1.0 of Visualizer is now in general release and available for all customers.

VTLS' Visualizer is a powerful, comprehensive Web-based tool used to expose the entire contents of your library catalog, institutional repository, or other target system, allowing patrons greater access to more materials. With VISUALIZER, patron searches are not simply limited probes of a collection, but total exposure. Visualizer gives patrons a one-stop destination for resource discovery of both local and distributed content. Through faceted searching, patrons are empowered to discover more than ever before, without the need for professional search expertise.

Visualizer software makes it possible to search all of your institution's in-house and remote electronic resources in one place. By storing only metadata about your collection, Visualizer is able to almost instantaneously search and provide results found in the contents of any collection of electronic data—such as an ILS like Virtua or a digital repository like VITAL—as well as external electronic data sources. Visualizer then provides a way for the user to access these full data sources with a single click.

VTLS is preparing a test database and already has Visualizer's documentation including the User's Guide, System Administration Guide and Interface Customization Guide available for customers on the VTLS Web site.

Please stop by booth 1704 at ALA Mid-Winter in Philadelphia for a demo of Visualizer.

About VTLS Inc.

VTLS Inc. www.vtls.com, a leading library automation company in business for over 30 years, provides visionary technology in library solutions to a diverse customer base of more than 900 libraries in over 32 countries. Virtua is our premier ILS solution, Visualizer is our facet-based data discovery tool, Fastrac is our RFID technology, and we also provide cutting edge software and services for Digital Libraries with Digital Imaging and VITAL, our Repository Services solution. VTLS is one of the few ISO 9001:2000 quality certified companies within the library industry.