Both librarians and patrons access the resources online, we are able to work from anywhere any time. This increases prodictivity

I serve a community which is scattered across the country. Cloud-based Surpass has been handy in providing services to these stakeholders. The patrons have access to the Library's OPAC and digital resources from anywhere, twenty-four-seven. Cataloguing with Surpass is as simple as abc. To add a new book to stock, we simply punch in the book's ISBN. Bibliographic information is automatically imported from relevant external database servers. Not only is the searching interface beautiful but also interesting and effective. The search results display an impression of the book along side the essential details describing intellectual content of the books. Also, latest books appear on top of the search results. We have relied on the power of Surpass to identify all the patrons. A record of each patron reveals the patron's photo, resources borrowed, holds and fines. All these information on one window makes the whole work of circulation much easier

Although patrons can renew physical books in the comfort of their homes, they still visit the library physically to return or borrow a physical resource. This defeats the concept of self service.

Being able to inventory quickly and easily is important for volunteers. Having an attractive and easy to use online catalog is also very important. Surpass allows this at an attractive price, unless you have over 10,000 items. Then you are stuck, unable to add more or export to another system.

The OPAC interface is attractive. I especially like the ability to add an image of a book cover so easily. Being able to email over dues is very nice.

I like least the capping at 10,000 items when it was unlimited before. This is a real hardship for small church libraries that spent so much time and effort at comprehensive cataloging and now are told they can not export their own records! The next tier allows export and a huge increase of capacity, but the price is too high for most small churches to pay. The donor report function was removed with this version, and has been promised to be returned, but I have been waiting at least a year already. Copycat allowed more varied choices when cataloging, although this new version is probably easier for a non-librarian to catalog. I have so many rare and uncommon items that I end up doing the complete cataloging myself.

Go elsewhere unless you have money to burn.

The program works well but everything costs.

It takes a ridiculous amount of time to enter new books. The program will do it for you for an extra cost. We paid the extra cost and after 6 months, it still doesn't work. Very disappointing and looking to change programs.

I think our Theatre Department is happy with Surpass.

I loved Naomi's customer service. She is very professional, responded in a timely manner and was very helpful.

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