GIS Becomes Brodart Reseller

DartClix and DartClix 4 Kids marketed to Polaris customers

Brodart Co. and GIS Information Services have signed a deal under which GIS is now a reseller of Brodart's DartClix and DartClix 4 Kids web tools, which GIS will market to its Polaris customers. DartClix and DartClix 4 Kids are subscription services providing professionally selected and cataloged web sites in MARC format that can be viewed directly in a library's public access catalog (PAC).

The DartClix package comes with an initial file of over 17,000 web sites, with hundreds of new sites added every month. DartClix 4 Kids sports over 2900 web site records and is expanded monthly. Anita Wagner, GIS chief operating officer, said that the "latest release of Polaris, version 3.1, includes a development project to support the maintenance aspects of DartClix through the cataloging import process. This capability makes it even easier for Polaris libraries to enhance their PACs with DartClix."