Horizon Overview

Horizon is a comprehensive library automation system developed and supported by SirsiDynix (www.sirsidynix.com). As a client/server system, Horizon lets you use client software to log in to a Horizon server, which hosts a database of your library’s records.

Your library can use the Horizon software to do a wide variety of tasks. For example, your library can:

Maintain an online catalog of books, periodicals, and media items.
Keep track of the items borrowed from your library and the people who have borrowed them, as well as due dates and fines due.
Process information about the new items your library buys.

As a library staff user, you can log in to Horizon from any Microsoft Windows-based PC where your system administrator has installed the Horizon client software. Once you log in, you can do your regular library tasks using the Horizon processes that you have security rights to access, or using the records for which you have ownership rights.

This section explains these topics:

 


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