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Minimum Essential Characteristics The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) software shall:

1. Provide Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), cataloging, acquisitions, serials, and circulation modules.

2. Have a reports function that can provide statistical analysis of all module functions.

3. Have parent/child functionality allowing common enterprise holdings to be pushed to the local library accounts.

4. OPAC shall be customizable for each local library.

5. Already have all necessary approvals to avoid a protracted procurement process.

6. OPAC shall allow customers to identify print, electronic, and resources in other media held by the libraries.

7. OPAC shall allow for the indexing of all fields and their content in order to provide comprehensive search capabilities.

8. Have circulation module for check-in/check-out, renewals, holds, interlibrary loans, and generation of overdue notices.

9. Module shall offer local flexibility in establishing loan periods, patron types, and patron blocks, and other circulation parameters for checked out materials.

10. Have serials module allowing library staff to predict when a journal issue will arrive and check in new journals as they arrive.

11. Cataloging module enabling the upload or importation of MARC records.

12. Report function shall provide statistical analysis of all module functions.

13. Be hosted locally.

14. Provide onsite training.

15. Offer telephone support during regular business hours, 9:00-5:00 EST.

16. The period of performance (POP) shall be twelve (12) months from the date of award with 4 option periods.