# Millennium ILS Reviews **Vendor:** Innovative, a ProQuest Company **Category:** [Library Management Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/library-management-systems) **Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About Millennium ILS Millennium integrated library system (ILS) is a global library technology company. ## Millennium ILS Reviews ### 1. Millennium ILS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** It works smoothly and is a stable system. Being an IT professional that supports our Library staff and faculty where Millennium is concerned, I have found that the interfaces are easy enough to be used by those that are not as technical as others. The ease of use is what I is its best asset. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** The SSL certificates have been the most difficult part of the system. With the move to most all related site being SSL (which is a good thing), the deployment of the certificates have been a bit of a challenge. It is more technical than some Library personnel want to get into. We had to purchase a wildcard certificate to be used. Even after properly submitting it, iii seemed to have difficulty themselves getting it installed in all the correct places. **Recommendations to others considering Millennium ILS:** Do some googling and read about them in various forums. Go to their webpage and look around and see it it fits your needs. Contact them and let them do a webinar with you and demo the product. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It give the Library a relatively easy user interface for all of their needs. It is more stable than some services we have seen. Page loads are quite fast. ### 2. Librarians Doing What They Do Best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kate G. | Case Manager , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** I really like how Millennium ILS makes it easy for librarians to accomplish what they need to accomplish by meeting the demands of the most busy comprehensive library operations. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** What I dislike is that there has been a lot of glitches in the system. Sometimes it takes a while for me to upload things to the library catalog for the librarians to use. **Recommendations to others considering Millennium ILS:** It is very easy to use and it makes cataloging much easier. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits are simple, it includes what libraries need to meet their most pressing technology challenges. What I also liked about this is that it provides access to more than 63 million electronic resources. ### 3. Used Millenium at old job - desperately miss it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Libraries | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** Millenium was intuitive and easy to use. It allowed us to run reports, get statistics and diagnostics and even for a user who, at the time, was unfamiliar with cataloging, still gave us the ability to search and sort through our materials with ease. Patron data was easy to organize as well. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** There was very little I disliked about millenium. The at-the-time interface was a little clunky and not aesthetic but I have yet to see an ILS that isn't. **Recommendations to others considering Millennium ILS:** I would definitely give Millennium a shot. It's great at what it does and certainly has been better than four other systems I've worked with. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to create a functional and useful large-scale inventory system, making sure that as users checked in and out and staff scanned books we could easily see what books were missing, checked out, misplaced, or lost. ### 4. Capable, Complete, Quick **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Libraries | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** As a recent, but past, user of Innovative's Millennium ILS, I find that it is what all other ILS offerings want to be. It has quick, easy to understand, and fast moving interfaces for all functions of the standard ILS user, in a super easy to read and utilize interface. We recently switched to a new ILS, and I much prefer the ease of use, features, and functionality of Millennium to the new product. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** My sole complaint concerning Innovative's Millennium Interface is the standard color scheme. The blue green of the interface does not contrast well with the white text box backgrounds and default text coloration, making for some headache-causing visual issues for some users in my library system. **Recommendations to others considering Millennium ILS:** I strongly urge libraries looking to modernize their ILS systems to consider the Millennium interface. It is capable, with a low error rate, and high accuracy in regards to circulation functionality compared to many of the newer, lower-cost options. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Innovative provides a fast and user-friendly interface for many library tasks, with modules that include circulation, cataloging, and acquisitions-related functionality. ### 5. Decent LMS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Libraries | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** For users that enjoy java based mouse dependent systems, this is a good fit. For an LMS, it does the job. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** I dislike the dependency on the mouse. For efficiency I prefer keyboard shortcuts to free up one of my hands **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides its primary function of managing the collection. ### 6. Millennium **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Libraries | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** Fairly straight forward user interface and design **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** It's mostly being discontinued in exchange for an inferior product **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't necessarily used anything besides Millennium, but it's a good program that is easy to figure out. ### 7. Outdated software **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** Multiple ways to record and organize patron and item information **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** Outdated interface. Freezes frequently. Hard to figure out how to bypass certain screens for increased efficiency. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can store limitless patron information consistency across branches. ### 8. Intuitive system **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** It's an intuitive ILS! Easy to learn and to teach others. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** Not too much room to customize and very little support. Wish there was more interconnectivity between the modules. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us organize our Library catalogue for access, billing, acquisitions. ### 9. Millennium 2.0 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** I liked the circulation side and acquisition function of millennium. I thought it was user-friendly and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** I disliked it for reference transactions. It was difficult looking for items relevant to a topic. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Millenium for inter-library loans. ### 10. III super easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Libraries | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Millennium ILS?** III is super easy to work with at my library. We use Sierra, which is the upgraded version of millennium. It's got so many features to help us serve our patrons to the best of our abilities. **What do you dislike about Millennium ILS?** There is nothing that I reallt dislike about it. **What problems is Millennium ILS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to check patrons in and our, renew marerials, create lists and so much more. ## Millennium ILS Discussions - [What is Millennium ILS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-millennium-ils-used-for) - [View Millennium ILS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/millennium-ils/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+22%3A40%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f082116b-fa70-48e3-a5b1-f9cb891ece7f&secure%5Btoken%5D=3d8919e4ab1b99a5373cf0b39f25b11c2e60bef3d08d543ac96889b2349cc661&format=llm_user) ## Top Millennium ILS Alternatives - [Follett Destiny Library Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/follett-software-follett-destiny-library-manager/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (430 reviews) - [Alma](https://www.g2.com/products/ex-libris-alma/reviews) - 3.3/5.0 (23 reviews) - [SirsiDynix Symphony](https://www.g2.com/products/sirsidynix-symphony/reviews) - 3.7/5.0 (16 reviews)