Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0

Introduction

Survey after survey … study after studySurvey after survey … study after study

We all know that we need to offer better web based services to our users. We can offer them what they expect from services that we compete with:

GoogleAmazon

del.icio.ustechnorati

Goal• Develop a completely ILS agnostic web web

portalportal for students and faculty to perform research activities:

• Create 1 single interface1 single interface for all library resources to minimize interface learning curve!

Library Catalog Institutional Bibliography

Article Databases

(and other local library catalogs)

Institutional Repository

Digital Library Many other resources…

Monsters with many heads

• Home Page

• Secondary Web Pages

• Catalog

• Article Search

• Digital Library

• … more

• All with a different interfaceAll with a different interface

VuFind

An Open Source initiative from Villanova University

VuFind!

• The one stop shopone stop shop for all library resources

• Completely customizablecustomizable interface

• Allows for easy integrationeasy integration into your library website template

• Connects to your ILS for live statuslive status information

• and it’s Open SourceOpen Source!

Digital Objects

• Most, if not all, of your resources are in some digital form.

• The metadata and full text (if available) can be stored and searched

• VuFind has set the goal to search all of your content from 1 single repository

• Apache SOLR is an enterprise scale search engine that can allow VuFind to achieve this goal

Web 2.0

More than a buzzword

It’s a way to solve our problems

Web 2.0

“If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.”

- Tim Berners Lee

Web 2.0Web 1.0 → Web 2.0

OFoto → Flickr

Britannica Online → Wikipedia

Personal Home Page → Blog

Publishing → Participation

Content Management → Wiki

Directories (Taxonomies)

→ Tagging (Folksonomies)

External Links → SyndicationO’Reilly – What is Web 2.0

Mashups

How many of you have found a book in the catalog and then copied the info and pasted it into Amazon to get more information such as reviews and other suggested books?

Must Have Features

• Search with Faceted ResultsFaceted Results

• More Like ThisMore Like This resource suggestions

• BrowseBrowse by call number, tags, language, subject, etc.

• Author BiographiesAuthor Biographies show what the library has

Web 2.0 Features

• Live Record StatusLive Record Status and Location with on the fly AJAX technology

• Save ResourcesSave Resources and organize with tagstags

• View book coversbook covers and reviewsreviews from Amazon

• Bookmarkable records and queries with Persistant URLsPersistant URLs

• Live UpdatesLive Updates with RSS Syndication

Ugh! … Enough Slides

Demo:

www.vufind.org