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Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0

Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0. Introduction. Survey 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: Google Amazon del.icio.us

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Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0

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  1. Next Generation CatalogThe library OPAC meets Web 2.0

  2. Introduction Survey 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: Google Amazon del.icio.us technorati

  3. Goal • Develop a completely ILS agnostic web portal for students and faculty to perform research activities: • Create 1 single interface for all library resources to minimize interface learning curve!

  4. Monsters with many heads • Home Page • Secondary Web Pages • Catalog • Article Search • Digital Library • … more • All with a different interface

  5. VuFind An Open Source initiative from Villanova University

  6. VuFind! • The one stop shop for all library resources • Completely customizable interface • Allows for easy integration into your library website template • Connects to your ILS for live statusinformation • and it’s Open Source!

  7. 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

  8. Web 2.0 More than a buzzword It’s a way to solve our problems

  9. 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

  10. Web 2.0 O’Reilly – What is Web 2.0

  11. 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?

  12. Must Have Features • Search with Faceted Results • More Like This resource suggestions • Browse by call number, tags, language, subject, etc. • Author Biographies show what the library has

  13. Web 2.0 Features • Live Record Status and Location with on the fly AJAX technology • Save Resources and organize with tags • View book covers andreviews from Amazon • Bookmarkable records and queries with Persistant URLs • Live Updateswith RSS Syndication

  14. Ugh! … Enough Slides Demo: www.vufind.org

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