Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web

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 technorati

Goal • Develop a completely ILS agnostic web portal for students and faculty to perform research activities: Library Catalog Institutional Bibliography Article Databases (and other local library catalogs) Institutional Repository Digital Library Many other resources… • Create 1 single interface for all library resources to minimize interface learning curve!

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

Vu. Find An Open Source initiative from Villanova University

Vu. Find! • 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 status information • and it’s Open Source! 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 • Vu. Find 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 Vu. Find 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. 0 Web 1. 0 OFoto Britannica Online Personal Home Page Publishing Content Management Directories (Taxonomies) External Links → → → → O’Reilly – What is Web 2. 0 Flickr Wikipedia Blog Participation Wiki Tagging (Folksonomies) Syndication

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 Results More Like This resource suggestions Browse by call number, tags, language, subject, etc. • Author Biographies show what the library has

Web 2. 0 Features • Live Record Status and Location with on the fly AJAX technology • Save Resources and organize with tags • View book covers and reviews from Amazon • Bookmarkable records and queries with Persistant URLs • Live Updates with RSS Syndication

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