Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0

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Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets
Web 2.0
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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

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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!

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Monsters with many heads

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

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VuFind

• An Open Source initiative from Villanova
  University

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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 status information
• and its Open Source!

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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

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Web 2.0

• More than a buzzword
• Its a way to solve our problems

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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

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Web 2.0
OReilly What is Web 2.0
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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?

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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

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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

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Ugh! Enough Slides

• Demo
• www.vufind.org