Title: I servizi messi a disposizione dalle Biblioteche con e per lutente
1I servizi messi a disposizione dalle Biblioteche
con e per lutente
Oltre il tradizionale OPAC
Ian Pattenden
2Bowker
- Privately owned, founded 1872, ISBN Agency - USA
- Part of Cambridge Information Group since 2001
- Offices in USA, UK, Australia, The Netherlands
- 225 employees
- Books in Print leading bibliographic source
- 2004 acquired Syndetic Solutions
- 2007 acquired Medialab creator of AquaBrowser
- 2009 partnered with LibraryThing
3Catalogue enrichment services
Professional enrichment for your catalogue book
cover images, TOCs, summaries
Its all about the users tags, ratings,
reviews, recommendations web 2.0 Bowker just
partnered with LibraryThing in January 2009!
4- Ian Pattenden
- Regional Sales Manager, Bowker
- http//www.librarything.com/forlibraries/
5What is it?
- Enriches your library's online catalogue with
the power and fun - of Library 2.0
- Gives your patrons exciting new content,
including - recommendations, tag clouds, and the ability
to write reviews - Allows your users to participate in the
catalogue without the - library losing control or worrying about MARC
records - Draws on the collective intelligence of your
users and - LibraryThing members
6LibraryThing background
- LibraryThing.com launched by Tim Spalding August
2005 - Online service to help people catalogue their
books easily started as an enthusiasts hobby
and has since exploded! - Personal users are free to sign-up at
www.librarything.com - 35 million books catalogued / 45 million tags
- 600,000 users / 250,000 reviews
7Transform your library catalogue with datafrom
LibraryThing
- Tags to accompany your subject headings.
- Recommendations Offer reader's advisory on the
spot. Show high-quality "recommended" or
"similar" books that can be found at your
library. Covers over 650,000 ISBNs. - Tag browsing Give your patrons the power and
flexibility of searching and browsing
your books by tags. Over 43 million vetted by
LibraryThing. - Other editions / translations Link
related editions and
translations of the same work (works like
FRBR). Covers over 275,000 ISBNs
8Linking bib records together
9Tag cloud
10Reviews Enhancement Package
- User reviews Access hundreds of thousands of
reviews and let your patrons add their
own. - User ratings Add our ratings and give patrons
the ability to rate books. - Widgets Patrons get a first-of-its-kind
library- branded "blog widget" and "At My
Library" Facebook application, allowing
them to show their friends what they're
reading at the library they love.
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12How does it work? Can I trial?
- Step one Get a price quote and set up an
account - Price is based on English language book title
count -
- Step two Paste the HTML
- Add a few lines of HTML to your catalogue
template - Export ISBN, title and author information in
tab-delimited format or raw MARC records, and
upload them on your LTFL account page. - Installation generally takes about 15 minutes -
10 if you have an IT department. - Step three Test and go!
- You can test out LibraryThing for Libraries
without your users noticing any changes. We
provide support for those without skills in CSS
(the way to customize how LTFL looks in your
catalogue). Turn it on. (Turn it off anytime
too.)
13Want to know more?
Price quotes, trials etc. contact me Ian
Pattenden ian.pattenden_at_bowker.co.uk
44 (0)1342 310460
Further information and FAQ online at
www.librarything.com/forlibraries
14Search/discovery platform
Market leading software already in use at 600
institutions worldwide
AquaBrowsers very own social library
experience allowing users to personalise and
take an active role in the catalogue
15The basics
- Independent search engine and discovery platform
- Local dedicated server
- Integrates with any ILS / data source
- Metadata (MARC, MARCXML, ONIX, OAI) is loaded
into AquaBrowser, indexed and stored in SQL
database - Index updated automatically every 24 hours
- Highly customisable
- Highly flexible
16Search (traditional)
17Search!!!
- Single search box
- Easy to use
- Familiar results list
- Relevancy ranked
- Help
18Discover
- Context
- Associations
- Spelling variations
- Translations
- Thesaurus terms
- Discovery trail
19Refine
- Breakdown of results allowing user to filter
- Format
- Location
- Author
- Language
20Improve relevancy
- Indexed Content Enrichment
- Upgrade Syndetic Solutions subscription to make
the enrichments searchable within AquaBrowser - Allows users to find previously hidden relevant
resources by letting them query summaries/TOCs in
their searches - An economical alternative to enriching MARC
records - Involves little initial work and no ongoing
maintenance automatic ISBN linking
21Search without ICE 5 records returned
22Search with ICE TOCs 16 records returned
23MARC record contains no reference to search terms
24Searching the ICE TOCs made the connection
25Live sites
- Authority file - University of Chicago Library
http//lens.lib.uchicago.edu/ - Integration with Millennium Aston University
http//aquamarine.aston.ac.uk/ABLaston/ - Integration with Aleph Free Library of Belgium
http//www.bibliotheek.be/ - Complete customer list http//www.aquabrowser.com
/customers/
26Harvesting websites/metadata
- Option to point AquaBrowser to websites specified
by library - AquaBrowser easily harvests metadata from OAI
servers such as CONTENTdm, DSpace, etc. - Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
http//sherloc.imcpl.org/
27Integrate federated search
http//uws.aquabrowser.com/
28The social OPAC
- Allows users to contribute their own knowledge
- Community contributed content enriches the
catalogue for the benefit of all users - Worldwide connectivity
- Tags (LibraryThing)
- Reviews
- Lists
- RSS
29The social OPAC
30The social OPAC
http//lens.lib.uchicago.edu/
31I servizi messi a disposizione dalle Biblioteche
con e per lutente
Oltre il tradizionale OPAC
Ian Pattenden