Possible New Frontends to the IShare Integrated Library System

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Possible New Front-ends to the I-Share Integrated
Library System

• Susan Singleton
• ICAT Forum
• November 13, 2007

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Front-end Search interfaces

• Work more like other software
• Google, Amazon
• Aimed at regular people
• Simple entry
• Fast drill-down
• Assume large topic being narrowed
• Lots of functionality available from each screen
• Rapidly changing environment

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Common features

• Faceted browsing
• Single search box
• Option for advanced search
• Relevancy ranking
• Sort customization
• Spell-check and stemming

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Features that vary

• Catalog records and/or more
• Tag clouds
• FRBR-like results
• Interoperability with federated search engines
• Accessibility
• Linked content

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CARLI challenges

• 72 databases products designed for 1 database
• Must retain functionality of UB and My Account

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What is open source?

• User-driven
• Innovation
• Flexibility
• Collaboration
• Cost

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Commercial software

• PROS
• Stability?
• Some guarantee of functionality and performance
• Big problems are companys problems
• Slow change
• CONS
• Cost
• No access to code to fix problems
• Company decides what enhancements will be
• Slow change

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Open Source Software

• PROS
• Control of functionality
• Easier to fix problems
• Cost
• Constant change
• CONS
• Must pay for developers or pay for support
• Constant change

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URLs for commercial products

• Primo
• http//prime2.oit.umn.edu1701/primo_library/libwe
  b/action/search.do?vidTWINCITIES
• http//alphasearch.library.vanderbilt.edu/
• Encore
• http//catalog.lib.msu.edu/screens/encore.html
• Aquabrowser
• http//boss.library.okstate.edu/

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URLs for open source products

• Evergreen
• http//gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/ind
  ex.xml
• Koha
• http//library.neu.edu.tr/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.p
  l
• eXtensible Catalog
• http//www.extensiblecatalog.info/
• VuFind

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• And now
• Implications for Catalogers