I servizi messi a disposizione dalle Biblioteche con e per lutente

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I servizi messi a disposizione dalle Biblioteche
con e per lutente
Oltre il tradizionale OPAC
Ian Pattenden
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Bowker

• 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

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Catalogue 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!
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• Ian Pattenden
• Regional Sales Manager, Bowker
• http//www.librarything.com/forlibraries/

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What 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

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LibraryThing 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

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Transform 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

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Linking bib records together
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Tag cloud
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Reviews 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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How 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.)

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Want 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
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Search/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
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The 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

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Search (traditional)
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Search!!!

• Single search box
• Easy to use
• Familiar results list
• Relevancy ranked
• Help

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Discover

• Context
• Associations
• Spelling variations
• Translations
• Thesaurus terms
• Discovery trail

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Refine

• Breakdown of results allowing user to filter
• Format
• Location
• Author
• Language

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Improve 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

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Search without ICE 5 records returned
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Search with ICE TOCs 16 records returned
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MARC record contains no reference to search terms
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Searching the ICE TOCs made the connection
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Live 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/

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Harvesting 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/

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Integrate federated search
http//uws.aquabrowser.com/
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The 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

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The social OPAC
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The social OPAC
http//lens.lib.uchicago.edu/
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I servizi messi a disposizione dalle Biblioteche
con e per lutente
Oltre il tradizionale OPAC
Ian Pattenden