MEDIA FINDERS Mediated Access to the OPAC

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MEDIA FINDERSMediated Access to the OPAC

• Kelley McGrath
• Sue Weiland
• Ball State University

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What is a Media Finder?

• Web form allowing users to construct a guided
  search of a subset of materials in the librarys
  OPAC
• Applied to targeted sections of library materials

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Outline

• Why develop media finders?
• How they work and how to make one
• Two specific applications
• Popular music
• Fiction videos

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Why Develop Media Finders?

• Browsing
• Blank screen problem
• Targeted subsets
• Full use of information in cataloging record

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How Media Finders Work

• Web form (HTML)
• CGI script (Perl, ASP, or other programming
  language)
• Dynamic URL that searches OPAC
• http//liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/5?searchswing650
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For more information

• Kelley McGrath
• kmcgrath_at_bsu.edu
• Sue Weiland
• sweiland_at_bsu.edu
• http//www.bsu.edu/library/librarycatalogs/mediaf
  inders/