Deploying Virtual Libraries

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Deploying Virtual Libraries

• ZIG Breakout Session
• July 12, 2000

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Deploying Virtual Libraries

• Increasingly means mega libraries
• Users want/need broader access
• Infrastructure too costly to duplicate
• Local level service remains critical
• Local library knows the user
• Large investment in legacy systems
• Standards required that allow
• Creation of mega services and collections
• Support local services

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Standards repertoire today

• Z39.50
• Search and retrieval of multiple resources
• Cross database searching remains a challenge
• Even within a common domain like catalogs
• Little adoption by library-oriented IPs
• Result many libraries default to the browser as
  the integration tool

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Standards repertoire today

• ISO ILL 10160/61
• Taking off after a long taxi
• Useful for resource sharing
• Difficult to link with user self service
  applications

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Standards repertoire today

• NISO NCIP standard
• Still in development
• XML based
• Assumes query services available in Z39.50
• Linking self service applications to ILL a
  question

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Whats missing

• Directory services for agencies
• What else?
• Where do they belong?

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Coordination

• What level of coordination is desirable
• What is possible?