Next Generation Catalog
The library OPAC meets Web 2.0
Introduction
Survey after survey … study after study
We all know that we need to offer better web
based services to our users. We can offer them
what they expect from services that we compete
with:
Google
Amazon
del.icio.us
technorati
Goal
• Develop a completely ILS agnostic web
portal for students and faculty to perform
research activities:
Library Catalog
Institutional Bibliography
Article Databases
(and other local library catalogs)
Institutional Repository
Digital Library
Many other resources…
• Create 1 single interface for all library
resources to minimize interface learning
curve!
Monsters with many heads
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Home Page
Secondary Web Pages
Catalog
Article Search
Digital Library
… more
All with a different interface
VuFind
An Open Source initiative from
Villanova University
VuFind!
• The one stop shop for all library
resources
• Completely customizable interface
• Allows for easy integration into your
library website template
• Connects to your ILS for live status
information
• and it’s Open Source!
Digital Objects
• Most, if not all, of your resources are in
some digital form.
• The metadata and full text (if available)
can be stored and searched
• VuFind has set the goal to search all of
your content from 1 single repository
• Apache SOLR is an enterprise scale
search engine that can allow VuFind to
achieve this goal
Web 2.0
More than a buzzword
It’s a way to solve our problems
Web 2.0
“If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then
that is people to people. But that was what
the Web was supposed to be all along.”
- Tim Berners Lee
Web 2.0
Web 1.0
OFoto
Britannica Online
Personal Home Page
Publishing
Content Management
Directories
(Taxonomies)
External Links
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O’Reilly – What is Web 2.0
Web 2.0
Flickr
Wikipedia
Blog
Participation
Wiki
Tagging
(Folksonomies)
Syndication
Mashups
How many of you have found a book in the
catalog and then copied the info and pasted
it into Amazon to get more information such
as reviews and other suggested books?
Must Have Features
• Search with Faceted Results
• More Like This resource suggestions
• Browse by call number, tags, language,
subject, etc.
• Author Biographies show what the
library has
Web 2.0 Features
• Live Record Status and Location with on
the fly AJAX technology
• Save Resources and organize with tags
• View book covers and reviews from
Amazon
• Bookmarkable records and queries with
Persistant URLs
• Live Updates with RSS Syndication
Ugh! … Enough Slides
Demo:
www.vufind.org