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== Monday, 7th September 2009 == | == Monday, 7th September 2009 == | ||
===IGeLU Update === | |||
338 members in 38 countries; stable prices for membership | |||
* new Primo Product Working Group (PWG) | |||
* surveys about expectations on next generation products planned | |||
* cross product activities | |||
* new enhancement platform (NERS) | |||
=== Ex Libris Report, Matti Shem Tov === | === Ex Libris Report, Matti Shem Tov === | ||
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=== The OPAC is dead - Long live the OPAC - workshop, Daniel Forsmann === | === The OPAC is dead - Long live the OPAC - workshop, Daniel Forsmann === | ||
The aim is to make yourself aware of what you want and what you need in order to judge which product fits best and to be able to make the right decision for a discovery tool. | |||
In advance the participants had to answer the following questions (The scale in questions 1 - 14 is 1 - 10 where 1 is the worst and 10 is best.): | |||
# How happy are you with your current OPAC? | |||
# How important is it to enrich the OPAC with external content (for instance forwarding searches, table of contents, covers, Google Books, integration with union catalogs, databases, Library Thing)? | |||
# How important are RSS feeds in the OPAC? | |||
# How important is it to be able to search the OPAC from other sources like Facebook, iGoogle, Netvibes ... ? | |||
# How important is tagging in the OPAC? | |||
# How important are user generated reviews and comments in the OPAC? | |||
# How important are librarian-generated reviews and comments in the OPAC? | |||
# How important are clustering of search results in the OPAC? | |||
# How important is it to be able to do federated searching in selected databases/digital archives/institutional repositories from the OPAC? | |||
# How important is it to to embed the OPAC into the library website (graphics and navigation)? | |||
# How important is it to integrate link resolvers (like SFX) into the OPAC? | |||
# How important is your access to the OPAC server and configuration? | |||
# How important is it to make the catalog data available for external indexing (OAI-PMH, permanent URL:s for Google indexing) | |||
# How important are OPAC API:s? | |||
# Mention five features in you current OPAC that you apreciate. Please motivate, but keep short. | |||
# Mention five features you miss in you current OPAC. Please motivate, but keep short. | |||
# List up to 10 OPAC that you find inspiring or worth mentioning. Please motivate, but keep short. | |||
# List up to 10 library websites that you find inspiring or worth mentioning. Please motivate, but keep short. | |||
The presentation summarizes the results: | |||
http://www.slideshare.net/halwete/the-opac-is-dead-long-live-the-opac | http://www.slideshare.net/halwete/the-opac-is-dead-long-live-the-opac | ||
Some explanatory notes of Daniel: | |||
* important to present your content in your local environment, e.g. library website | |||
* important to be able to present your content within an interface where the user wants it (using APIs) | |||
* making people aware of that we (the library) exist, by being present with e.g. search boxes in facebook, although it's perhaps not used | |||
== Tuesday, 8th September 2009 == | == Tuesday, 8th September 2009 == | ||
Revision as of 09:09, 15 September 2009
Monday, 7th September 2009[edit]
IGeLU Update[edit]
338 members in 38 countries; stable prices for membership
- new Primo Product Working Group (PWG)
- surveys about expectations on next generation products planned
- cross product activities
- new enhancement platform (NERS)
Ex Libris Report, Matti Shem Tov[edit]
Ex Libris Product Update Summary, Oren Beit-Arie and Nancy Dushkin[edit]
The OPAC is dead - Long live the OPAC - workshop, Daniel Forsmann[edit]
The aim is to make yourself aware of what you want and what you need in order to judge which product fits best and to be able to make the right decision for a discovery tool.
In advance the participants had to answer the following questions (The scale in questions 1 - 14 is 1 - 10 where 1 is the worst and 10 is best.):
- How happy are you with your current OPAC?
- How important is it to enrich the OPAC with external content (for instance forwarding searches, table of contents, covers, Google Books, integration with union catalogs, databases, Library Thing)?
- How important are RSS feeds in the OPAC?
- How important is it to be able to search the OPAC from other sources like Facebook, iGoogle, Netvibes ... ?
- How important is tagging in the OPAC?
- How important are user generated reviews and comments in the OPAC?
- How important are librarian-generated reviews and comments in the OPAC?
- How important are clustering of search results in the OPAC?
- How important is it to be able to do federated searching in selected databases/digital archives/institutional repositories from the OPAC?
- How important is it to to embed the OPAC into the library website (graphics and navigation)?
- How important is it to integrate link resolvers (like SFX) into the OPAC?
- How important is your access to the OPAC server and configuration?
- How important is it to make the catalog data available for external indexing (OAI-PMH, permanent URL:s for Google indexing)
- How important are OPAC API:s?
- Mention five features in you current OPAC that you apreciate. Please motivate, but keep short.
- Mention five features you miss in you current OPAC. Please motivate, but keep short.
- List up to 10 OPAC that you find inspiring or worth mentioning. Please motivate, but keep short.
- List up to 10 library websites that you find inspiring or worth mentioning. Please motivate, but keep short.
The presentation summarizes the results: http://www.slideshare.net/halwete/the-opac-is-dead-long-live-the-opac
Some explanatory notes of Daniel:
- important to present your content in your local environment, e.g. library website
- important to be able to present your content within an interface where the user wants it (using APIs)
- making people aware of that we (the library) exist, by being present with e.g. search boxes in facebook, although it's perhaps not used