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When You're Not a Developer: Managing VuFind without technical experience

Learn how to manage the open-source discovery tool VuFind without technical expertise. This guide explores the basics of VuFind, effective communication strategies, useful tools, unexpected effects, handling digital collections, and more.

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When You're Not a Developer: Managing VuFind without technical experience

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  1. When You're Not a Developer:Managing VuFind without technical experience Marliese Thomas Librarian for Special Collections Technology Auburn University Libraries

  2. Explain Understanding it yourself What is: • Discovery • Open source • Why are we doing this? • How does it work? Explaining it to others • Analogies

  3. Communicate • Within the committee • Email => listserv • Wiki => Google Doc => blog => Redmine • With administration • Meetings, meetings, more meetings • Face time - committee, administrators • When, where, how often • Tools • Email • Blog/wiki • Tracking

  4. Unexpected effects • Beyond the OPAC • Courier Service • 75% rise in completed transactions • Had to hire additional student workers • Digital collections • Who knows? • Handing off to another manager • More communication

  5. Effects • People find you • Problems • Questions • Opinions • Digital collections • Other collections Image from: http://kara.allthingsd.com

  6. In the end…. Many considerations… …. But we think it’s worth it.

  7. Thanks much! Marliese Thomas Librarian for Special Collections Technology msthomas@auburn.edu

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