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Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0

Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0. Librarian’s Perspectives . On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you think your OPAC meets the needs and expectations of your users? average response out of 10: 4.56 mode response out of 10: 3 number of respondents: 727

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Next Generation Catalog The library OPAC meets Web 2.0

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  1. Next Generation CatalogThe library OPAC meets Web 2.0

  2. Librarian’s Perspectives On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you think your OPAC meets the needs and expectations of your users? average response out of 10: 4.56 mode response out of 10: 3 number of respondents: 727 More worrying than the average response, the most common response was just 3 out of 10! --OPAC Survey by Dave Pattern

  3. Online Libraries & Student Lifestyle Fit Although both [search engines and online libraries] are Internet-based, substantially more [student] respondents rate search engines as a perfect fit than online libraries. 30 percent of college students indicate the online library fits perfectly with their lifestyles, while 64 percent indicate search engines are a perfect fit with their lifestyles.15 percent of total respondents say the online library fits perfectly with their lifestyles. 55 percent rate search engines as a perfect fit. --OCLC Perceptions Report

  4. Web 2.0 More than a buzzword It's what our users expect us to emulate ... It’s a way to solve our problems

  5. 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

  6. Sites your patrons visit regularly • Google • Amazon • Facebook/MySpace • Flickr • Del.icio.us • Digg • Twitter • LibraryThing --All have 2.0 aspects to them

  7. Amazon v. OPAC • 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? • How many of your students are ordering books on Amazon for convenience versus using your catalog?

  8. One Final Note: User-Centered Design "User-centered design means designing things—technology, spaces, services—to meet the needs of the people who will use them and to perform well in real-life situations. In a university, user-centered design is not entirely straightforward. When we design for students, we design for people whose practices and preferences may be at odds with the university’s educational mission or their instructors’ demands. So user-centered design in higher education must take a broad view of the “user” and pay attention to a wide range of needs, preferences, and constraints on the part of numerous people who are served by the technology, spaces, and services the library provides." --Studying students report from Rochester University

  9. Possible Solutions • Aquabrowser (know.library.phila.gov/) • Primo (alphasearch.library.vanderbilt.edu) • Encore (discover.lib.msu.edu/iii/encore/app) • Endeca (www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/) • WorldCat Local (uwashington.worldcat.org) All cost $$$

  10. VuFind An Open Source initiative from Villanova University

  11. 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 statusinformation • and it’s Open Source!

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Web 2.0 Features • Live Record Status and Location with on the fly AJAX technology • Save Resources and organize with tags • View book covers andreviews from Amazon • Bookmarkable records and queries with Persistant URLs • Live Updateswith RSS Syndication

  15. Ugh! … Enough Slides Demo: www.vufind.org

  16. References • De Rosa, C., et al. (2006). College Students' Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources. Dublin, OH: OCLC. From http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/studentperceptions.pdf • Foster, N. F., & Gibbons, S. (2007). Studying students: The undergraduate research project at the University of Rochester. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/downloadables/Foster-Gibbons_cmpd.pdf • Pattern, D. (2007, April 16). OPAC survey - initial findings. From http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2007-April/043544.html

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