Choosing a Discovery Tool

Here is a good blog post http://laureltarulli.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/choosing-a-discovery-tool/

The article/power point links at the end of the post are useful, especially the first two power point presentations.

Summon by Serials Solutions

Hot of the presses -- a new player in the next-gen OPAC product category:

"Introducing the Summon™ service, the revolutionary new unified discovery service from Serials Solutions." For more info, see http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon/.

eXtensible Catalog Project metadata paper

From a recent NGC4LIB list posting:

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project at the University of Rochester announces the release of a major white paper describing the project's approach to metadata. The paper describes how the development of an XML schema for XC and the creation of a platform for enriching and transforming metadata (the XC Metadata Services Toolkit) benefit not only future users of the XC software, but also the broader library community.

"Supporting the eXtensible Catalog through Metadata Design and Services" by Jennifer Bowen (Co-Principal Investigator, XC Project) is now available at the project's website.

Nextgen OPAC Implementation Example

This is a good slide show example of a nextgen OPAC implementation process by the University of Pittsburgh, Voyager to AquaBrowser. http://www.slideshare.net/jeffwisniewski/next-generation-opac-presentation

*I suggest clicking on full screen mode to view.

Notice that slide 12 is a comparison matrix of features, similar to the table on the Nextgen OPAC wiki

New catalog http://pittcatplus.pitt.edu/

Old catalog http://pittcat.pitt.edu/ Has a link to the new catalog and information page about the improved features.

Read for next meeting

Calhoun Report

FRBR by Tilly

IS - survey - Metalib

5-6 questions
open ended

What should they be?
Any suggestions welcome!

Possible Questions:

1.Do you anticipate using metalib often? More often then specific database interfaces?
2.Why or why not?
3.What do you like about metalib?
4.What do you see as the limitations of metalib?

IS response to Metalib

From a public service viewpoint, what do you think of Metalib? How do you like federated searches? What are the strengths and weaknesses of federated searching?