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New Discovery Tools Symposium
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Libraries continue to migrate from out-of-the-box interfaces that search single collections to new products that promise, in various ways, to do a better job connecting people with the information they desire. OPACs are applying layers of lipstick, going open source, or fading away altogether. supplanted by new types of discovery tools. Federated search is mounting a comeback. Next-gen discovery tools promise to deliver the fabled single search box. Massive digitization projects are opening up the contents of books for discovery and--sometimes--retrieval. At the same time, proprietary, centralized projects like Google Books and OCLC's WorldCat Local are developing alongside less centralized, more open initiatives like the Open Content Alliance, eXtensible Catalog project, VuFind, and LibraryFind.
In the morning, invited speakers will provide an overview of the changing discovery landscape and the major issues and players involved. The afternoon will consist of a lightning round featuring 5-10 minute demonstrations and/or discussions of individual products. Time will be built into the afternoon session for attendees to present briefly on products being considered or implemented at their own institutions. The day will end with an open discussion and a consideration of next steps.
Sponsors: Boston Library Consortium, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), and NERCOMP.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Emily Alling of Marlboro College and Beatrice Pulliam of Providence College
Date/Time:
Monday, February 01, 2010
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center
Third Floor - Ballroom
Worcester, MA
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NERCOMP, BLC, and NITLE members: $95
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $95
Non-Members: $220
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Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 9:15am Welcome
9:15am - 10:30am One Library's Journey Toward Next-Generation Discovery and Delivery
Speaker: Steve Shadle, Serials Access Librarian, University of Washington Libraries
Catalog use studies indicate that the typical WebPAC does not provide a good resource discovery experience for the catalog user. In the current information landscape, with competing services claiming our users attention, libraries must provide better discovery and delivery tools. After an examination of the 'next-generation catalogs' available at the time, the University of Washington Libraries decided to partner with OCLC to develop a new service which would eventually become WorldCat Local. Steve will discuss problems with the user experience (and erroneous assumptions about that experience) that the UW Libraries had identified that led to the development of WCL, why existing systems did not address those problems and how we hoped WorldCat Local would provide an improved discovery and delivery experience. In addition Steve will discuss other ways that the UW Libraries has provided 'next-generation' servicesoutside of the library catalog environment.
10:30am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 12:00pm Information, Not Location: Putting the What in Front of the Where So
Patrons can Find When, Why and How
Speaker: Ken Varnum, Web Systems Manager, University of Michigan Library
At the University of Michigan Library, we recently launched a new library web site [www.lib.umich.edu] that strives to put the library's resources in the foreground while leaving the particular tools that manage and provide access to them in the background. The site, built on Drupal, VuFind, LibGuides, and Ex Libris's Metalib, integrates a range of library services without forcing the user to look in specialized interfaces for them. For example, a site search dynamically returns results from the catalog (including materials available through the HathiTrust), our ejournals and databases lists, our web site, research guides, and librarian subject specialists. Our more static browse pages highlight the best resources in each of these categories for our patrons.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 3:00pm Lightning Round
Participants and Topic:
Cecile Bianco, Assistant Catalog Librarian, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Topic: Extensible Catalog: A Preview
The Extensible Catalog is an open source software that will work alongside existing ILS such as Voyager, Koha, Evergreen, or Sirsi, to provide additional discovery environments. The XC schema includes elements with Dublin core, Marc and RDA. I would like to focus on the metadata services toolkit with a few comments on the the OAI Toolkit. The Metadata Services Toolkit harvests data from an existing ILS and allows you to normalize existing data and transform it into a FRBRized form. The OAI Toolkit is used to make data stored in an institution’s ILS or other repository available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.
Tania Fersenheim, Manager of Library Systems, Brandeis University
Topic: Implementing VuFind with Aleph
VuFind is designed to be ILS-independent, but there are adjustments each institution will need to make for their unique local environment. We offer a brief outline of some challenges we encountered while implementing VuFind, due to ways in which Aleph differs from other ILSes, as well as challenges stemming from local Aleph configuration choices.
Debbie Herman, Digital Resources Librarian, Head, Electronic Resources and Information, Central Connecticut State University
Topic: Our path to Worldcat Local “Quick Start” at Central Connecticut State University
In this lightening round session, Herman will describe CCSU’s adoption of WorldCat Local Quick Start as a replacement for the classic FirstSearch interface. She will explain the customization options available to Quick Start customers as well as the service’s integration of library collections and services, such as OpenURL, real-time holdings from the ILS, digital collections, and interlibrary loan. The social networking features of the interface will also be demonstrated.
Demian Katz, Library Technology Development Specialist, Villanova University
Topic: VuFind
This demonstration of the VuFind library discovery interface will provide a basic overview of the software's features with a special emphasis on the recent 1.0RC2 release and some discussion of the installation and configuration of the package.
Greg McClellan, Systems Librarian, Brandeis University
Topic: VuFind + WorldCat API
Alesia McManus, Head, Research and Instructional Services, SUNY Binghamton
Topic: The Discovery Sandbox: Encore & Aleph Playing Together
Binghamton University Libraries has been a development partner for Innovative Interfaces Encore discovery tool since 2006. We were the first library to use Encore with the Aleph ILS. I’ll touch on data, search, interface design and usability issues.
Kate Sheehan, Open Source Implementation Coordinator, Bibliomation
Topic: Discovering Open Source
Open source library automation products are a boon to the library community, but do they make a difference in discovery? Kate Sheehan will talk about Bibliomation's experience with their migration to Evergreen and demonstrate open source OPACs including Evergreen, Koha, and SOPAC.
3:00pm Evaluations and End
Speaker:
Alesia McManus
Alesia McManus has been with Binghamton University Libraries since 2004, first as Head of the Science Library and then as Head of Research and Instructional Services. Prior to coming to BU, she worked at University of Maryland Libraries (College Park), and North Carolina State University Libraries. Alesia received her MLS from UCLA in 1991. Her professional interests include new service models, social media, information literacy, user experiences, assessment, and usability.
Speaker:
Cecile Bianco
Cecile Bianco has worked at the University of Massachusetts as a catalog librarian for 5 years where she does cataloging, and works at the entering the metadata for the Institutional repository. She previously worked as a pharmacist and still teaches pharmacy at the community college level. She has been the Vice-Chair/Chair/Past Chair of the Massachusetts Library Association and in that role, helped Wei Jung Chu of the Worcester Public library organize a conference in the Future of the ILS at the Annual conference in 2008. She has written a paper for the Journal of the American Medical Association about librarians using social tagging software. She is interested in new discovery tools for OPACs which will be more attractive and usable for patrons.
Speaker:
Debbie Herman
Debbie Herman is Head of Electronic Resources and Information Systems at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. Debbie has been involved with library technology for the last decade and is a frequent presenter on topics ranging from web design and usability to mobile web technologies. She holds an MLS from SUNY Buffalo and an MA in American Studies from Trinity College.
Speaker:
Demian Katz
Demian Katz, Library Technology Development Specialist for Villanova University, is one of the current administrators of the VuFind project. Prior to joining the VuFind team, he spent four years in private sector web development and four years working in a large public library's reference department. He is greatly enjoying the opportunity to apply his mixed library/computer science background in an Open Source environment.
Speaker:
Kate Sheehan
Kate Sheehan is the Open Source Implementation Coordinator for Bibliomation, a consortium of public and school libraries in CT. She has been the Coordinator of Knowledge and Learning Services at Darien Library and the Coordinator of Library Automation at Danbury Public Library, which was the first library to implement LibraryThing for Libraries. Prior to joining Danbury Public Library, she was a technology and reference librarian at both Hamden Public Library and the Ferguson Library in Stamford, CT. A graduate of Smith College, Kate’s post-college experiences in the corporate workplace inspired her decision to get an MSLIS from Simmons. She finished library school in December of 2003 and has been happily ensconced in the public library sphere since then. When she’s not coordinating, she blogs at loosecannonlibrarian.net and ALA TechSource.
Speaker:
Ken Varnum
Ken Varnum has been integrating web technologies into library settings almost as long as there has been a web. He is currently the Web Systems Manager for the University of Michigan University Libraries in Ann Arbor. From 2004-2007, he was IT Manager at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Prior to that, he managed an internal peer-reviewed journal and the web site for Ford Motor Company's research library (1997-2004) and was Electronic Services Librarian at the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, Czech Republic (1995-1997). He can't believe he's been professionally employed doing such fun projects for 15 years. Ken blogs about innovative ways libraries use RSS at RSS4Lib.com.
Speaker:
Steve Shadle
Steve Shadle is the Serials Access Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries where he is responsible for link resolver and eSerial record set management, ILS coordination and serials cataloging. While Steve's professional roots are in serials cataloging (previously working as an ISSN Cataloger at the US ISSN Center), his recent focus has been on improving user access to serially-issued content (including his contributions to WorldCat Local development). Steve co-authored the popular SCCTP Electronic Serials Cataloging workshop and his writings have primarily appeared in Serials Review and Serials Librarian. Steve received his undergraduate degree in Linguistics and his Master of Librarianship both from the University of Washington. Go Dawgs!
Speaker:
Tania Fersenheim
Tania Fersenheim is Manager of Library Systems at Brandeis University. Tania has worked in library automation since 1995, on both sides of the library/vendor equation. After spending several years as a support analyst and trainer at Geac Computers, Tania went on to administer a diverse array of systems in academic libraries, including major vendor systems and an
increasing variety of open source systems and applications. Tania received her A.B. from Cornell University and her M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.
Related Media Files:
Discovery Tools Villanove Katz.pdf
Discovery Sandbox McManus.pdf
Worldcat Local Herman.pdf
Information, Not LocationVarnum.pdf
Discovery Shadle.pdf
DiscoveryBrandeis.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Comfort Inn, 426 Southbridge Street in Auburn, MA.
Please state that you are with NERCOMP and you will receive the reduced rate of $85, includes continental breakfast & internet access.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-508-832-8300
The room block will be held until January 22, 2010.
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