April 2008 Archives
Slideshow from our presentation at Computers in Libraries, 2008.
LibLime/Koha Project
Open source
Customers include a variety of libraries
Athens County Public Library demo
-relevance ranking, limit searches by facets, native support for rss feeds, realtime circulation access, built in spell check, lists, descriptions, reviews and ratings
Showed Near East Library (?) - when you click on a call number it gives you a map of where it's located in the library
Fully integrated - all available through one interface
ajax support in koha
Template system is very flexible - very easy to skin a system
VTech
This is very cool. We started creating this, but ran into problems with the worldcat indexing piece. Not sure who to go to to find out how to correct/figure this out??
Toolbar Options:
customized by the edition
can create advanced search
select field to be searched
takes you right to the library catalog
LibX Cues:
shows shield on web page and searches the isbn
user can highlight text, user can right click and do search within catalog
user can highlight and right click on isbn
users are in their search world, but it keeps taking them back to the library
Article Search
Roy Tennant – OCLC
Discovery system – public interface – doesn’t replace ils
ILS -> harvests data ->discovery system
Discovery system -> retrieves circ info -> ils
User -> searches ->discovery system
Replace ILS or just interface?
Open source?
Do you have expertise to set up and maintain locally
Are you willing to continually harvest data – ongoing process
Koha -
faceted browsing, highlighted keywords, ils and interface combined
Evergreen –
Facted searching – similar to koha
VuFind
Villanova
faceted browsing
clean interface
tabs, api to places like amazon to enrich record
LibraryFind
Oregon State
metasearch tool – includes article databases searches
WorldCat Local
UW
articles from small set of databases (?)
ranks search results based on local location first
Library Thing for Libraries
Kate Sheehan
similar books – based on books person has read
tag cloud-links to books in collection
see reviews and add reviews
provides stats -
ksheehan@darienlibrary.org
Loosecannonlibrarian.net
can only add tags through their own personal library thing account
Marshall Breeding
Vanderbilt University Libraries
Crowded landscape of info providers on the web
- non-library web destinations providing library info
- understandable sources (amazon)
Demand for compelling library interfaces
- interface users like to see
- move into current millenium
- powerful search capabilities
OPACs are inadequate!
- text based
- not great at delivering electronic content
- text-based
- weak keyword search
- no relevancy ranking
Disjointed approach to info and service delivery
- books, articles, ejournals, digital content - our users get lost!
Change is underway...
- new interfaces are coming, decouple front end interface from back end
- eventual redesign of ils
New Generation of Library interfaces:
- challenge traditional notions
- better delivery
- powerful search
- updated presentation
Redefining Catalog
- more comprehensiive
- no longer limuted to print, but digital cannot be afterthought
- one interface for delivery of all content
- consolidated user environments
Search
- federated? maybe more like open archibe initiative, consolidated based on metadata and data gathered in advance
Web 2.0 must be integrated
- Web Tools and technology to foster collaboration
- integrated blogs, wiki, tagging, social bookmarking, user ratings, user reviews
web services, xml apis, ajax, widgets - should be a basic part
Unified User Experience - single point of entry for print, electronic, local and remote, locally created content AND user created content
Programs and research
International files pending
- 47% non-English
-focus on getting more global as they move beyond batch loading
Next Gen Cat Svcs Pilot
-ONIX metadat from publishers and vendors
On The Record (LC Study)
WorldCat API
-limited release
-10-15 dev from cataloging institutions
-search of worldcat and retreival holdings
-developers build apps that will drive people back to OCLC services
OCLC can harvest metadata from ContentDM -
Q: talk with Linda about users group meeting
NetLibrary
-single point of access
WorldCat Collection Analysis
-analyze usage data
Question Point
-devloped by LC anf OCLC
-1900 libraries
-question point "qwidget" - embed chat services
WebJunction
Gates foundation
rural library sustainability
tech planning
online learning
spanish language outreach
WorldCatRegistry
-single institutional profile
WorldCat.org
-artcles citations
ip address authentication instead of zipcode to find libraries
-2.5 million unique users - 750,000 clickthroughs to library catalogs
-worldcatlist usage
-to come: tagging,listsharing, groups, ratings
WorldCat Identities
-author info
WorldCatFacebook widget
WorldCat Blog
WorldCat Local Pilot
-showed lincoln trails library system
-University of Washington - 70% increase in local consortia borrowing - 100% increase in ILL traffic
Pilot Partners:
- State of Illinois
- Ohio State
- UCaliformia System
- Peninsula Library System - California
cornell, state library of ohio, UDeelaware, UMaryland System, UTexas at Austin
OCLC Global cooperative
Consolidation in Library Community (sirsidynix, exlibris, proquest)
OCLC - acquisition of ezproxy, will be integrated into other library services
Non-profit, membership cooperative
-advance research and education, presserve knowledge, pursue programs to benefit libraries and their operation
-extend cooperative
new services
new tech platform - weave libraries into the web
moving into open architecture models, marc, dublin core and other standards, cataloging tool and end user resource
local, group and global nodes that work together to provide access to the world's libraries
-authoritative list comparisons
One of four interface implementation presentations at the Sirsi SuperConference PreConference:
VuFind Implementation
Tim McGeary
Lehigh University
Open Source
- cat records
- local journals
- digital library items
- institutional repository
- Faceted searching
- partnered with Villanova, palinet
- Yahoo gui
- homepage completely customizable
System info:
- Apache Solr
- crossplatform for OS
- Apache webserver 2.2
- PHP 5.2.0 or later
- MySQL 4.1 or later
- Java J2SE JDK 1.5 or later
Alpha:
- faceted searching
- MARC xml import
- LDAP authentication
Beta 0.5
- spell check
- tagging and commenting per record
- persistent url for searches
- RSS feed for searches
Beta 0.7
- internationalization
- enhanced browse
- more complete installation (checks dependencies, less manual config)
- zotero support
- staff view of records
Beta 0.8
- java based MARC import scrpt - FAST!
- Book covers, reviews from amazon or syndetics
Production (Summer 08)
- add/purge nightly
- record view based on format
- web-based admin
- stats
Future...
- federated search - PazPar2
- full installation
- suggested resources and searches
Additional features (current and future)
- full record - includes reviews and cover art
- staff view of all records
- "cite this record"
- email capabilities - from record
- add to favorite
- all records are persistent urls
- offers similar item suggestions
- search history
- faceted browsing, based on LC
- circulation info in realtime - live API call to ILS
- Will release API to Sirsi API repository
One of four interface implementation presentations at the Sirsi SuperConference PreConference
Primo
Dale Poulter
Vanderbilt University
- finding tool
- retreival tool
- simple interface to collections
- increased focus on user-centered design
- personalization - through LDAP and EZProxy
Benefits
- fast for local search (but very slow for federated search)
- runs metalib in background for federated search
- flexible
- faceted searching (site can define)
- spell checking (did you mean) - only returns "did you mean" suggestions that have search terms associated with it
- increased visibility of subscription databases
- increased usability of ejournals
Notes:
- Vanderbilt elected to leave all 2.0 features enabled - reviews, tagging, eshelf, rss
- Single sign-on (login to primo same as login to unicorn/vanderbilt libraries!!!)
- Brief and full display are customizable but must include author and title
- (version 2 - april23 - author title display won't be mandatory - but why wouldn't you want them???)
- Gets cover art from amazon - no charge - but must contain link to amazon in footer area
- Highlights search terms in results
- Can do tagging and reviews(must be logged in)
- Can search names of databases or can search within databases themselves
- Faculty tagging resources with course name for their class materials
- RSS feeds available for search
Additional Features:
- Reindexing - ability to reindex while systemis available, ability to apply index rules without reloading records
- uses x-server - imports directly from metalib
- Multisearch quicksets are incorporated into primo
Q: Can you turn off empty images?
Aqua Browser
Kathie Harris
Alachua Public Library District
Set up:
· Separate servers
· Indexed nightly
· Click on an item and it takes you back into the catalog
· Display area is very modifiable
· Yearly maintenance includes upgrades (they are currently running their original version- have not upgraded
· Deep linking back to catalog
· Added databases
· Set different relevance for different MARC fields
New features:
· Call #s displayed in hit list
· Icons for formats
· Rss feeds
Sirsi Enterprise
Berit Nelson
Jared Oates
Phase 1 – release date August 2008
Interface:
· Updated look and feel
· Enhancement to OPAC
· “fuzzy” search logic as well as “did you mean?”
o Fuzzy search based on “trigrams” – broken down into 3 characters at a time
· Immediate response
· Search widget to place on web pages
· Theme support
· Faceted search on MARC and non-MARC records
· Bookmarkable records and searches
o Search url is stateless – url does not contain any session info
o Enter url, search is recreated so all new info is included
· Customized with css and javascript
· Record display is not customizable/configurable
Admin interface
· Create groups in admin completely separate from from backend
· Provide templates that can be changed/customized in many ways
· Search index based on changes rather than on nightly complete record dumps
· Manage profile
o set facet display
o set up friendly url
o all things configurable within a profile means that a profile can be configurable for any audience – language, look and feel, data sources, facets
Phase 2 – available 2009
· Offers more web 2.0 technologies
o Ratings
o User reviews
o Rss feeds
o Tagging
o Library favorites
o Data sources beyond catalog
o Discovery tools
· Integrates additional data sources (federated search and library favorites)
· Incorporating other resources (METASEARCH)
· Immediate and intuitive faceted search experience
Relevance Ranking:
· Order of words
· How close they appear
· Exact matches weighted as more relevant
Set up:
· Initial record dump
· Incremental changes
· Interface is separate from catalog as a whole
· Any user interaction takes you into your own opac
· Hosted by Sirsi
Keynote
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet and American Life Project
Smart, funny and he LOVES librarians :-)
Session E101 – Learning From Newspaper Publishing
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Brian Kroski, VP & GM Online, Observer Media Group
The recent redesign of the New York Observer website (www.observer.com) transformed the paper into a daily social news source and a revolutionary experience for its readers. By incorporating blogging, alternate content views, user commenting, tag clouds, and social bookmarking, the New York Observer has set the bar for the future of online news delivery.
Learning From Newspaper Publishing
Brian Kroski, VP & GM Online, Observer Media Group
www.observer.com
-running entire site on drupal 6
-syndicating alot of content to itunes, YouTube
-start with small projects, be prepared to be wrong - stay agile, use partners and services for non-core, constantly iterate and improve, solicit user feedback to shape goals, measure success
Fast and Easy Site Tune - Ups
Jeff Wisniewski
University of Pittsburgh
1. Update copyright
<p>Copyright ©<script type="text/javascript">
var d=new Date();
document.write(d.getFullYear());</script>
2. add last updated code to each page - one external script file
3. Add photos to contacts - research indicates that this will boost contact
4. Microformats - implementation of semantic web http://www.webstandards.org/action/dwtf/microformats/ - allows you to create this in dreamweaver - hcard creator - creates code for you to add to page
Tails/operator both extensions for microformat enabled
5. remove all instances of "click here"
6. survey monkey - 3 question survey
-what is the purpose of the visit to your site today
-were successful/unsuccessful in completing your task
-why or why not
-ask for their email
7. add final slash to any directory link
8. web 2.0ify your logo - large chunks of sans serif type/rounde edges
web 2.0 stylr
enter text/font, choose colors will create logo
9. icons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/crystal_clear
10. web site performance
-firebug
-Yslow
11. Cache-
serever config file-
set certain file types to stay fresh/ not expire
12. eliminate inline scripts - call your js, css etc externally
13. inline scripts for your homepage
14 validate your markup
15. clean css - cleancss - compresses/makes smaller -smaller and leaner
16. SEO page titles - google webmaster accounts - diagnostics - doc title/section name/library site name
17. add labels to your forms
18. social bookmarks creator - get code for social bookmarks to add to your page
Engaging The Audience
Binky and Emily - phew! presentation over :-)
Temple - Kristina DeVoe, Derik Badman
Libguides and how they are using them for subject guides.Impressive ofr their first semester of implementation - use of multimedia content
Interesting/useful Links:
Think about:
Skype for video reference?
SUNY, Pottsdam
Building presence in social networking software
Facebook/myspace
mfarkas@gmail.com
why should the library have a profile?
- build presence where our users are
- provide a portal to our services
- feedback
Possible applications that can be used with library facebook pages:
flogblog
instructional videos
slideshare
delicious (recent bookmarks)
meebomewidget
sms messaging
Useful students services: (a profile with a point)
Catalog/database search tool
syndicate library news
show bookmarks
suggestion box
Myspace
ex: university of miami myspace page
Practical considerations
- where is your population
- what value are you adding?
- how can you pull more contetnt into your presence?
- marketing/raising awareness
- policies - friending?joining group? innapropriate messages
- networking aspects
- use libguides to display subject guides
- pull in Library news from blog (using feed2Js)
- im widget
- provide link to website/portal to library service within courseware/customized courseware pages
rapport building
access
time
technical
What to do with that great idea
Jenica Rogers-Urbanek
- collaborative does not equal self propelled
- sell the idea, energize participants, take action
- support from above, across and below
- sell the project - utility, what need, what goal, what will it facilitate
- be relevant to internal needs, individual need, data to support argument
- reasonable expectations
- user assessment
- strive for acheivable resulys - solve 1 problem
- measurable results
- training
- show and tell, documentation, hands on exploration, private learning before public rollout, integrate learning into doing
- have/"be" an expert who is prepared to help at all times
- plan for success(is your project scalable?), write it down (document!) , assess the project, respond to criticism (and then make appropriate changes), plan for failure (do you have an exit strategy), prepare the ground that you are planning to work on
http://academiclibrary2point0.pbwiki.com
Blogs-excellent overview on how to make your blog effective
Amanda Etches-Johnson
- Sharing news and events
- reaching out to users
- using blog as virtual suggestion box
- chronicling the library (construction updates, new collections)
- content reuse (through rss - getting more mileage out of content)
- humanizes/personalizes the library - make it compelling
- share authorship - shares the work and can be a good dynamic
- boxesandarrows.com/people - personalize with profiles
- best practices:
- mission - purpose and scope dictates content - publish this on the blog
- know your audience - make no assumptions (ex: what happens when they add a comment)
- examples: Scholarly Communications @ Duke
- engaging with your community through comments/responding, encouraging conversation
- example - ann arbor district library blog - what are they doing right/well
- blogwithoutalibrary.net
- make your blog look good/add other media - take pictures from archives/research collection and putting it on flikr, adding to blog
- feed2js
- example - link off home page to "talking in the library" kansas state library
- link to blog from ref email signature
- make use of trackbacks
- googleblogsearch
Chad Boeninger
Ohio University
- tech doc, prof organization, web site
- wiki as internal library communication
- becomes knowledgebase (keyword searchable, add and edit content wherever they are
- Wiki as subject/research guide - searchable (everything in wiki is a keyword term), you can check usage stats,
- never static, flexible, adaptable
Social Bookmarking
Jason Griffey
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Jason-griffey@utc.edu
- find, organize, reuse
- metatags - use of for: Q: are we doing this for psul? Q: what is the tag for psulibraries aggregated delicious tags? Q: Can we list linkroll somewhere? Subject library pages??
- system:filetype:mp3
- tags - rss
- http://del.icio.us/rss/fwlush or http://del.icio.us/rss/fwlush/widgets+library
- rss + media=podcast so...everyone's videos about libraries http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:video+library
- pull rss into blog or web page - page is populated with stuff you've tagged
- daily blog post - http://delicious/help/sharing
- how can this be used?
- pathfinders, internal communication of resources, feeds for subject specialists, rss into course system for classes, personal research tool
- advanced use:
- open API, network, subscribe to given tags, JSON (javascript Object Notification, history of url: http://delicious/url?url=http://www.libraries.psu.edu
- license your feed: creative commons
- import/export of all info
- Book: Library Blooging (www.libraryblogging.com)
http://tlt.symposium.psu.edu
"I'm missing my daughter's cheerleading competition", "I should be at my kids' track meet", "My wife is running our two kids in fifteen different directions this morning"
Despite the bad mommy (and daddy) jokes that we all guiltily laughed over - the TLT Symposium on Saturday was a truly worthwhile way to spend a Saturday. Larry Lessig's presentation on "Freeing Learning and Teaching to Teach and Learn" was inspiring both in its message and its presentation - flawless and funny. Lessig is a smart guy - very cool to have him at a Penn State Conference.
Encouraging Social Networking with Non-traditional Students
Steve Brady (Harrisburg) led this session - a lively one with good conversation. It was less about specific tools for social networking among students and more about how and why it can help students - especially non-traditional ones.
Communicating with Blogs and Online Maps
Peter Linehan, Mont Alto
New way to communicate geo-referenced information in many disciplines. Peter showed us projects his class had done using google maps, google earth and blogs.
Lunch/Faculty Panel
Kathleen Taylor Brown, Laura Guertin and Nichola Gutgold (stand in for a sick Christopher Long)
Showed some amazing student projects using the Digital Commons on their campuses.
Utlization of Digital Commons for Outreach and Education
Laura Guertin, Brandywine
Peter Spizzirri, Student, UP
Laura and Peter (one of the students in Laura's honors earth science class) discussed the multimedia projects created in and for this class. Use of the digital commons helped students showcase their creativity - amazingly professional. The projects were impressive and as was the way Laura Guertin taught her students not only earth science but multimedia production expertise and a new and effective way to communicate their knowledge, thoughts and opinions.
I'll be willing to give up another Saturday next year for Symposium 2009!
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