1. Barn Raising One ILS at a Time Patti Butcher, State Library of Kansas, pattib@kslib.info Jeff Hixon, State Library of Kansas, jeffh@kslib.info Albert Flores, Auto-Graphics, abf@auto-graphics.com

2. “Barn Raising” One ILS at a Time Changing the Kansas Library Landscape

3. Kansas: “ Almost a Rectangle”

5. Library Landscape State Library of Kansas - Topeka

6. Overview of Kansas Libraries 328 Public Libraries – 77% in towns of 2500 or fewer 1200 School Libraries – 465,000 K-12 students 6 State Universities/ 30 two-year / 18 Independent Private Colleges – 175,000 students

7. Kansas Union Catalog 1971 – Idea/Development 1977 – KUC COM* & ILL – * Computer Output Microform 1984 – KUC Microfiche 1988 – CD Rom 1996 – Web Catalog

8. Changing of the Guard 2004 – Duane Johnson retires 2005 – Christie Brandau named State Librarian (formerly at Michigan SL)

9. LSTA Focus Shifts 2005 – 48% of KS Public Libraries are automated By 2009 – 80% of KS Public Libraries will be automated Grants awarded to Regional Library Systems to: create regional consortia automate libraries for the first time migrate other libraries to new system

10. Barriers for small libraries Retrospective conversion Maintaining a server Annual maintenance fees and other ongoing costs Lack of technical knowledge Lack of sufficient staff Initial cost investment Bandwidth Physical infrastructure (space, electrical)

11. Regional Automation Projects Variety of solutions implemented: Shared catalog – each library functions as a branch Shared system – hosted by a library Shared system – ASP / vendor hosted Proprietary and Open Source

12. Automation grants to regional systems

13. SwiftNet Southwest Kansas Library System Auto-Graphics VERSO ASP 30 public libraries Complies with SIP2/NCIP and Z39.50 capable Consortium catalog

16. NExpress Northeast Kansas Library System SirsiDynix Unicorn –hosted at KCPL 12 small public libraries SIP2/NCIP & Z39.50 Shared catalog with patron online loan requesting

19. Pathfinder Central Central Kansas Library System Koha ZOOM hosted package from LibLime 31 small public libraries SIP2/NCIP & Z39.50 Shared ILS/ union catalog/ patron self - ILL

20. Staff side – Pathfinder Central

21. Live Koha Catalog ExampleExample

25. Kansas Library Catalog - 2008 2008 – Hybrid Union Catalog: 903 libraries represented 5 million items 800+ libraries – static holdings information 50 libraries – Z target shelf status information Goal = 800+ libraries – Z target information

26. “Virtual” Kansas Library Catalog

29. SLK Website – v. 2007

31. Federated Search Developed by Auto-Graphics Simultaneously searches all SLK resources Takes user directly to browse grouped results Results grouped by Resource Capable of “Deep Web” searching

33. Quova – throughout the site

34. Explore our Resources

36. Quova –IP Address Authentication Uses geolocation authentication Applies IP Address lookup Can verify eligibility based on geographic location Eliminates need for traditional library card / bar code Provides 80% success rate for patrons

37. Vendor perspective on project Rural nature of state provides unique challenges and opportunities for a vendor Need to level playing field Balancing technology with real world issues Need to employ standards throughout statewide initiatives

38. Q & A Patti Butcher Jeff Hixon Albert Flores State Library of Kansas Auto-Graphics pattib@kslib.info jeffh@kslib.info abf@auto-graphics.com