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 More worrying than the average response, the most common response was just 3 out of 10! --OPAC Survey by Dave Pattern

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

VuFind An Open Source initiative from Villanova University

VuFind! one stop shopThe one stop shop for all library resources customizableCompletely customizable interface easy integrationAllows for easy integration into your library website template live statusConnects to your ILS for live status information Open Sourceand it’s Open Source!

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

Must Have Features Faceted ResultsSearch with Faceted Results More Like ThisMore Like This resource suggestions BrowseBrowse by call number, tags, language, subject, etc. Author BiographiesAuthor Biographies show what the library has

Web 2.0 Features Live Record StatusLive Record Status and Location with on the fly AJAX technology Save ResourcestagsSave Resources and organize with tags book covers reviewsView book covers and reviews from Amazon Persistant URLsBookmarkable records and queries with Persistant URLs Live UpdatesLive Updates with RSS Syndication

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References De Rosa, C., et al. (2006). College Students' Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources. Dublin, OH: OCLC. From Foster, N. F., & Gibbons, S. (2007). Studying students: The undergraduate research project at the University of Rochester. Retrieved from Gibbons_cmpd.pdf Gibbons_cmpd.pdf Pattern, D. (2007, April 16). OPAC survey - initial findings. From