The New IUCAT: Powered by Blacklight Courtney Greene Head, Discovery & Research Services IU Bloomington Libraries Digital Library Brown Bag Series October 9, 2013 #dlbb

IPFW One discovery layer, eight front doors? Nine campuses IUCAT – shared statewide online catalog SirsiDynix Symphony ILS System-wide request delivery Diversity of collections (monographs, e-resources, various media) Statewide participation leads to a complex data environment: -Who shares records? What records? How? -Cataloging services provided to “extra-systems” libraries -Vendor records -Widely varying formats, classification schemes; numerous languages

IUCAT Classic One-size-fits-all public interface has its costs How to best serve all campuses and enable flexibility? IUCAT Classic One-size-fits-all public interface has its costs How to best serve all campuses and enable flexibility?

Review took place in early 2011, candidate applications were Blacklight & VuFind Either system judged able to fulfill baseline requirements Report & recommendations available at: Discovery Layer Selection

Reasons for choosing Blacklight Exceptional flexibility Development community Other general requirements included Integrate non‐MARC metadata from local collections Integrate with technologies enabling single sign on for login to IUCAT services (My Account, tagging, lists, etc) & off‐campus access to online resources. Permalinks for records & searches Generate properly formatted citations for major styles (Chicago, APA, MLA). Single search box on screen (with access to advanced search) that performs a keyword search using an index defined by librarians. Highlights on Selection

Work began in Summer 2011 public beta release in November 2012 transition to Blacklight interface as primary entry point in May 2013 A few details Ruby v PHP Data: Indexing, refreshing, displaying Campus views Browse Call Number Implementation

Implementation: campus views

Implementation: call number browse

Implementation: tricky bits Authentication & account management My Account services Off-campus authentication Single sign-on (sort of) Requesting items Data Going from more to less structured search Format fun! Statewide scope

Publicity & user feedback

Looking forward Lists New titles Enhanced views / additional customization by campus or format Transition to Kuali OLE

Discovery Strategy for Kuali OLE Implement catalog discovery layer overlay (Blacklight) - check Expected Kuali OLE Implementation December 2014 Integration with Blacklight and EDS for subscribing campuses (Bloomington, Kokomo, South Bend) Integration with other structured data sources (not explicitly dependent on OLE migration) IU Digital Collections Other campus specific or contextual search data

Discovery Strategy for Kuali OLE Implement catalog discovery layer overlay (Blacklight) - check Expected Kuali OLE Implementation December 2014 Integration with Blacklight and EDS for subscribing campuses (Bloomington, Kokomo, South Bend) Integration with other structured data sources (not explicitly dependent on OLE migration) IU Digital Collections Other campus specific or contextual search data Attend the Dec 11 th Brown Bag for more on this idea!

Ebsco Discovery Service IU Bloomington o EDS beta partner, launched as in August 2011 o Integrated into library site search/resource gateway search, link on home page, tab in subject guides, tabbed search box on Find Information page o Drupal 7 module for website integration IU Kokomo o Launched Sept 2011 o Search box on home page, Find Information page, resources A-Z guide, and Public Access & Research Resources page IU South Bend o Launching for upcoming academic year All campuses share a single catalog extract

Campus specific SD Symphony 3 rd Party Data APIs IU Kokomo IU Southeast IU Bloomington, South Bend Architecture IUCAT (Blacklight) IU Kokomo Archival Collections Digital Library Collections

Additional reading on the project Moore, Kate B., and Courtney Greene. 2012a. “The Search for a New OPAC: Selecting an Open Source Discovery Layer.” Serials Review 38 (1) (March): 24–30. Greene, Courtney, Barbara Gushrowski, Randall Lent, Chris Evin Long, Mary Beth Minick, Kate Banet Moore, Gwendolyn Pershing, Mary Pagliero Popp, and Susan Skekloff “IU Libraries Discovery Layer Task Force Summary Report and Recommendation”. Indiana University Libraries. Thank you! Courtney Greene