Ministerial Conference on Information Infrastructure for Science, Education, and Culture Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technology and Research Vanderbilt University Library

  Repository for library automation data  Expanding to include more international scope  Announcements and developments made by companies and organizations involved in library automation technologies

 Started building database in 1995  Most comprehensive resource for tracking ILS and other library automation products  Serves as a directory for general public  Specialized tool for tracking ILS and other automation products  40,825 Total libraries listed  384 Slovenian Libraries  Need data for libraries in other countries in region

Annual Industry report published in Library Journal:  2009: Investing in the future  2008: Opportunity out of turmoil  2007: An industry redefined  2006: Reshuffling the deck  2005: Gradual evolution  2004: Migration down, innovation up  2003: The competition heats up  2002: Capturing the migrating customer

 Vision of the possibilities for library interfaces well suited for today’s information environment  No single product implements all possibilities  These concepts are not necessarily connected to the COBISS OPAC, but may stimulate ideas to stimulate new directions.

 Lots of non-library Web destinations deliver content to library patrons ◦ Google Scholar ◦ Amazon.com ◦ Wikipedia ◦ Ask.com  Do Library Web sites and catalogs meet the information needs of our users?  Do they attract their interest?

 Print > Electronic  Increasing emphasis on subscribed content, especially articles and databases  New emphasis on digitizing local collections  New generations of library users: ◦ Millennial generation ◦ Web savvy ◦ Pervasive Web 2.0 concepts

 Urgent need for libraries to offer interfaces their users will like to use  Powerful search capabilities in tune with how the Web works today  Meet user expectations set by other Web destination  Maintain quality of searching in precision, predictability, and scope

 Silos Prevail ◦ Books: Library OPAC (ILS module) ◦ Articles: Aggregated content products, e- journal collections ◦ OpenURL linking services ◦ E-journal finding aids (Often managed by link resolver) ◦ Local digital collections  ETDs, photos, rich media collections ◦ Metasearch engines  All searched separately

 Widespread dissatisfaction with legacy OPACs. Many efforts toward next- generation discovery layer products.  Movement among libraries to break out of the current mold of library catalogs and offer new interfaces better suited to the expectations of library users.  Decoupling of the front-end interface from the back-end library automation system.  Eventual redesign of the ILS to be better suited for current library collections of digital and print content

 Modern Interface ◦ Visual appeal ◦ Relevancy-based retrieval ◦ Faceted navigation  Comprehensive, global scope  Deep indexing

 More comprehensive information discovery environments  Primary search tool that extends beyond print resources  Digital resources cannot be an afterthought  Systems designed for e-content only are also problematic  Forcing users to use different interfaces depending on type of content becoming less tenable  Libraries working toward consolidated user environments that give equal footing to digital and print resources

 Card Catalogs  Library online catalogs – OPACs  Discovery interfaces  Web-scale discovery services

 A single point of entry to all the content and services offered by the library

 Single search box  Query tools ◦ Did you mean ◦ Type-ahead  Relevance ranked results  Faceted navigation  Enhanced visual displays ◦ Cover art ◦ Summaries, reviews,  Recommendation services

 Online Catalog ◦ Interface conventions from an earlier Web era ◦ Scope: Tied to the ILS and its content domain  Discovery Layer ◦ Modern interface elements ◦ Scope: aims to address broad range of components that constitute library collections 

◦ Tags, user-supplied ratings and reviews ◦ Leverage social networking interactions to assist readers in identifying interesting materials: BiblioCommons ◦ Leverage use data for a recommendation service of scholarly content based on link resolver data: Ex Libris bX service

 AquaBrowser  Ex Libris Primo  Innovative Interfaces: Encore  Serials Solutions: Summon (under development)  SirsiDynix Enterprise  The Library Corporation: LS2 PAC  VUFind (open source)  BiblioCommons  eXtensible Catalog (under development)

 Earliest and most implemented discovery interface  Developed by Medialab Solutions in The Netherlands  Now owned by R.R. Bowker, part of CIG  Features word cloud, faceted navigation, relevancy ranked results

 Based on Apache Solr search toolkit  Lead developer: Andrew Nagey (now with Serials Solutions)   Libraries using VuFind: ◦ National Library of Australia; Villanova University; CARLI, University of Georgia libraries, South Dakota Library Network, etc

 Initially developed by John Blyberg  Build on Drupal

 Developed at the University of Virginia  Apache SOLR  Ruby on Rails interface  Libraries working with Blacklight include: ◦ Stanford University, University of Virginia

 University of Rochester – River Campus Libraries  Financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  ◦ Two rounds of funding from Mellon  $283,000 (April 2006)  $749,000 (October 2007) ◦ Wider institutional participation

 Initial products focused on technology ◦ AquaBrowser, Endeca, Primo, Encore, VUfind ◦ Mostly locally-installed software  Current phase focused on pre-populated indexes that aim to deliver Web-scale discovery ◦ Summon (Serials Solutions) ◦ WorldCat Local (OCLC) ◦ EBSCO Discovery Service (EBSCO) ◦ Primo Central

 Pre-populated indexes  Web-scale  Increased full-text indexing

 New-generation interface  Harvested local content ◦ ILS metadata ◦ Institutional repositories, ETDs, Digital Collection platforms  Vendor-supplied indexes of library content ◦ E-journals, databases, e-books  Full-text and metadata corresponding to e-content subscriptions ◦ Book collections beyond local library collections

 Indexing the full corpus of information available globally  Or at least major portions  Google aims to address all the world’s information  Not quite comprehensive – partial harvesting of any given resource  Discovery Layer Products for libraries aim to address all content collected by libraries:  Print  Remotely access electronic content: e-journals, e-books, databases, licensed and open access.  Local special collections: digital and print.  Addresses the comprehensive body of content held within library collections  Comprehensive, unified

 Entering post-metadata search era  Increasing opportunities to search the full contents ◦ Google Library Print, Google Publisher, Open Content Alliance, government publications, etc. ◦ High-quality metadata will improve search precision  Commercial search providers already offer “search inside the book” and searching across the full text of large book collections  Not currently available through library search environments  Deep search highly improved by high-quality metadata

 New Discovery Service – initial libraries now in production  Consolidated index harvested from many sources ◦ ProQuest, Gale, Thompson Reuters (Web of Science), LexisNexis, etc ◦ 500,000,000 articles represented ◦ Full-text search + Citations  Local catalog data harvested, real-time link to holdings  Other local repositories harvested  Others available through metasearch

 Repository of article-level indexes maintained and hosted by Ex Libris  Available to Primo sites without additional cost  Move more content from metasearch to local index

 Agreement with OCLC for WorldCat data  EBSCO Host interface and content  Content from other publishers and providers

 Existing service in pilot stage for new discovery service  WorldCat.org data + ArticleFirst (30 million articles)  Agreement with EBSCO to load EBSCOhost citation data into WorldCat  Pursuing agreements with additional content providers

 No-cost option to FirstSearch subscribers  No reclamation to reconcile local ILS with WorldCat  One ILS supported; must be among supported products  Program to expose thousands of libraries to WorldCat Local as a discovery option

 Now viewed as separate problem  Many interdependencies  Current model of feeding discovery systems from many underlying repositories ◦ ILS / e-journal collections / collections of digital objects  Will models of resource management change to consolidate the repositories?  Realign Discovery and management?

 Traditional Proprietary Commercial ILS ◦ Millennium, Symphony, Polaris  Traditional Open Source ILS ◦ Evergreen, Koha  Clean slate automation framework (SOA, enterprise-ready) ◦ Ex Libris URM, OLE Project  Cloud-based automation system ◦ WorldCat Local (+circ, acq, license management)

 Beyond selecting one brand from an assortment of similar products  Several conceptually diverse options  Companies and projects now competing on innovation