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Connecting Users to Collections
1. Connecting users to Collections
Collection Development/Resource Sharing Conference
March 26, 2009
Jean Phillips
Florida Center for Library Automation
jeanp@ufl.edu
2. Connecting users to Collections
• There is no one place/one tool/one starting
point/one type of user
• The tool that best represents what we have
available to our users is the catalog
• How are we improving the catalog?
• Are they using it?
3. Are they using the catalog?
• Mango averages
over 1 million
searches a month
• Statistics from
FY2007/2008
4. How are we improving the catalog?
• Stealth OPACs
• Better User Interfaces
• Wider Discovery
• More Interactive
• Clearer Delivery Options
5. “Stealth Opacs”
• Coined by David Pattern in his blog “Self-plagiarism is style”
• Most important feature of nextgen catalog in 2007 survey
15. Example using one of the tools
• Get an email about interesting lecture on the
TED website, topic is organization structures
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19. Better User Interfaces
• More like other Web interfaces
• Less instruction required for basic use
• More access points, ways to search
• Progressive improvement of look and feel
24. Mango is born
• Mango is FCLA created web application that
uses the Endeca search engine and repository
• Began work in October 2007
• Went live in August 2008
• Still maintaining Aleph OPACs
• 9.1 million bibliographic records
• Aleph records from 11 SULs merged into one
record
27. Better User Interfaces
• David Pattern’s Top 5 Priorities
– Stealth OPAC
– Relevance ranking
– Faceted searching
• Special collections facets
• New Title facet
– RSS
– Did you mean
• Other features important to SULs
– Export/save options
– Guided Navigation
– Text to mobiles
– Permalinks
30. Mango interactive
• Live connection to LMS info. in Aleph
– Availability
– Patron accounts/Renewals
– Requests
• Book covers and more from Google books
• Citation formats from WorldCat: “Cite this”
• Export of citations to Refworks
• Text of title and call no. to cell phones
• Linking out to library location maps: “floor map”
33. Wider discovery: what’s in your
catalog?
• Aleph catalog records: 16 million bibliographic
records merged into 8 million
• Center for Research Libraries
• Digital collections: DLU01/Digitool
34. Wider discovery: what could be added?
• UF Digital Collections
• Wolfsonian Museum
• IFAS EDIS publications
• E-Gov Docs
• Open Access Digitized books (Mbooks or all
Hathi Trust)
• Non-MARC resources
35. Delivery: How do our users quot;get it”?
• Open URLs, link resolvers (sfx and Serials solutions)
36. Delivery: electronic
• URLs in the metadata, for example:
– Digital objects
• Images
• Full text
• Video/audio
– Federal Government documents
– Ejournals
– Ebooks
44. Delivery: Future
• Uborrow
– Unmediated borrowing
– 1st Phase returnables within SULs
– Aleph ILL or ILLiad
– later phases
• expand to CCLA colleges and beyond
• articles
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46. Continuous improvement
• SUL OPAC subcommittee development list
• Articles – in process
• Ideas to be prioritized
– Social tagging
– Recommender
– Reviews
– Integrated course reserves
– Subject oriented interfaces
– More data sources
– Cross references from Authority records
47. Future of interfaces?
• Sixth sense project at MIT
– “Wearable gestural interface”
– http://www.pranavmistry.com/project
s/sixthsense/#PICTURES
– Ultimate mobile device