Ranny Lacanienta Director de Estrategias para Productos Académicos - Sirsi Dynix

1. Ranny Lacanienta
Director, Academic Product Strategy
SirsiDynix
Today’s forecast for your campus:
BLUEcloud!

2. • MOOCs and online education
• Class size/budget cuts
• leading to high faculty::student ratios (fewer research assignments)
• Fewer resources (collection, personnel, programs/professional dev)
• Declining circulation/gate counts
• Library space experimentation
Top Academic Library Challenges

3. • New initiatives and collaborative opportunities
• Cooperative roles for researchers, repositories and journal
publishers
• Partnerships related to discovery and re-use of data
• Open access
• Open education (OERs)
Top Academic Trends
Source: acrl.org

17. Life is about connections.

19. We want you
to thrive and flourish.

20. B
L
E
U
est
ibrary
ser
xperience

21. BLUEcloud:
/blo͞o-kloud/ (n.)
Powerful, next-generation,
web-based platform that works
with both Horizon and Symphony and
uses a Service Oriented Architecture.

22. Best-of-Breed:
/blo͞o-kloud/ (adj.)
An open software development
approach focused on choice,
flexibility, and connectivity.

23. It’s all about:
Integration
Extensibility
Connectivity
Openness
Flexibility
Expandability
Partnerships and Alliances

24. Ken Chad, “Rethinking the Library Systems Platform” Jan 2016
No single vendor will be able to develop
all the applications necessary to meet
the requirements of a library
—and librarians like to see choice in
the market.
’’
’’

25. The All-in-one Approach

26. All-in-one Caution: Just because
you can, doesn’t mean you should

27. The Best-of-breed Approach
Use the best
tool for the
job

29. BLUEcloud
How to get to

30. No Migration
Keep your same database
Leave your data untouched
Retain your integrations
Choose your pace

31. No Migration
Keep your same database
Leave your data untouched
Retain your integrations
Choose your pace
You are herealready

32. You don’t move to BLUEcloud…
comes to you.

33. Library Services Platform (LSP)
• Cloud-based

34. Library Services Platform (LSP)
• Cloud-based
• Multitenant

35. Library Services Platform (LSP)
• Cloud-based
• Multitenant
• Offers API/Web
Services

36. Library Services Platform (LSP)
• Cloud-based
• Multitenant
• Offers API/Web
Services
• Integrates physical
and electronic
resources
Physical Electronic

37. True Open Platform
As a true open platform,
BC Campus offers a
complete package using
• Existing java apps

38. True Open Platform
As a true open platform,
BC Campus offers a
complete package using
• Existing java apps
• New web apps

39. True Open Platform
As a true open platform,
BC Campus offers a
complete package using
• Existing java apps
• New web apps
• Integrated open source
apps

40. True Open Platform
As a true open platform,
BC Campus offers a
complete package using
• Existing java apps
• New web apps
• Integrated open source
apps
• Third-party partner apps

41. SirsiDynix & EBSCO
Strategic Partnership
The world’s most
comprehensive eJournal
content plugged into the world’s
most robust Discovery platform

42. Why Partner with EBSCO?
Size matters
EBSCO is the largest
intermediary between
publishers and content
providers. EDS includes
content from over 22,000
publishers
Metadata matters
EBSCO does more
metadata enhancement
than any other discovery
provider.
• Robust subject indexing for
precision
• Full-Text searching for
completeness
Technology
matters
• Robust and complete
API
• Superior Relevance
Ranking
• Superior Value Ranking

44. BLUEcloud Campus
Open Platform for Best-of-Breed Integration

45. BLUEcloud Campus
Campus Connection
BLUEcloud plugins for Student Information
Systems, Learning Management Systems, and
more

46. BLUEcloud Campus
Acquisitions
Integration with electronic & physical suppliers
for selection, ordering, invoicing, and payment

47. BLUEcloud Campus
Discovery
API/Web Services for third party discovery
services

48. BLUEcloud Campus
Metadata Resources
Resources for copy cataloging and database
enrichment services

49. BLUEcloud Campus
Interlibrary Loan
Discovery, Widgets, NCIP, and API/Web Services
integration for ILL & Document Delivery services

50. BLUEcloud Campus
eResources
Discovery, Acquisitions, and Knowledge Base
Integration for electronic resources

51. BLUEcloud Campus
Commerce
API/Web Services eCommerce and Retail
Purchase services for Discovery and Circulation

52. BLUEcloud Campus
Digital Archives & Institutional
Repositories
Discovery integration using OAI-PMH and
API/Web Services

53. Analytics
• Cloud based
• Auto-harvest of catalog data
• Drag & Drop analytics
• Output in multiple formats
• Subscriptions to reports
• Easy drill-down, filtering,
graphs, sorting, etc.
• Import local databases
• Includes support for tablets
and smartphones
• Import 3rd party data

54. Linked Data
• Underlying BLUEcloud
database will be
transformed to Linked Data
(BibFrame)
• SD ILS databases will remain
MARC-native
• Phase 1: BLUEcloud Visibility
• Phase 2: CloudSource

55. Discovery
BookMyne(+)
Enterprise
PAC
Portfolio
Social Library
Staff
Analytics
Acquisitions
Cataloging
Central
Circulation
MobileCirc
Serials
Marketplace
CloudSource
Community
Funded Services
eResource Central
eResource
Management
Interlibrary Loan
Lists
Visibility
BLUEcloud
Horizon Symphony

57. Discovery
BookMyne(+)
Enterprise
PAC
Portfolio
Social Library
Staff
Analytics
Acquisitions
Cataloging
Central
Circulation
MobileCirc
Serials
Connections
CloudSource
Community
Funded Services
eResource Central
eResource
Management
Interlibrary Loan
Lists
Visibility
BLUEcloud

58. eRc Vendors

60. 9,000,000+
titles available
1,000,000+
patron downloads

61. Makes your collection visible where patrons
and students are looking—the internet.
BLUEcloud Visibility

64. BLUEcloud Visibility
• 23 Customers live
• Collections of over 13 Million catalog records
• Transformed to Over 95 Million BIBFRAME resources
• If all of you were live on BC Visibility….
Over 20 Trillion BIBFRAME resources!

65. Early Impact Metrics
• 3 customers with Google Analytics data
• Approximately 300,000 patrons
• Connected 9,000 search engine users to the catalog
• 91% are new visitors to the catalog
BLUECLOUD VISIBILITY

74. And now,
Where do we go
from here?
Our connections...

75. Content
Connections
Library
Connections
Partner
Connections

76. Library
Connections

78. Partner
Connections

80. Content
Connections

82. Content
Connections

83. Content
Connections
Library
Connections
Partner
Connections

84. Web
makes these Connections possible.
APIs &
Web Services
Open.
Flexible.

85. Web
Direction of BLUEcloud.
This is the

86. Thank you.