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Connecting users to CollectionsCollection Development/Resource Sharing Conference
March 26, 2009Jean Phillips
Florida Center for Library Automationjeanp@ufl.edu
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?
Are they using the catalog?
• Mango averages over 1 million searches a month
• Statistics from FY2007/2008
How are we improving the catalog?
• Stealth OPACs• Better User Interfaces• Wider Discovery• More Interactive• Clearer Delivery Options
“Stealth Opacs”• Coined by David Pattern in his blog “Self-plagiarism is style”• Most important feature of nextgen catalog in 2007 survey
Example using one of the tools• Get an email about interesting lecture on the
TED website, topic is organization structures
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
Mango is born• Mango is FCLA created web application that
uses the Endeca search engine and repository• Began work in October 2006• Went live in August 2007• Still maintaining Aleph OPACs• 9.1 million bibliographic records• Aleph records from 11 SULs merged into one
record
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
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”
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/UFDC
Wider discovery: what could be added?
• More Digital Collections• Wolfsonian Museum• IFAS EDIS publications• E-Gov Docs • Open Access Digitized books (Mbooks or all
Hathi Trust)• Non-MARC resources
Delivery: electronic• URLs in the metadata, for example:
– Digital objects• Images• Full text• Video/audio
– Federal Government documents– Ejournals– Ebooks
Delivery: Future• Uborrow
– Unmediated borrowing– 1st Phase returnables within SULs – Aleph ILL or ILLiad– later phases
• expand to CCLA colleges and beyond • articles
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
Future of interfaces?
• Sixth sense project at MIT– “Wearable gestural interface”– http://www.pranavmistry.com/project
s/sixthsense/#PICTURES– Ultimate mobile device
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