Online Catalogue (+ Browser) Redesign.

Course on Interactive MediaStudent : Fazal Thanveer VGuide : Rupesh Vyas

THE FIELD OF STUDY

Where will the catalogue be situated andwhat function it will fulfill?

WHERE ? WHAT ?

The catalogue will be in the internet allowing access from anywhere. The use will be more concentrated in KMC, studios in the institute, hostels and other places in the institute. It will be used by members of the other collaberated libraries and institutes as well.

• A device to search for documents in the data base of KMC. - books, magazines, e-books, newspapers, audio video cd’s, cd roms, etc. ie, become a very friendly usable link between the wast collection of knowledge in the KMC and us.

• A platform to share e-books and a bank for the same.

• A platform to get updates on the activities in the institute

WHAT ALREADY EXISTS?

Replacing old catalogue which had a lot of disfunc-tionalities, even in getting opened, a new web based catalogue has been installed since last year which has made locating books in the KMC much easier and from anywhere. Even though satisfactory to an extend in just locating a document, the interface is not much user friendly.

• the hierarchy of information provided is not clear• if the search term doesn’t match exactly with en-

tries in the data base, no results will be shown up.• very less number of documents is shown under a

particular tag due to no facility for personal tag-ging.

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Recent Additions

New Books List

Serial Collections

NewspapersPeriodicals

Reference & Special Collections

MapsVideosAudioDocuments

Top News Stories

Wall Street JournalNew York TimesTime MagazineRolling StoneNewsweekIRS Documents

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About the Knowledge Management Centre (KMC)

The Knowledge Management Centre (KMC) operates under the aegis of the KnowledgeManagement and Information Services (KM&IS) at NID, is considered as a backbone of anyacademic and research institute, is a new age format of a multifaceted approach to managingvarious human, print, digital and other resources, all in a seamlessly integrated manner. At theKMC we have all the treasured wealth of knowledge showcasing the best collection of books,periodicals and other non book resources from all corners of the world. Apart from this, theCentre has a large collection of student diploma projects, craft documentations, research andother professional project documents. The KMC has also attached to it, showcases with designprototypes and other collections.

The collective strength of all resources at the KMC is aimed at giving the Centre the power toprovide services under one roof with online facilities to students, faculty and researchers,institutions, corporate bodies and industry.

General Rules

STUDY OF THE EXISTINGINTERFACE

STUDY OF THE EXISTINGINTERFACE

• Needs to be much simpler to avoid the clutter

• has to have clear hierarchy on the basis of the im-portance of information . Example- the call number and book title should be more emphasized as they are the main things one will look for.

• can use accordion menus to reduce clutter.

STUDY OF OTHER PARALLEL SERVICES.

the layout and function of some other parallel approach-es in the net were studied.

“Contemporary cultures are saturated with displays of communication, in the form of advertisements, information graphics, site specific visual identities and images related to entertainment or deco-ration. If a piece of graphic communica-tion is to be displayed in this arena, the designer needs to be aware of how it relates to competing messages, and how the problem of image saturation or in-formation overload might be resolved in order to communicate effectively”

Noble, lanvisual research: an introduction to research methodologies in graphic design

amazon

google books

scribd

googlebritish library

THE PROJECT FOCUS

What will be the specific context and func-tion of the catalogue within the wider field of study ie, the institute and the community of students+ researchers+ teachers.

• a key to the rich collection of knowledge in the KMC• an aid to use them more effectively• a conection between person and library

online catalogue

easy access to docu-ments- help make the search more focused.

book covers, book suggestions, tagging

e-book bank, news paper room,activity update

• Autofill / Autocomplete

Easy Search

Many times most of don’t remember the exact spelling of the search term we are using. Especially when it is author name or booktitle.Theautofilloptionhelpsyouinthequerybyprovid-ing you with a list of probable search terms.

• Quick where, what

what kind of journal you want?

what basis you want to search?

• More focused

possible options with similar spelling to make sure about the correct search term.

ONE BOOK

Book covers work as images to rep-resent the book and makes the de-sign more lively

• Cover

Tags can be added by readers ( valid-ity will be monitored ). Seeing the tags, readers will be able to know what the book is about and about other books which deals with similar issues as in the book he is looking at.

• Tags

• Suggestions

Books which have connection to the book one has selected will be listed out. The connection can be on dif-ferent basis like genre, author, sub-ject etc.

• Reviews

Readers can read reviews by other writers and readers and also publish their own reviews.