Seeking Details About Mystery Discovery Layer Company
There is a message floating around the net with a link to a survey about "a completely new online resource discovery service." There is no identifying infor...
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Video Tour of OPAC Discovery Layer Tools
In March, I gave a presentation at the NISO forum on Next Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards. For those that were there, you may remembe...
A Catalog for the “Next Generation” or the Current Generation?
Are we building the "next generation" catalog for us (librarians) or our users? As a read a report from the Next Generation Summit Search Interface Working ...
Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements
Below are the supplemental links for the presentation at the NISO workshop on discovery layers in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 28, 2008. Update 20080404T1124 : ...
NISO Workshop Exploring the Discovery Layer; March 27-28, 2008; Chapel Hill, NC
NISO is conducting a workshop later this month called Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards. The workshop is described this way: "Discoveri...
Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC
Schemes to add functionality to the web OPAC fall into four categories: web OPAC enhancements, web OPAC wrappers, web OPAC replacements, and integrated libr...
Solr-ized MARC Record Catalog
Rob Casson of Miami University announced this weekend the beta availability of their video catalog. In a subsequent posting, Rob describes the user interfac...
Services in a Service Oriented Architecture
This post is the second in a series about the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system design pattern to library services. The first po...
A Known Citation Discovery Tool in a Library2.0 World
When it comes to seeking a full-text copy of that known-item citation, are our users asking "what have you done for me lately?" OpenURL has taken us pretty ...
Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions
What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the l...
It’s All About User Services: A Summary and Commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting
What follows is a summary and commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting at ALA annual conference in New Orleans on 25-Jun-2006. What I've tried t...
“Is the Writing On The Wall?” — Take 2
Walt Crawford chided me — rightly so — for yesterday's Is the Writing on the Wall for the Integrated Library System? post. My choice of language...
Is the Writing on the Wall for the Integrated Library System?
While in UNC-CH for JCDL I've had occasion to rant with/at some people about the state of the integrated library system marketplace — including, of cou...