Earlier this month I attended a Mobius conferernce session about vodcasting in libraries. I came back all inspired and fired up. I don’t think our patrons are ready for vodcasting yet but that didn’t stop me from making videos. Even better is was perfect timing for Flickr allowing 90 second videos that are much better quality than YouTube. Our reference staff has been talking about proactive reference, empowering patrons to use some of the online tools themselves. So I started making videos of how to do some basics and posted them on MRRL’s flickr account. Right now they’re getting a lot of views on Flickr, and we’re getting a wiki set up that is linked from all the OPAC pages so the videos are always available to the patrons from the online catalog Does your library have a Flickr account yet? What other video topics could you cover for your patrons? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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Reviving the OPAC: an overview of catalog overlay software products
Reviving the OPAC: an overview of catalog overlay software products by Mary Aycock & Jee Davis University of Missouri-Columbia Link: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/catalogdept/presentations/mobius2008.ppt Aquabrowser Encore Endeca Primo Next gen catalogs Catalog overlay Catalog search overlay Facets From metadata sources Authority control Possible facets: · Author · Format · Online resources · Topic · Pub date · Geographic region · Genre · Time period · Language · Series · Locatioan · New book · Availability · Source · Lc class # Other expected features Relevancy ranking Spelling alternatives Tag clouds Rss feeds Federated searching ability to contribute user generated content Integration of vendor generated enriched content Aquabrowser Word discovery panel – visual cues with color University of Chicago example Encore Works with development partners including Springfield Greene Endeca McMaster University Primo Boston College Emory University Similar products Blacklight eXtensible Scriblio Solrpac Vufind worldCat Local proprietary software vs open source users needs? What’s wrong with you current catalog? How flexible is the product in choosing facets? What are the features that the product offers How/where are the data for the facets coming from? Questions – Where would overlay happen since we’re a consortium? Audience comment – Mobius looked at it, but it’s
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