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If you were planning to attend a presentation on the topic of implementing a search application on an OPAC, what would you like to know?
I’m presenting about our Endeca implementation at Access this week and I’m in the throes of presentation prep at the moment. I think I’ve got most of the good stuff covered [...]
A few weeks ago, we quietly launched our new & improved Endeca-powered catalogue. So quietly, in fact, that I haven’t even blogged about it yet. If you haven’t had a look yet, go now. I’ll wait.
Nice, isn’t it? It’s an interface that we’re pretty proud of (I’m on the UI group) and there’s quite a [...]
For the Evergreen developers: What are you doing with your acquisitions module?
- will do focus groups again to ask what works, what doesn’t, what do you like about systems you’ve used, what don’t you like, etc.
Mellon grants to help with these developments - are the Evergreen folks aware of this?
- one thing that Mellon is [...]
Welcoming the Prodigal Child: E-Resources and the OPAC, Alan Darnell, Scholars Portal Project
Scholars Portal
- repatriation of e-journal literature from publishers
- collection of 7500 journals and 10 million full-text articles
- local load of 130 abstracts and index databases representing over 150 million records
- interest in extending this model to ebooks
Why bother?
- archiving
- ease of access: single [...]
Evergreen: The ILS is Open and Everyone is Invited!
(Brad LaJeunesse, Linux Systems Administrator, Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES) Consortium; Mike Rylander, Development Consultant, PINES Consortium; David Singleton - Deputy State Librarian Georgia; Julie Walker, Program Director, PINES Consortium)
Overview of PINES
- 44 public library systems
- 252 member libraries
- 123 counties
- over 8 [...]
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