November 16, 2009 – 1:59 pm
nbsp;http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/430/1/OC…
The aims and objectives of this study were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there; • Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information; • List the various [...]
November 10, 2009 – 10:06 am
http://oleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/OLE_FINAL_Report1.pdf
With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment project
(OLE Project) convened a multi-national group of libraries to analyze library business processes
and to define a next-generation library technology platform. The resulting OLE platform is
predicated on Service Oriented Architecture and a community-source model of development and
governance. Over 300 libraries, educational institutions, professional organizations [...]
September 29, 2009 – 7:46 am
nbsp;http://chronicle.com/article/After-Losin…
By Marc Parry
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. So you might think that typing his name into Virgo, Virginia’s online library catalog, would start you off with a book about him.
Jean A. Bauer tried it the other night. At the top of the results list were papers from a physics conference in Brazil.
The problem [...]
August 4, 2009 – 12:14 pm
nbsp;http://oleproject.org/final-ole-project-…
The Open Library Environment (OLE) Project has posted a draft of its final report. We are excited to offer this report publicly to the community and welcomes comment. As a community-source project, your input is vital to the future and success of the OLE Project. You can access the report at this [...]
nbsp;http://www.charlestonco.com/index.php?do…
July 9, 2009 (SEATTLE) – Thomson Reuters will participate in Serials Solutions’ new Summon(TM) web-scale discovery service, allowing records from Web of Science(R) to be indexed by the service and enabling citation counts to appear in search results for subscribing customers. The Summon(TM) service is a pioneer in providing single search box access to the [...]
The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries announce that Serials Solutions, a leader in providing technology solutions for libraries, has joined the eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project — an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University’s River Campus Libraries. Serials Solutions’ involvement is both technical and financial.
The additional funding for [...]
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the first academic institutions to begin collaborating with the company as development partners for Unified Resource Management (URM), a framework for library management services. The three initial development partners include Boston College and the Princeton University Library, both in the US, and K.U.Leuven in Belgium.
The development [...]
nbsp;http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Murphy Library has released ERMes v. 2009.05, an open source electronic resource management system. Iowa State University contributed code to the project.
source: DigitalKoans
nbsp;https://urresearch.rochester.edu/retriev…
This report summarizes the objectives, methods, and major software design findings from the
data collected in the user research portion of the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project. A full analysis
and interpretation of the data is not included here and will be provided at the conclusion of the
project. This report includes edited results from the brainstorming sessions and [...]
nbsp;http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalo…
In 2008, OCLC conducted focus groups, administered a pop-up survey on WorldCat.org—OCLC’s freely available end user interface on the Web—and conducted a Web-based survey of librarians worldwide.
The Online Catalogs report presents findings from these research efforts in order to understand:
The metadata elements that are most important to end users in determining if an item will meet [...]
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