Category Archives: ILMS

OLE Teleconference – Australia

April 15, 2009 – 10:36 am

The National Library of Australia will host a teleconference for those in the Australasian region interested in an update on progress with the OLE Project. 
 
Contact: Carmel McInerny, National Library of Australia  cmcinerny at nla.gov.au
+61 2 6262 1129
You may view the latest post at
 http://oleproject.org/2009/04/13/ole-tel…

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NISO Announces Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE)Protocol as a Draft Standard for Trial Use

April 7, 2009 – 8:34 am

nbsp;http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_ke…
Participants Needed to Implement and Provide Feedback on the CORE Standard That Exchanges Financial Information Between Library Systems

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Bowker OPAC survey

March 5, 2009 – 6:40 am

Dear Information Professional,
Apologies if you have already completed the Bowker Opac survey, but if not, please take 5 minutes to contribute your views on your library’s Opac so we can all gain an nationwide insight later on this year when the results are published in the Gazette.
The survey closes on Friday March 20th, [...]

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‘Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine’ by Wendy Grossman

January 27, 2009 – 2:41 pm

nbsp;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/200…
Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case
Wendy M Grossman The Guardian, Thursday 22 January 2009

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Supporting the eXtensible Catalog through Metadata Design and Services

January 12, 2009 – 7:13 am

nbsp;https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/…
The eXtensible Catalog (XC) is a unique set of software toolkits for libraries that is not directly comparable to either a traditional Integrated Library System (ILS) or a “next-generation” discovery interface. XC will go well beyond providing a discovery layer to also provide a metadata infrastructure for enriching and transforming metadata to make it usable [...]

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DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Group (ILS-DI) Technical Recommendation

January 8, 2009 – 7:45 am

nbsp;http://project.library.upenn.edu/conflue…
An API for effective interoperation between
integrated library systems and external discovery
applications
June 4, 2008

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Examples of Possible Next Generation Catalogs

January 8, 2009 – 7:41 am

nbsp;http://futurelib.pbwiki.com/Examples
Single Library Catalogs
North Carolina State University Library Catalog
E41ST
fac-back-opac from Dan Scott at Laurentian University, try it out here
Aquabrowser at Queens Library
Lamson Library
Lexington Public Library Catalogue Aquabrowser
UCLA Film & Television Archive catalog
Hennepin County Library’s Bookspace
Danbury Public Library integrates “Other editions and translations,” “Tags,” and “Similar Books” from Library Thing. Here’s a link to a sample record: [...]

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Comprehensive Knowledge Archive NetworkBeta

January 7, 2009 – 8:41 am

nbsp;http://ckan.net/package/read/hud-library…
latest additions include
Package: hud-library-usagedata
Metadata:
Title: University of Huddersfield — Circulation and Recommendation Data
Url: http://library.hud.ac.uk/data/usagedata/…
Download Url: http://library.hud.ac.uk/data/usagedata/
Tags: bibliographic library circulation format-xml
Licenses: OKD Compliant::Other
Notes:
About
Circulation and Recommendation data from the University of Huddersfield Library. Data is comprised of two parts:
1. Circulation Data. This breaks down the loans by year, by academic school, and by individual academic courses. This data will [...]

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