OPAC 2 0 and Beyond!OPAC 2.0 and Beyond!…to boldly go where no library has gone before…to boldly go where no library has gone before

U i it f H dd fi ld UKUniversity of Huddersfield, UKwww.hud.ac.uk/cls

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ContentsCo te ts

• Before the OPACOPAC 1 0• OPAC 1.0

• OPAC 2.0• Beyond the OPAC

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Once uponOnce upona timea time…

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Warning!a g

The following slides may contain library pornographylibrary pornography…

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/535440373/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/2111747772/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/underpuppy/4703228/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tryingyouth/2456237/

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10http://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterlibrary/2981624987/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/2329267266/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/851933622/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathansnider/442667205/

The 1980s…e 980s

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http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/about/faq/history.shtml

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The 1990s…e 990s

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Library Hi Tech Journal, 2002

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The 21st Century…e Ce tu y

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MARC21C

• “Designed to redefine the original MARC record format for the 21st century ”record format for the 21st century…

• …and yet, the primary purpose of the complex punctuation rules in MARC21 seems to be to ensure that you can still yproduce perfect printed catalogue cards!

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What we thinkWhat we thinkour usersour users

wantwant…22

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Conspiracy Theory!Co sp acy eo y

• Why are we trying to turn our users into little mini librarians?little mini librarians?

• “Thou shalt not use yonder library until thou hast understanding of...”– Dewey Classificationy– Shelfmarks & Shelf Order– Boolean Logic and Advanced Set Theoryg y– the difference between accruing & outstanding fines

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What ourWhat our users wantusers want expectexpect…

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S. R. RanganathanS a ga at a

Five laws of library science (1931)4th Law: Save the time of the Reader4th Law: Save the time of the Reader• “…if readers find what they are

l ki f i ti llooking for in a timely mannerthey will be more satisfied, and

lik l t f l lik th imore likely to feel like theirneeds have been met.”

33ENLITE Journal, circa 1969

WithWith hindsighthindsight…

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Roy TennantLib J l 2005Library Journal, 2005

“I wish I had known that the solution for needing to teach our users how to search ourneeding to teach our users how to search our catalog was to create a system that didn't

d t b t ht I i h I h d k th tneed to be taught … I wish I had known that we would come to pay the price of our folly by seeing our users flock to commercial companies like Google and Amazon.”p g

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Does your OPAC suck?oes you O C suc

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“The OPAC Sucks” songe O C Suc s so g

The OPAC sucks, that's all I gotta say

You're outta luck if you can't spell “Hemingway”f y p g y

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The OPAC sucks a sad calamityThe OPAC sucks, a sad calamity

Like it's stuck in 8 million B.C.

The title that I seekThe title that I seek

Is buried very deep

(lyrics by Brian Smith, Chicago Librarian)

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W b 2 0Web 2.0

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Ann Arbor District Librarybo st ct b a y

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Backgroundac g ou d

• General unhappiness with vendor product“In house” enhancements to the existing• “In-house” enhancements to the existing OPAC…

ti f– user suggestions from surveys– “Web 2.0” inspired features

borrowing good ideas from other web sites– borrowing good ideas from other web sites – new features launched with no/low publicity

“perpetual beta”– perpetual beta

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Keyword cloudey o d c oud

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Borrowing suggestionso o g suggest o s

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Personalised suggestionse so a sed suggest o s

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Virtual shelf browsertua s e b o se

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OtherOtherlibrarieslibraries

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North Carolina State Universityo t Ca o a State U e s ty

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Topeka and Shawnee Countyope a a d S a ee Cou ty

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University of WarwickU e s ty o a c

Free hot video chat with a librarian?!

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Hennepin County Librarye ep Cou ty b a y

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Roy TennantLib J l 2005Library Journal, 2005

“We need to focus more energy on important systemic changes rather thanimportant, systemic changes rather than cosmetic ones. If your system is more diffi lt t h d l ff ti thdifficult to search and less effective than Amazon.com, then you have work to do.

After all, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's till h i ”still very much a pig.”

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OPAC 2.0OPAC 2.0(“Next Gen”)(“Next Gen”)

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OPAC 2.0O C 0

• Second generation web OPACsF t li t• Feature list…– relevancy ranking by default– faceted browsing / limiting– “did you mean?” spell checking– RSS feeds, OpenSearch, etc

• Marking MARC work harder!a g C o a de– importance of high quality, rich records

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OPAC 2.0O C 0

• Typical OPAC 2.0 features…user tagging (aka folksonomies)– user tagging (aka folksonomies)

– user ratingsuser reviews– user reviews

– social bookmarking optionssearch results sorted by relevancy– search results sorted by relevancy

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What’s missing from OPAC 2.0?at s ss g o O C 0

• We need more serendipity!borrowing suggestions– borrowing suggestions

– “just in time” recommendations

S i l f t• Social features– create links between borrowers

• Web services and APIs– encourage users to remix our dataencourage users to remix our data

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Commercial productsCo e c a p oducts

• AquaBrowserE Lib i P i• Ex Libris: Primo

• Innovative Interfaces: Encore• SirsiDynix: Enterprise

T li Pl tf P i 3• Talis Platform: Prism 3• DS: DSArenaS S e a

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Open Source OPACsOpe Sou ce O Cs

• Developed by libraries for libraries!S ibli– Scriblio

– VuFind– LibraryFind– fac-back-opac– Project Blacklight– The Social OPACThe Social OPAC

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Open Source LMSOpe Sou ce S

• Koha & EvergreenEvergreen is perhaps more suited to consortiums– Evergreen is perhaps more suited to consortiums

– both come with good OPACs, e.g.• Dame Alice Owen's School Herts (Koha)• Dame Alice Owen s School, Herts (Koha)• Horowhenua Library Trust, NZ (Koha)• Ovid-Elsie Area Schools, US K-12 (Evergreen), ( g )

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LibraryThing (aka LT)b a y g (a a )

• LibraryThing for Librariesadd tagging reviews recommendations etc to an– add tagging, reviews, recommendations, etc to an existing OPAC

• Libraries using LT as an LMS/OPAC• Libraries using LT as an LMS/OPAC– School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield)

f & C– National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence

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Thank you!…any questions?

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