Lastige materie: de toekomst van bibliotheekcatalogi
Afgelopen maandag was ik aanwezig bij een bijeenkomst over de toekomst van kunst- en museumbibliotheken. Die bijeenkomst werd georganiseerd door Ingressus, op verzoek van het Overleg Kunst(historische) Bibliotheken Nederland (OKBN)Ingressus nodigde mij uit omdat ik digitale vernieuwing een warm hart toedraag, niet omdat ik veel weet van kunstbibliotheken. Dat ik op voorhand niet veel wist van dergelijke bibliotheken maakte dat ik die ochtend het nodige leerde, met name van Anita Vriend, die werkzaam is in de bibliotheek van het Van Gogh Museum.Tijdens de bijeenkomst werd er ook discussie gevoerd over de toekomst van biblio...
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Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek - April 24, 2009 Tags: toekomst bibliotheekcatalogi kunstbibliotheken Paradise Lost Kurt de Belder David Weinberger OKBN Ingressus catalogus bibliotheken webOPAC museumbibliotheken
De bibliotheeksite van de toekomst
Gisteren was ik aanwezig bij een 'lunchbijeenkomst' over de strategie van de Zeeuwse Bibliotheek voor de periode 2009-2012. Ik leverde een korte bijdrage, met als belangrijkste punten:De steeds korter wordende aandachtsspanne van mensenHet niet kunnen 'winnen' van commerciële partijen als Google en het 'vaak achter de feiten aanlopen' van bibliothekenHet loslaten van het idee dat we met de huidige zoeksystemen ons publiek een goede dienst bewijzenCollecties onder de aandacht brengen door verhalen te vertellen en onze menselijke kant te tonenOm het verhaal te ondersteunen deelde ik de Trend Blend 2009 uit, alsmede een groo...
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Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek - March 3, 2009 Tags: databanken websites bibliotheken Steven Bell aandachtsspanne informatiegedrag Trend Blend 2009 toekomst websites bibliotheken
Your Opac Sucks, part n: users make end runs around your resource portal
If you go back far enough in time you start to hear a chorus of complaints about library web sites. I won't repeat them all now, but I will bring to your attention the latest salvo against library web design, this one from Inside Higher Ed entitled The Library Web Site of the Future from Steven J. Bell.According to the Ithaka report, academic librarians rated the function of the library as a gateway for locating scholarly information as “very important.” Asked to assess the performance of libraries as their portals to scholarly information, however, faculty in all disciplines rated them considerably differently. Comp...
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Superpatron - Friends of the Library, for the net - February 26, 2009 Author: Edward
JISC Developer Happiness Days (dev8D)
For my sins, I'm going to be facilitating the OPAC Community Meeting at the JISC Developer Happiness Days event in London next week.
Although we've got "OPAC" in the name, I think the session should include anything to do with library catalogues, library usage data, MARC records, federated search engines, revelancy ranking, facets, etc
We'd like to kick the session of with several "Minute Madness" talks. If you're considering coming along to the session, and you meet any of the following criteria, please add your name to wiki!
you've done something cool with your OPAC
you'...
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"Self-plagiarism is style" - February 4, 2009 Author: Dave Pattern Tags: misc
NASIG 2008: Next Generation Library Automation - Its Impact on the Serials Community
Speaker: Marshall Breeding
Check & update your library’s record on lib-web-cats — Breeding uses this data to track the ILS and ERMS systems used by libraries world-wide.
The automation industry is consolidating, with several library products dropped or ceased to be supported. External financial investors are increasingly controlling the direction of the industry. And, the OPAC sucks. Libraries and users are continually frustrated with the products they are forced to use and are turning to open source solutions.
The innovation presented by automation companies falls below the expectations of libraries (not s...
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eclectic librarian - June 6, 2008 Author: Anna Tags: library nasig2008
TLA 2008 Conference Notes, Day 3: General Session II
The session, once they were done with the usual adminstrative stuff, was a panel on the topic of "Transforming Libraries."Moderator: Roy Tennant (OCLC)Speakers: Stephen Abram (SirsiDynix), Joseph Janes (University of Washington, I-School faculty), Karen Schneider (College Center for Automation, consultant, Tallahassee, Florida).(This was one of the highlights of the conference for me. It left me with a lot to think about, and I took a lot of notes. Since it was a debate, there is no handout, so I hope my small set of notes catches at least a small part of their thinking; this was very much in a rapid-fire style, so not eas...
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The Gypsy Librarian - April 28, 2008 Author: Angel, librarian and educator
CIL2008: WoePac to WowPac
Karen Schneider moderated this very interesting two part session on WoePac to WowPac - a look at OPACs as we know them and would like them to be. As a librarian who has often torn her hair out over the sad state - “or should I say sucky state” of our OPACs she’s the perfect person to be introducing the speakers for this session.
First off, Roy Tennant. Roy started off by saying “I’ve spent the last 10 years trying to kill off the the word OPAC - you can see how successful I’ve been.”
Roy wanted to clarify for us that when he talked about the “OPAC” he’s just talki...
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What I Learned Today... - April 14, 2008 Author: Nicole Tags: CIL2008 ILS OPAC cil08
CiL 2008: Catalog Effectiveness
Speaker: Rebekah Kilzer
The Ohio State University Libraries have used Google Analytics for assessing the use of the OPAC. It’s free for sites up to five million page views per month — OSU has 1-2 million page views per month. Libraries would want to use this because most integrated library systems offer little in the way of use statistics, and what they do have isn’t very… useful. You will need to add some code that will display on all OPAC pages.
Getting details about how users interact with your catalog can help with making decisions about enhancements. For example, knowing how many dial-up users ...
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eclectic librarian - April 8, 2008 Author: Anna Tags: library cil2008
CiL 2008: Woepac to Wowpac
Moderator: Karen G. Schneider - “You’re going to go un-suck your OPACs, right?”
Speaker: Roy Tennant
Tennant spent the last ten years trying to kill off the term OPAC.
The ILS is your back end system, which is different from the discovery system (doesn’t replace the ILS). Both of these systems can be locally configured or hosted elsewhere. Worldcat Local is a particular kind of discovery system that Tenant will talk about if he has time.
Traditionally, users would search the ILS to locate items, but now the discovery system will search the ILS and other sources and present it to the user in a less ...
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eclectic librarian - April 8, 2008 Author: Anna Tags: library cil2008
20080320 SOLINET: Bibliophiles and Social Networking Mashup
Kate Sheehan
the OPAC sucks
showed LibraryThing
Kate stalked Tim Spaulding in order to be the first beta tester of LibraryThing for Libraries
LfL takes all of the warm, fuzzy, reader-generated information about books and puts it into your catalog
showed a record with MARC info above and LfL info below on the screen
showed tag cloud
you end up clicking around from book to book in LibraryThing thinking “I want to read this, this, this, this, this”
when do people ever just hang out in your catalog?
LfL is great for reader’s advisory
showed the code side of it - it’s just 3 lines!
monkeys could do this ...
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The Shifted Librarian - March 20, 2008 Author: jenny Tags: precat
Uncontrolled Vocabulary, the Carnival, and the LC Working Group; or, the recognition of frustration
Back in December, a few days before the deadline passed for comments on the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, I wrote a post called just that.
In it I expressed much frustration; with both the big picture issues facing bibliographic control and those of my daily frustration in trying to use the tools my profession supplies me to do so.
I was popping off in that post. Clearly. Heck, I even tossed out an f-bomb. I was (am) mad.
Well, thanks to Anna Creech (or so I believe. By the way, thanks, Anna!) that post showed up both on Uncontrolled Vocabulary #24 [revisited momentarily in #25] ...
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Off the Mark - January 25, 2008 Author: Mark Tags: Work Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Carnival of the Infosciences Classification Cataloging Librariana
Informatie 2007 - Dag 2
Vandaag zetel ik in het top-technologie-trends-panel op Informatie 2007 en doe aan live bloggen.
het is nu de avond ervoor en ik zal deze post morgen publiceren
Ik denk dat we met ons vijven wel een mooie verzameling van tien trends bij elkaar hebben gesprokkeld:
1. Draadloos netwerk in de bibliotheek
2. De attenderingsservice van I-City PBL
3. Blogs
4. Online communities
5. Del.icio.us new world: social bookmarking in de HOB
6. Goochelen met Google Books
7. OPAC sucks
8. Mashups
9. LibraryThing
10. The slow library movement
Die laatste vind ik een goede afsluiter. Ik had er tot voor kort nog niet van gehoord en het begrip...
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Commissaresse 2.0 - September 14, 2007 Author: de Commissaresse Tags: infiltratie
Your Opac and the Suck Factor
Note: over on Techsource, I wrote about open source OPACs this month — worth reading if you’re thinking about OPACs and such. Also see Marshall Breeding’s Library Technology Reports on Next-Generation Library Catalogs.
A week from Friday, I’m giving a talk in Illinois called “The OPAC sucks” at at the Symposium on the Future of Integrated Library Systems (yes, I’m getting a little tired of the “suck” meme, but it’s my fault for starting it).
I’d like your input.
Last year I discussed some of problems with OPACs in a three-part series for Techsource, in which...
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Free Range Librarian - September 5, 2007 Author: K.G. Schneider Tags: Hot Tech
The Next Generation [INSERT WORD HERE] Trend
All the talk about top library technology trends gets a geek thinking. Oh sure, there are the easy ones like the iPhone changing everything and more libraries embracing alternate worlds like Second Life, but what comes next? More importantly, what comes next when we look beyond the technology itself? Instead of focusing on tools like stone axes that we must master to sustain life, we are talking about tools that enhance and enrich communication. Or rather, we should be talking about communication that can be enhanced and enriched by new tools. Therefore, the next big trend in our use of technologies is probably going to be...
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Infomancy - June 19, 2007 Author: Christopher Harris Tags: futures infomancy
The Next Generation [INSERT WORD HERE] Trend
All the talk about top library technology trends gets a geek thinking. Oh sure, there are the easy ones like the iPhone changing everything and more libraries embracing alternate worlds like Second Life, but what comes next? More importantly, what comes next when we look beyond the technology itself? Instead of focusing on tools like stone axes that we must master to sustain life, we are talking about tools that enhance and enrich communication. Or rather, we should be talking about communication that can be enhanced and enriched by new tools. Therefore, the next big trend in our use of technologies is probably going to be...
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Infomancy - June 19, 2007 Author: Christopher Harris
Opac and ILS
So pretty much everyone is convinced that their OPAC sucks. With the exception of the GA system, is there anyone out there actively trying to switch to Open Source?
I admit, I desperately want to give it a go, but it’s the backend stuff that gives me pause. I would be curious if others out there are tinkering, behind the scenes, out of sight. If so, let me know…
Library Issues, library2.0, OPACShare This
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Pattern Recognition - May 21, 2007 Author: Jason Griffey Tags: Library Issues library2.0 OPAC library-issues
People Are Doin’ It For Themselves
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Looks like I’m not the only one. Maybe it’s a (dare I use the word?) zeitgeist thing*.
On the very same day, Skagirlie laments that her OPAC sucks because it doesn’t do what Amazon, iTunes and LibraryThing do and Libraryman wonders why libraries don’t do what Pandora does. In the comments of her post, Maire says, “It’s just a bummer that a 3rd party has to offer something that should be intuitive.” I absolutely agree, it’s a bummer. Heck, I think it’s even worse than that.
On YouTube, people can upload and share their own vi...
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the goblin in the library - February 27, 2007 Author: josh Tags: libraries library 2.0 library users
Intermediate/Advanced LibWorm-Fu (Power Searching)
We’ll start with the radio buttons, then move on to search operators that LibWorm understands.
RADIO BUTTONS
There are three radio buttons beneath LibWorm’s search field, any words, all words, and exact phrase.
any words
By default, any words is selected when you first load the main page of LibWorm in your web browser. Having this radio button selected tells LibWorm that your search results must contain at least one of the words you’re searching for. With the search below, you’re telling LibWorm you’d like to see results that contain either OPAC or sucks.
all words
The all words radio butto...
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davidrothman.net - February 15, 2007 Author: David Rothman Tags: Technology Search How to LibWorm
zum Wochenende
Und jetzt alle:
the OPAC sucks, that’s all i gotta say
you’re outta luck if you can’t spell “Hemingway”
i’m getting bad results
don’t act like it’s my fault
Der Rest des Textes findet sich hier.
“The OPAC sucks”, präsentiert von den famosen anAACRonisms:
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netbib weblog - February 9, 2007 Author: ES Tags: Fun Bibliothek20
Get your head out of your Opac
So stipulated: Library OPACS, uh, lack the functionality we desire. We're all agreed. OPACS should be much, much better.Here's my question: How does the quality of the OPAC ultimately affect the total quality of customer experience and customer satisfaction? I think the answer to that question may be quite different from library to library, depending on the needs of our different user populations. Public library users may be more inclined to be browsers, and may not really care that much about how good the OPAC is. Academic, school and special library users may be more inclined to search for specific titles,...
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Library Garden - January 11, 2007 Author: Peter Bromberg Tags: OPAC Library as Place Customer Experience libraries
Me-too-isms, Social Movements and Libraries
One of my favorite Monty Python skits is the one where German and Greek philosophers are pitted against each other in a soccer match. They all line up for the competition, yet when the whistle blows, instead of kicking the ball they engage in a “philosopher pose” making for a hilarious, yet definitively inactive sports match.
What I take from this satire is that values that may appear wholesome and good in one piece of space and time, looks absolutely ridiculous in another.
In my view, this is the subtext underlying the discussion at Information Wants to Be Free , Tinfoil + Raccoon and other places.
To quote...
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The Other Librarian - January 10, 2007 Author: Ryan Deschamps Tags: rants Trends GTD Ethics Change Management Blog Evaluation
But Still It Sucks
I was doing fine with Meredith Farkas' post last week about grotty library interiors et al., a post revisting a number of observations and ideas that I largely agree with on many levels. But yesterday's post caught me short with this:
"I created the title of last week’s post (”It’s Not Just the OPAC that sucks”) because I was feeling like I would bang my head against the wall if I saw one more person write about OPACs sucking. OK! We get it! Now what? It’s great to see people criticizing things and coming up with new ideas (and there were some terrific posts on the woeful state of the OPAC). But then the groupth...
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Free Range Librarian - January 9, 2007 Author: kgs@bluehighways.com Tags: This and That
Introducing: FISH
Are you satisfied with your OPAC? In all likelihood, the answer is no. Actually, the answer will porbably always be no. You can probably provide me with even more examples of how the OPAC sucks especially well in your library, but instead let’s engage in some root cause analysis.
Given: OPACs Suck
But why? I would not be alone in noticing that by their very definition, OPACs no longer meet our needs. They were designed and named for an era of computing that has come and gone.
Online - because until then electronic catalogs had been offline with terminal access only.
Public Access - as opposed to private universit...
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Infomancy - January 4, 2007 Author: Christopher Harris Tags: infomancy SL2.0 search g33k5p34k
Introducing: FISH
Are you satisfied with your OPAC? In all likelihood, the answer is no. Actually, the answer will porbably always be no. You can probably provide me with even more examples of how the OPAC sucks especially well in your library, but instead let’s engage in some root cause analysis.
Given: OPACs Suck
But why? I would not be alone in noticing that by their very definition, OPACs no longer meet our needs. They were designed and named for an era of computing that has come and gone.
Online - because until then electronic catalogs had been offline with terminal access only.
Public Access - as opposed to private universit...
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Infomancy - January 4, 2007 Author: Christopher Harris Tags: infomancy SL2.0 search g33k5p34k
Why Go Slow?
Thanks to folks like Jessamyn, the Slow Library idea belonging to Mark Leggott has had some buzz as of late. So has this blog. I had the highest traffic I ever had by far Yesterday. Not that I’m in this for the web traffic, but when noticed, I take notice.
In the earlier post, Jenny Levine made some very good comments. If I can summarize, I think she was defending the enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by the biblioblogosphere. For instance, she says:
Also, I personally don’t believe that showing Ann Arbor’s or Hennepin County’s fine work scolds libraries to “keep up.” Does showing Hennepin’s former catalogi...
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The Other Librarian - December 30, 2006 Author: Ryan Deschamps Tags: Trends GTD e-learning Change Management Heroes
The Opac Sucks
Lluís Agustí me pasa el siguiente video musical (por llamarlo de alguna manera), publicado ya en The Laughing Librarian:
Copio la letra:
The OPAC sucks
Recorded by: the anAACRonisms
the OPAC sucks, that’s all i gotta say
you’re outta luck if you can’t spell “Hemingway”
i’m getting bad results
don’t act like it’s my fault
the OPAC sucks, a sad calamity
like it’s stuck in 8 million b.c.
the title that i seek
is buried very deep
the OPAC sucks so bad that it’s a crime
the law is broken: “save the reader’s time”
what does it want from me?
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Catorze.blog - December 5, 2006 Author: Javier Tags: Curiosidades
Could this blog be your next Opac?
…well, not LINT…but the blogging software that runs it, Wordpress.
Casey Bisson, from Plymouth State Universty Library, has just received the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his WPOPAC, which uses Wordpress software to run the OPAC. You can see it in action here. Search to find your item, which displays as a post on which you can comment.
The “My OPAC sucks” movement took off in a big way, after Karen Schneider’s two articles here and here, at ALATechsource.
Libraries buy ILSs that do accounting, acquisitons and circulation very well. Uncluttered screens and very few keystroke...
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librariesinteract.info - December 4, 2006 Author: Kathryn Greenhill Tags: International All sectors Useful resources Blogs Library2.0
The Opac Sucks
A YouTube video recorded by the anAACRonisms with lyrics by Brian Smith. Via The Laughing Librarian....
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Tom Keays :: Blog - December 4, 2006 Author: http://tomkeays.com/contact/
Opac Sucks video
If you haven't seen Laughing Librarian Brian Smith's OPAC sucks video yet, check it out for a giggle (or three). Lyrics can be found here.
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LibrarianInBlack - November 30, 2006
links for 2006-11-29
The Laughing Librarian - the OPAC sucks
chanson “The OPAC sucks”.
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/home/nicomo/pro/notes - November 29, 2006 Author: nicolas.morin Tags: del.icio.us
