1. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 The Future of the Catalog Michael Boock

2. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 What I’ll Cover Is there a future for the catalog? What are other library resource search and discovery options? Short-term changes Long-term changes Look at sample of OPACs

3. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 Is There a Future for the OPAC? What do they contain? -Books! (and DVDs and videos and serials and microforms and … -Articles - No -Web resources – well, kind of -Images - No -Digital collections – maybe, some -Isn’t it really just the card catalog, digitized

4. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 Other Search and Discovery Options - Google Scholar -Federated search/Metasearch tools -Consortial Catalog -Open WorldCat -Local WorldCat

5. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 Short term changes –Better relevance ranking –Faceted browsing –Recommendations - people who borrowed this, also borrowed –Did you mean?/spell check and automatic correction stemming –Sorting - by popularity, librarian and user recommendations, ratings, currently available, locally available –Search visualization- Aquabrowser, Grokker –What else?

6. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 Longer Term Changes Metasearch Network search, retrieval and fulfilment Not Just a Catalog, but a Tool Open standards – xml, oai, openurl, sru/w, open search Open api

7. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 So, what are we gonna do about it? Implement short-term recommendations as quickly as possible Give the catalog as much attention as it deserves Find out what users need and incorporate quickly Be agile Ask vendors for what you need Ask for open API, open standards

8. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 Let’s Look Around

9. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 References Lorcan Demspey, Lifting out the catalog discovery experience. http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001021.html http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001021.html Lorcan Dempsey, The Library Catalog in the Discovery Environment. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/dempsey/ http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/dempsey/ Andrea Mercado, Not Your Dad’s Search Interface. http://plablog.org/2007/01/not-your-dads-interface.html http://plablog.org/2007/01/not-your-dads-interface.html Terry Reese, Can the Open Source Community Help the ILS Matter. http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/417 http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/417 Karen Coyle, Users and Uses, New Services. http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2007/03/users-and-uses-new- services.html

10. Michael Boock, OLA 2007, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4589 References Karen Schneider, How OPACs Suck. http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/how-opacs-suck-part-1- relevance-rank-or-the-lack-of-it.html http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/how-opacs-suck-part-1- relevance-rank-or-the-lack-of-it.html Karen Schneider, How OPACs Suck, Part 2: The Checklist of Shame. http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/04/how-opacs- suck-part-2-the-checklist-of-shame.htmlhttp://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/04/how-opacs- suck-part-2-the-checklist-of-shame.html Karen Schneider, How OPACs Suck, Part 3: The Big Picture. http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/05/how-opacs-suck-part-3- the-big-picture.html The OPAC Sucks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJD-safYEb0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJD-safYEb0 Eric Morgan, A “next generation” catalog. http://www.library.nd.edu/daiad/morgan/musings/ngc/ http://www.library.nd.edu/daiad/morgan/musings/ngc/