1. NextGen Acquisitions Systems: Seeking A Paradigm Shift for a New Era Kelly Smith EKU Libraries November 6, 2009 Charleston Conference

2. ILS  Acquisitions  Serials check-in  Circulation The ILS Today Goal 1: Inventory (really??) IR  Hosted ?  Locally generated? Special Collections  Finding guides & lists Others… Journal A-Z List  Hosted?  Locally generated?  Usually just “e” Databases A-Z List  Hosted?  Locally generated? +

3. Goal 2: Discovery (sort of)  Cataloging /Classification  The OPAC The ILS Today + “Discovery Tools”  More $ Federated Search  More $ OpenURL Link Resolver  More $ Subject Guides  More $ Search boxes embedded in library websites Numerous vendor platforms Open Web Other…

4. Characteristics  Local “siloed” DB  Lack of interoperability (with campus accounting systems, other vendor products, etc.)  Static catalog - works better for “owned” vs. “accessed”  Labor intensive  Duplication of effort in multiple interfaces The ILS Today

5. Inventory

6. Cornell Library Technical Services http://lts.library.cornell.edu/

7. Cornell Library Technical Services http://lts.library.cornell.edu/

8. Cornell Library Technical Services http://lts.library.cornell.edu/

9. Master Record Changes: Libraries worldwide that own item: 1746 Local Record Changes: ? Local Records updated after master records changed?? Current Library Acquisitions & Cataloging Model

10. Model for a “NextGen” ILS

11. http://semanticstudios.com/nasig.pdf Discovery

12. Changing Needs

13. http://www.ltls.org/ilssymposium2007/presentations/GeorgeNeedham-rev.ppt Changing Needs

14. Traditional ILS keyword search for “library history”… http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/webvoy.htm

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/exlibris/2383688387/ Traditional ILS catalog display (Voyager)…

16. “Discovery tool” catalog keyword search for “library history”…

18. http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html “The perfect search engine…understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.“ Google co- founder Larry Page

19. The ‘Google Effect’ at JSTOR http://tinyurl.com/n29cu2

20. 2% start search at library website 89% start search at web From 2005 OCLC Study: "Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources“ www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm

21. Google Book Search keyword search for “library history”…

22. Going to the user

25. Embracing Webscale Environments