1. EXTRA! Coming catalog enhancements!! OPAL Conference 2006

3. Coming soon …. OhioLINK catalog changes:  Agency software OPAL catalog changes:  Keyword search algorithm  Spell checker  Tabbed record display

4. Agency software To be installed sometime before September 1 Affects:  OhioLINK catalog  Circulation  OPAL catalog NOT affected

5. Agency software Allows each OPAL institution to appear to be a separate institution within OhioLINK central catalog when:  Displaying holdings  Placing requests

6. Displaying holdings (BEFORE)

7. Displaying Holdings (Before)

8. Displaying Holdings (After) Requesting (mockup)

9. Displaying Holdings (After)

10. Placing Requests (Before)

11. Placing Requests (After)

12. Agency software Few other points:  Each OPAL institution will be able to have its own requesting priority within OhioLINK  Each OPAL institution will have independent circulation statistics from OhioLINK

13. Agency software Few other points:  OhioLINK catalog will not automatically select an OPAL item if one OPAL library’s patron requests an item that is held by another OPAL library  That is, the OhioLINK catalog will not prefer sister-agencies’ materials over other any other OhioLINK institutions’

14. Agency software

15. AGENCY NAMESTATS CODEINSTITUTION CODE Antioch CollegeANTCHan3bg Athenaeum of OhioATHNMat3ug Baldwin Wallace CollegeBALDWbw3bg Bluffton UniversityBLUFFbf1ug Columbus Coll Art DesignCCADco4bg Defiance CollegeDEFNCde1bg Franciscan UniversityFRANCfr2ug Heidelberg CollegeHEIDLhe1bg Lourdes CollegeLOURDlo1bg Malone CollegeMALONma2bg Mercy Coll NW OhioMCNWOme1bg Mount Carmel Coll NursingMCCNmt4bg Mount Union CollegeMTUNImu2bg Muskingum CollegeMUSKImu4bg Otterbein CollegeOTTERot4bg Tiffin UniversityTIFFNti1ug University of FindlayFINDLfi1ug Urbana UniversityURBNAur3ug Walsh UniversityWALSHwa2ug Wilberforce UniversityWILBRwb3ug Wilmington CollegeWILMGwl3bg

16. OPAL Catalog changes With Release 2006, Innovative releasing “WebPac Pro” which includes:  “improved” keyword search algorithm  “improved” single record display  optional spell-checking module Not automatically functional with upgrade; must be turned on

17. OPAL Catalog changes With the WebPac Pro implementation:  “Improved” keyword search algorithm Results are grouped by relevance into:  Most Relevant  Highly Relevant  Very Relevant  Etc.  Higher relevance assigned if keywords appear in 245 subfield a, slightly lower if in subfield b, etc.

18. Keyword search algorithm

22. OPAL Catalog changes Tabbed record display  Defaults to displaying author, title, imprint and copy information first  Other fields are hidden under other tabs labeled: More details (includes ISBN, description, etc.) Find similar items (series, subjects, added entries)

23. Tabbed record display

26. OPAL Catalog changes Spell checker  Only for keyword search  Uses a dictionary to determine misspellings  Asks “Did you mean”

27. Spell checker

29. Spell checking

30. OPAL Catalog changes Timeframe:  September 2006 -- Release 2006 upgrade -- Testing other new OPAC features  October 2006 -- Users Services Advisory Committee meeting -- Decide on new functionality  December 2006 – Implement new functionality and WebPac Pro