1. Connecting users to Collections Collection Development/Resource Sharing Conference March 26, 2009 Jean Phillips Florida Center for Library Automation jeanp@ufl.edu

2. Connecting users to Collections There is no one place/one tool/one starting point/one type of user The tool that best represents what we have available to our users is the catalog How are we improving the catalog? Are they using it?

3. Are they using the catalog? Mango averages over 1 million searches a month Statistics from FY2007/2008

4. How are we improving the catalog? Stealth OPACs Better User Interfaces Wider Discovery More Interactive Clearer Delivery Options

5. “Stealth Opacs” Coined by David Pattern in his blog “Self-plagiarism is style” Most important feature of nextgen catalog in 2007 survey

6. Can you find the catalog?

7. How about now?

8. Now?

9. Here?

10. http://fgcu.libguides.com/accounting_and_tax

11. Recognize the device?…

12. In the palm of your hand

13. Mango on the IPhone

14. This one is a little harder…

15. Example using one of the tools Get an email about interesting lecture on the TED website, topic is organization structures TED website

19. Better User Interfaces More like other Web interfaces Less instruction required for basic use More access points, ways to search Progressive improvement of look and feel

20. First generation online interface

21. First generation web interface

22. Vendor designed web interface

23. NextGen Catalog at NCSU

24. Mango is born Mango is FCLA created web application that uses the Endeca search engine and repository Began work in October 2006 Went live in August 2007 Still maintaining Aleph OPACs 9.1 million bibliographic records Aleph records from 11 SULs merged into one record

25. University of West Florida Catalog

26. Union Catalog in Mango

27. Better User Interfaces David Pattern’s Top 5 Priorities –Stealth OPAC –Relevance ranking –Faceted searching Special collections facets New Title facet –RSS –Did you mean Other features important to SULs –Export/save options –Guided Navigation –Text to mobiles –Permalinks

28. Aleph keyword search

29. Mango keyword search

30. Mango interactive Live connection to LMS info. in Aleph –Availability –Patron accounts/Renewals –Requests Book covers and more from Google books Citation formats from WorldCat: “Cite this” Export of citations to Refworks Text of title and call no. to cell phones Linking out to library location maps: “floor map”

31. Mango State University Libraries of Florida

32. Mango State University Libraries of Florida

33. Wider discovery: what’s in your catalog? Aleph catalog records: 16 million bibliographic records merged into 8 million Center for Research Libraries Digital collections: DLU01/Digitool/UFDC

34. Wider discovery: what could be added? More Digital Collections Wolfsonian Museum IFAS EDIS publications E-Gov Docs Open Access Digitized books (Mbooks or all Hathi Trust) Non-MARC resources

35. Delivery: How do our users "get it”? Open URLs, link resolvers (sfx and Serials solutions)

36. Delivery: electronic URLs in the metadata, for example: –Digital objects Images Full text Video/audio –Federal Government documents –Ejournals –Ebooks

38. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shir ky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.htm

39. Delivery: digital

40. Delivery: map Go to the shelves (location mapping)

41. Delivery: map

42. Delivery: requests

43. Delivery: ILL InterLibrary loan requests

44. Delivery: Future Uborrow –Unmediated borrowing –1st Phase returnables within SULs –Aleph ILL or ILLiad –later phases expand to CCLA colleges and beyond articles

46. Continuous improvement SUL OPAC subcommittee development list Articles – in process Ideas to be prioritized –Social tagging –Recommender –Reviews –Integrated course reserves –Subject oriented interfaces –More data sources –Cross references from Authority records

47. Future of interfaces? Sixth sense project at MIT –“Wearable gestural interface” –http://www.pranavmistry.com/project s/sixthsense/#PICTUREShttp://www.pranavmistry.com/project s/sixthsense/#PICTURES –Ultimate mobile device

48. Future of interfaces?