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VuFind as a discovery option Discovery Tools for Health Libraries Lucy Vaux-Harvey – Customer Services Consultant Keith Shell – Business Development Manager Nick Dimant – Managing Director
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PTFS Europe Formed in 2007 Focus on library technologies and innovation User base right across Europe Currently growing at 35% p.a. Expertise in open source software Also promote our own products
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PTFS Europe Products: Koha library management system Rebus:list resource management Explorit RT: Request Tracker VuFind resource discovery VuFind resource discovery WordPress for libraries Evergreen library management system ArchivalWare digital archive CUFTS ERM Rebus:tutorial
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Customers in the Health Sector
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Health sector customers BASE library consortium ( 23 NHS libraries throughout Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country) Better Value Health Care CAMLIS Coventry and Warwickshire NHS: (University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust) Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Department of Health Dyslexia Action Herefordshire Clinical Library and Worcestershire Health Libraries Kettering NHS Foundation Trust Kings Fund Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Public Health England Royal Pharmaceutical Society South London Health Libraries (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
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VuFind Discovery Open source environment Single point of access to range of information: – library catalogue – eBooks and subscription sources – local digital archives and repositories Records are harvested and then indexed Real time availability Web services links to resources such as from Ebsco or ProQuest Supports differing consortial views Mobile friendly – Bootstrap framework
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Project management Installation and configuration Establishing data harvesting Web services integration Ongoing hosting and support PTFS Europe’s role
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PTFS Europe Discovery partnerships Deep Web Technologies Reseller EBSCO Reciprocal Technology Partner ProQuest
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Demo 1 VuFind connecting multiple institutions
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Multiple institutions Record de-duplication and merging Koha and Millenium LMS’s MARC21 and UNIMARC
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Demo 2 VuFind connected to subscription data
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OneSearch option Library catalogue Summon EDS
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VuFind as a discovery option Discovery Tools for Health Libraries Lucy Vaux-Harvey – Customer Services Consultant Keith Shell – Business Development Manager Nick Dimant – Managing Directornick.dimant@ptfs-europe.com
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Demo Sites VuFind connecting multiple institutions VuFind connected to subscription data
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