If you’ve heard the buzz about Library 2.0, but don’t quite understand how to implement it, you’ve come to the right place. The Internet is full of helpful webinars, presentations, and tutorials designed to help you take your library to the next level, and we’ve highlighted some of the most useful of these here. Read on to learn how your library can get with the times.
Gerrit Gragert - Magister Artium der Bibliothekswissenschaft und der Informatik, Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Blacklight is an open source OPAC (online public access catalog). That means libraries (or anyone else) can use it to allow people to search and browse their collections online. Blacklight uses Solr to index and search, and it has a highly configurable Ruby on Rails front-end. Currently, Blacklight can index, search, and provide faceted browsing for MaRC records and several kinds of XML documents, including TEI, EAD, and GDMS. Blacklight was developed at the University of Virginia Library and is made public under an Apache 2.0 license.
DiscoverLibrary is a new search and discovery tool for the library’s vast collection of resources. A simple search box will bring back results from a number of different sources, including Acorn, the library’s catalog, and the Vanderbilt TV News Archive. Additionally, many of the library’s online article databases are searchable through DiscoverLibrary on the second tab.
This is the initial release of DiscoverLibrary, and its development is an ongoing process. Over time we will add new resources and features, as well as refine the user interface. Please help us make the new service better by leaving your suggestions and comments in the box to the right.
Äußerst interessantes Thesenpapier über die Zukunft sog. Discovery Tools in Bibliotheken. Besonders (aber nicht nur) der Abschnitt über OPACs ist auch für Deutschland höchst relevant.
Mitis-Stanzel, Irene (2008) Social Tagging in Bibliotheken. MSc Thesis, Postgraduate programme in Library and Information Studies, Austrian National Library (Austria), University of Vienna (Austria).
This study examines the question of whether tags can be useful in the process of information retrieval. Participants were asked to search a social bookmarking tool specialising in academic articles (CiteULike) and an online journal database (Pubmed) in order to determine if users found tags were useful in their search process. The actions of each participants were captured using screen capture software and they were asked to describe their search process. The preliminary study showed that users did indeed make use of tags in their search process, as a guide to searching and as hyperlinks to potentially useful articles. However, users also made use of controlled vocabularies in the journal database.
A. Genest, and L. Heller. Kooperation versus Eigenprofil? 31. Arbeits- und Fortbildungstagung der ASpB e.V., Sektion 5 im Deutschen Bibliotheksverband, 25. bis 28. September 2007 in der Technischen Universität Berlin, page 137--146. Karlsruhe, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken, Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe, (2009)