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Loading... Next Gen Library Catalogs (The Tech Set®) (2010)by Marshall Breeding
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Today's Web-savvy users often bypass traditional library catalogs for more interactive, tech-friendly interfaces. Help your library stand out within the crowded landscape of information providers with Marshall Breeding's new, highly practical guide to interactive next-generation library catalogs. Learn how to give users access to a wide selection of print and electronic content with this jargon-free, step-by-step guide. Breeding outlines the important functions and features of next-gen catalogs, briefs you on all of the available commercial and open source software, and helps you select which products are right for your library's next-gen catalog. You'll learn to lay the groundwork for practical implementation, integrate the catalog into your existing technological environment, address a multitude of common implementation issues and concerns, and assess the impact of your Catalog so you can demonstrate the change you led. No library descriptions found. |
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These discovery interface can be bring shame to those libraries who haven't exercised discipline while cataloguing in their OPACS since these heavily rely on metadata, and physical collection surrogates for users to filter (data mining)
Few of the open source Discovery interface tools can be found at
1. http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/
2. http://thesocialopac.net/
3. http://projectblacklight.org/
4. http://vufind.org/ ( )