Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

myCybrary

Where’s Slavko?

Who the hell is Roy?

myCybrary ver .001

Movie #1 Removed Minority Report Mall Scene

myCybrary .002

Movie #2 Removed Brazil Message Tubes Scene

Road to myCybrary

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Cybrary Website

Current system

Apple Xserve, Xserve RAID

Blue Dragon, MySQL, Innopac Oracle ILS, MT, reSearcher

Most resource pages served from DB/ILS content

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Cybrary ResourcesDatabases, eJournals, Subject Guides, & RSS feeds, What’s New scripts for ILS, eReserves

eManual Information Literacy lessons, guides and viewlets

vRef, expedited ILL, lecture video

1st Generation

First generation of MyCybrary simply provided access to

individual ILS-based account services

personal information management tools

No easy way to deliver other custom services to individuals

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

MyLibrary Systems

Traditional portal-based MyLibrary systems force user to login to a new environment

Use to date around 5-7%

Content delivery general

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

MyCourses System

University of Rochester CoURse Resources System more success

Resource delivery based on courses with eReserve material

Required removal of eReserves from ILS for desired functionality

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Campus Politics

myCybrary Beta took 2 yrs and 3 weeks to develop

2 years to get SIS access

3 weeks to build

Just-Do-It requires Teamwork

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

myCybrary SystemCornerstone delivery via

Course, integrate with SIS/ILS/ILLS/web

Students will use it because

professor tells them to

access to course resources

Success of e/Reserve example

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

New myCybrary

Same framework as website

3 different levels of delivery

Student = Personal

Courses = Subject

Library/Campus = General

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Student = PersonalLinks to student’s own resources, plus others

campus & personal mail

personal web storage

personal blog and wiki via Library’s server

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Courses = SubjectLogin builds list of courses

Use existing resources + new

course outlines, links to course websites/, Department

DBs, eJs, Guides, RSS, Course Help, eReserves, video feeds

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Library = General

Access to general resources

ILL’s, Library account

Furl/unalog, RefWorks

Institutional Repository

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Next Steps

1st Release January

Course Outlines drop zone

LC profile for new books/eJs

dbWiz with course profile

Report on usage in 1st year

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Future Options

ILL articles/cite to web storage

RSS notification of Journal issues, search profile results

iPodder lecture notify/feed

IM integration for personal/vRef

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Happy Coders

Buy new computer every 2 years

Buy 2 techie toys each year

Buy lunch w beer every week

Praise daily

Salary? Want a new computer?

Mark Leggott - University of Winnipeg - Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords

Demo

Mark Leggott, University LibrarianUniversity of Winnipeg

m.leggott@uwinnipeg.ca (e-mail/MSN)