Searching > Finding

Changes to how people are finding books & other ‘stuff’ that

libraries provide

These things are going on in parallel

• Records in Union Catalogues such as World Cat & LibrariesAustralia are being included in search engines such as Google &/or Google Scholar

• Along with the disaggregation of the ILMS, there are major changes to the OPAC

• There are new search protocols becoming available & more widely used

Union Catalogue records > Search Engines

• World Cat has already made the move, NLA plans to do the same with LibrariesAustralia

• What is the effect of this?

• If our images are anything to go by, most of your traffic will come from outside your own domain!

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What happened when there was no access via Yahoo – Searches via our own catalogue decreased!

Think about what this means to people landing on a record in your catalogue who have not come in

via your website!

• Do they know where they are?

• Do they know your ‘rules’?

• Do they understand your language?

• How can you help them?

Clear indication of what to do

What/where is RGS?

Who/WhatWhere are Bennett & WEB??

Changes to the OPAC

• Commercial– Aquabrowser http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/– Endeca (NCSU) http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/

• ‘Home Made’– Pines http://demo.gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/index.xml

– Huddersfield http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cls

– WPOPAC http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/record/1305932?p=1305932&page

to find out more about WPOPAC go to http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11133/

To read morehttp://litablog.org/2006/03/28/cil-2006-future-of-catalogs/

–http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/

–http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/

–http://demo.gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/index.xml

http://webcat.hud.ac.uk:4128/modperl/recenttop1.pl

–http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/record/1305932?p=1305932&page

And if you build it will they come?http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/85/

New searching protocols

• Old – Z39.50• New

– SRW/SRU – OpenSearch http://opensearch.a9.com/

This is to be used by NLA & CAN for Cultural Collections Gateway

– MXG (NISO Metasearch XML Gateway (MXG) protocol, which is based on the NISO SRU protocol. MXG uses URL’s sent via HTTP to retrieve XML responses )http://www.niso.org/committees/MS_initiative.html

More details available athttp://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2006/04/mxg_and_opensea.html

References

If you only read one, please make it this one!

The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with other Discovery Tools, prepared for the Library of Congress by Karen Calhoun. March 17, 2006. Accessed April 18 2006.

• http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

It will provide you with 84 items in its Endnotes.