CASS Workshop 1: New Technologies
April 30th2010
GBIP: Print 2.0 and Library Thing
Demonstration
Benita Konjarska , Matthew Hunter
Thorpe-Bowker
Benita and Matthew demonstrated the new Global Booksin Print platform, which continues the general trend to reduce the requirement to be a skilled user to obtain good results, and to offer additional features which are compatible with habits and skills developed by users in broader internet experience. Some of these features are not yet active, chief of these being AquaBrowser(in GBIP context), which employs word clouds. AquaBrowser is live in the US and UK and on demo in Australia:
“Normal” professional search capabilities don’t appear to be compromised and may even be improved; certainly there are now more ways to search.
Library Thing for Libraries was also demonstrated. This app would be familiar in style to those with any experience of blogging. In our context, Library Thing is “an additional feed of data in the form of word tags, recommendations, other editions and reviews that supplements a library catalogues existing records.” *From Global flyer.
Brief reference was made to Library Anywhere – another app produced by Library Thing for sale to libraries that will show library catalogues in a format suitable for mobile phones. This is still in test phase. These phone apps are all the go at present.
James Bennett: Demonstration of JB Online, new and enhanced features
Sarah Cavanagh
James Bennett
The new version was released in august, ’09 and is claimed much faster than the previous version. The platform now utilizes SQL (Structured Query Language).
Another enhancement is enablement of SFX searching: SFX is software that works with the library databases to link from article citations to a list of access options available for that article, including the full text of the article if the full text is available. However not all databases are compatible with the SFX software. Those not compatible include Symphony (SirsiDynix) and Spydus.
Orders now allow an acquisition record to be imbedded.
Much enthusiasm was shown for the subject kits that JB provides to aid collection development. These are often forwarded to teaching staff.
Titlepage: a free user-friendly price
and availability service
Kathleen Dauksza, Annmarie Sellars
NMIT
Surprisingly few attendees reported that their library was using this free resource, which has been around since 2004, when it was launched by the Australian Publishers Association. It can be used to gather all the necessary information to place orders for Australian published material. Most importantly, it is very user friendly. Sign up online to get a user name and password.
E-reserve in libraries and discussion
Paul Kloppenborg and Michael Sturmey
Learning Resource Centre
William Angliss Institute
This was an interesting show and tell concerning developments at William Angliss (W.A.). The Institute is increasingly moving into higher education, which has implications in online library service provision; TAFE VC does not cut it for higher education. Paul has conducted research to inform changes in service provision at W.A. In part, this has shown that while there is an increase in higher education provision by the TAFE sector, there are actually few individual TAFES involved in its provision.
The W.A. library now has its web site externally hosted by SirsiDynix. A range of technologies is being used and explored to meet developing needs. These include Rooms (SirsiDynix), and Joomla–an open sourcecontent management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets.Joomla is a free download:
EReserve technologies discussed included Blackboard and DocutekERes- an Electronic Reserves system that can integrate with Blackboard. PDF’s are much used for W.A. E-docs, as we would expect.
Copyright issues were discussed in some detail and strategies included time limited documents and routine inclusion of copyright notices that must appear before the document content proper.Monash University methods were discussed, including using barcodes as file names.
This was a very dense session and concerns work in progress. More notes may be posted later, if received from the presenters.
Notes taken by Michael Todd (CASS Secretary)
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