I came across a reference to Scriblio, a WordPress overlay aka frontend of ILS systems in a Library 2.0 book yesterday. I thought I’d share it with you all since it does many of the things that some of the ILS vendors were describing as costly add ons like Polaris’ portal. This is open source [...]
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The committee asked that I pass on the following information for everyone’s review.
To see examples of the following ILS vendor’s online catalogs, please check:
http://catalog.cooklib.org/ (Innovative Interfaces with Encore)
http://eps.memphislibrary.org/rooms/portal/page/Sirsi_HOME
(Sirsi Dynix Symphony)
http://polariscatalog.piercecountylibrary.org/polaris/default.aspx
(Polaris)
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I’m a big proponent for allowing tagging of books in the catalog and I’ve heard about Library Thing for Libraries for some time but, Karen Schneider over at Free Range Librarian has an interesting post on why tagging in catalogs might simply fail at best or backfire at worst unless it’s given the kind of [...]
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As a jumpstart to our discussion of Web 2.0 questions, Terry and I brainstormed a few web 2.0 questions for vendors. Please add your thoughts by commenting on this post.
Excerpted from email to the Web 2.0 group:
You can see an example of what is possible by visiting the Ann Arbor District Library. Follow this [...]
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Categories are WordPress’ way of organizing posts with a similar subject, think of them as subject headings. As you work on this project, you may want to add the appropriate categories for the type of questions you have for ILS vendors.
Since this blog has multiple contributors, it is highly recommended that you identify yourself as [...]
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