Tuesday, November 6, 3pm-5pm
Conference call number: 217-265-9181

Minute Taker: Amanda Pippitt

Agenda:

VUFind

• Progress update from CARLI
  • How was the demo at the CARLI Annual Meeting?
  • Responses to suggestions so far (see wiki for details)
• Next steps from us?
  • One idea: creating testing script ideas for this, and using them, could be a good start to the WV testing script we’ve discussed’
  • More testing?
  • From prior meeting minutes: “Help present fall webcast to introduce CARLI members to product and recruit beta testers for January” … ?

Voyager/Web Voyage

• Any news on December Voyager upgrade
• Canned search urls
  • Our site provides instructions
    • http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-prod/I-Share/opac/webvoy_url_builder.html
    • Paula & I experienced some difficulties with a search she was building according to those instructions
  • Can we provide an automatic translator such as these?
    • http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=425
    • http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/cannedsearch/cannedsearch.asp

Internet Librarian report

• Would this be a useful contribution for the CARLI newsletter, in conjunction with some info about the VUFind project?
  
  • As an aside, are they really serious about the blog? (http://blog.carli.illinois.edu/)
• OPAC-related themes:
  
  • User generated content
    
    • Allowing comments, tagging, or other forms of user participation shows you value your users
  • Lots of emphasis on federated search
    
    • Integrate catalog & other research tools such as databases, images, etc.
    • Treat print and digital results with equal weight
    • Create a “comprehensive discovery environment” (Marshall Breeding)
  • New systems should:
    
    • Decouple front end interface from back end system
    • Increase findability, usability, and remixability (Casey Bisson)
    • Be fast
    • Be visually rich, better presented
      
      • Possibly offer search options utilizing visualization
    • Use valid, clean, semantic markup which is easy for indexing and screenreading
    • Provide better relevancy ranking
    • Accommodate information browsing/grazing techniques
      
      • Enable users to drill down/narrow gradually via faceted browsing, clustered results
      • Provide navigational breadcrumbs to make changing direction easier
      • Make it possible to save your place when searching, so you can come back later and jump in where you left off (like saving a spot in a video game)
    • Permit searching of parts, not just wholes (Google/Amazon interior book searches)
      
      • Provide familiar information delivery options
      • E-mail this result
      • E-mail stable link for easy returning/citing
      • RSS feeds
      • Grab and embed this result in your blog, del.icio.us, etc.
  • Systems mentioned in relation to next-gen OPACS
    
    • Endeca
    • AquaBroswer
    • ExLibris Primo
    • III Encore
    • VUFind
    • OCLC WorldCat Local
    • University of Rochester’s eXtensible catalog
    • Scriblio
• Danny Sullivan on other themes in the future of search
  
  • Vertical search (specialized, the “deep dive”) will continue to increase in value and usage
  • Personalized search (where the search tool learns about you and makes decisions on that basis) will also grow, despite privacy concerns
  • People will still need help to search effectively (suffering from “search engine fatigue”)

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Collections Working Group
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Digital Collections Users
I-Share Users
I-Share Acquisitions & Serials Team
I-Share Cataloging & Authority Control Team
I-Share Instruction Team
I-Share OPAC Team
I-Share Resource Sharing Team

Illinois Repository Task Force
Image Database Task Force
Learning Objects Task Force
Library Tools Task Force
Seamless Access Task Force
Statewide Serials Collection Task Force