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Pascal Calarco | 1 Dec 22:03
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Professional opportunity: Systems Librarian, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Are you a creative and enthusiastic information professional who loves
working collaboratively to innovate and enable new systems and services
in academic library environments?

Are you excited about working with a mixture of open-source and vended
technology solutions and have experience overseeing the technical
components of an integrated library system or next-generation resource
discovery system and related information systems?

Do you want to work with a growing team of technology and library
professionals to support and advance the academic mission of one of the
top 20 universities in the United States?  If so, read on!

The Library Systems Department of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame
has a vacancy for a Systems Librarian, serving as the lead Librarian for
the technical components of the shared Michiana Academic Library
Consortium (MALC) Aleph and Primo resource discovery systems and 
services.  MALC serves approximately 225 librarians and staff across 
five institutional academic libraries, serving a population of faculty, 
students and staff of around 19,500.

You will also contribute to the Hesburgh Libraries' partnership in the
Mellon-funded and University of Rochester-led eXtensible Catalog (XC)
project, for which Notre Dame is participating to document and build
integration of XC with any Aleph site.  Looking further, you will
collaborate and lead in research, design, development and implementation
of other innovative technology solutions for the Libraries.

Requirements include a master degree in Library or Information Science
from an ALA-accredited program or an equivalent advanced degree in a
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Bauer, Kathleen | 1 Dec 23:15
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Survey results for a Vufind implementation

Hello,
Many of you on this list are familiar with Vufind, developed at Villanova. Yale is currently beta testing
its own implementation called Yufind (our main catalog interface is called Orbis). We have just
completed a brief survey run in October of undergraduates who have used the Vufind beta implementation at
Yale. Below is a brief synopsis and a link to the full survey. A System Usability Scale was included in the
survey. The SUS is widely used in evaluating product usability. I would be very interested in hearing from
other institutions who are implementing a other next generation type OPACs who would be interested in
running the SUS. This could provide useful comparative data for libraries considering different OPAC products.

83 surveys were submitted by readers indicating they had used the Yufind search. Of those 83 responses,
79.3% found that results were what they had expected and 75.6% found what they needed. Respondents who
tried facets tended to like them (85.0%), and those who didn't like facets commonly complained that
results were oddly not related to their search or took too long to load. 57.8% of respondents preferred
Yufind to Orbis, but when asked for the first place they would turn for a book search, slightly more
respondents would turn to Orbis than to Yufind (40.2% to 35.4%). Some respondents indicated they were
frustrated by the broad search in Yufind, which in some cases returned many highly irrelevant results,
and by slow response times. Other respondents were unable to use Yufind to locate items they knew to be in
the collection, such as the journal Nature.
Some changes could be made to Yufind to improve results, and a key area would be facets. In the short term,
those facets with misleading metadata can be suppressed, including era and format. Additionally,
facets can be made more relevant by narrowing the set of results to exclude those records that may only
match one word in a search query. Finally, usability results indicated that facets should be presented in
a list that the reader could manipulate with an alphabetical sort. This sort option should be implemented.
Survey results indicated that while Yufind is viewed as promising, it needs significant improvement. A
search of the Yale collection should be more accurate so that very popular items such as Nature (as
measured by holdings, circulation, or downloads) are easily located in the Yufind search. This type of
customization to the Yale environment would help to improve Yufind's standing as a search interface for
Yale readers. Another area where Yufind could distinguish itself would be by integrating seamlessly
with other Yale services. Candidates would be easy export to Refworks/Endnote and ordering book
delivery via Eli Express or interlibrary loan. The benefit of this emphasis in the Yufind implementation
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Jonathan Rochkind | 1 Dec 23:22
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Re: Survey results for a Vufind implementation

Thanks. It would be interesting to know more about what abourt the "era" 
and "format" facets was "misleading"--and if this has any implications 
for the way cataloging is done.

Jonathan

Bauer, Kathleen wrote:
> Hello,
> Many of you on this list are familiar with Vufind, developed at Villanova. Yale is currently beta testing
its own implementation called Yufind (our main catalog interface is called Orbis). We have just
completed a brief survey run in October of undergraduates who have used the Vufind beta implementation at
Yale. Below is a brief synopsis and a link to the full survey. A System Usability Scale was included in the
survey. The SUS is widely used in evaluating product usability. I would be very interested in hearing from
other institutions who are implementing a other next generation type OPACs who would be interested in
running the SUS. This could provide useful comparative data for libraries considering different OPAC products.
>
> 83 surveys were submitted by readers indicating they had used the Yufind search. Of those 83 responses,
79.3% found that results were what they had expected and 75.6% found what they needed. Respondents who
tried facets tended to like them (85.0%), and those who didn't like facets commonly complained that
results were oddly not related to their search or took too long to load. 57.8% of respondents preferred
Yufind to Orbis, but when asked for the first place they would turn for a book search, slightly more
respondents would turn to Orbis than to Yufind (40.2% to 35.4%). Some respondents indicated they were
frustrated by the broad search in Yufind, which in some cases returned many highly irrelevant results,
and by slow response times. Other respondents were unable to use Yufind to locate
  items they knew to be in the collection, such as the journal Nature.
> Some changes could be made to Yufind to improve results, and a key area would be facets. In the short term,
those facets with misleading metadata can be suppressed, including era and format. Additionally,
facets can be made more relevant by narrowing the set of results to exclude those records that may only
match one word in a search query. Finally, usability results indicated that facets should be presented in
a list that the reader could manipulate with an alphabetical sort. This sort option should be implemented.
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Jimmy Ghaphery | 2 Dec 14:27
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Re: Survey results for a Vufind implementation

Kathleen,

Very interesting results and a keen idea about pooling some of this data.

Do you have an SUS score for the current catalog with which to compare 
the initial score of 66 from Yufind?

--Jimmy

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Head, Library Information Systems
VCU Libraries
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Bauer, Kathleen wrote:
> Hello,
> Many of you on this list are familiar with Vufind, developed at Villanova. Yale is currently beta testing
its own implementation called Yufind (our main catalog interface is called Orbis). We have just
completed a brief survey run in October of undergraduates who have used the Vufind beta implementation at
Yale. Below is a brief synopsis and a link to the full survey. A System Usability Scale was included in the
survey. The SUS is widely used in evaluating product usability. I would be very interested in hearing from
other institutions who are implementing a other next generation type OPACs who would be interested in
running the SUS. This could provide useful comparative data for libraries considering different OPAC products.
> 
> 83 surveys were submitted by readers indicating they had used the Yufind search. Of those 83 responses,
79.3% found that results were what they had expected and 75.6% found what they needed. Respondents who
tried facets tended to like them (85.0%), and those who didn't like facets commonly complained that
results were oddly not related to their search or took too long to load. 57.8% of respondents preferred
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Bauer, Kathleen | 2 Dec 14:57
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Re: Survey results for a Vufind implementation

Hi,
No, I don't have a SUS score for the current Voyager catalog. That is another piece of data that would be good
to have. One of the problems with using that as a comparison would be that for good or bad many people at Yale
are acquainted with our Voyager catalog (Orbis), and I imagine that familiarity with Orbis would affect
the SUS score.
Katie

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Survey results for a Vufind implementation

Kathleen,

Very interesting results and a keen idea about pooling some of this data.

Do you have an SUS score for the current catalog with which to compare
the initial score of 66 from Yufind?

--Jimmy

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Jimmy Ghaphery
Head, Library Information Systems
VCU Libraries
http://www.library.vcu.edu
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Bauer, Kathleen wrote:
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Neil Godfrey | 4 Dec 03:01
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digital resources cataloguing benchmarks?

Hi all,

Is anyone aware of any benchmark studies for the cataloguing of digital
resources?

Thanks,

Neil Godfrey

Singapore National Library
http://metalogger.wordpress.com
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Robb Mullins | 7 Dec 04:25
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looking for digitized scores linked to a main library catalog

Hi,
 
Can anyone point me to a catalog for this?
 
I want a digitized piece of music, accessible through a main library catalog through a link.
 
I'm trying to find a library catalog that has this.  It could be housed in a separate silo database, but I'm
looking for the digitized items that are linked directly to the main catalog.  
 
Something where I could easily enter the main library catalog, search for a piece of music, click on the
record, click the link, and be at or nearly at the digitized item.
 
If the item is only accessible through a separate database, that's not what I'm looking for.  If it's both
catalog or database, great, but I'm just looking for the catalogs with links to digitized print music
items. 
 
Thanks,
RM
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Michael Norman | 7 Dec 06:12
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Re: looking for digitized scores linked to a main library catalog

Hi Robb,

We have over a hundred scores we have digitized through the Open Content
Alliance digitization work we are doing at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. We have the links to the full-text in our online catalog
as well.

Here is a link:

https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=5639291

If you want to see others, do an advanced search for "score" as keyword
search and "Open Content Alliance" as author words search.

The URL links point to our digital collections repository.

Hope this helps,

Michael

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Robb Mullins <robbmullins <at> yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone point me to a catalog for this?
>
> I want a digitized piece of music, accessible through a main library
> catalog through a link.
>
> I'm trying to find a library catalog that has this.  It could be housed in
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Alexander Johannesen | 7 Dec 16:37
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Re: looking for digitized scores linked to a main library catalog

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 06:12, Michael Norman <manorman <at> illinois.edu> wrote:
> https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=5639291
>
> If you want to see others, do an advanced search for "score" as keyword
> search and "Open Content Alliance" as author words search.

LOVED the flipBook presentation of content! Absolutely brilliant!

Alex
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Frances Dean McNamara | 8 Dec 15:13
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Re: looking for digitized scores linked to a main library catalog

We have a special collection of Chopin Early Editions that have been digitized and records in our catalog
link in.  Try

http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/

Search   chopin early editions

Then page down and you will see records for the individual scores and the records have links to the
Greenstone digital library version of the files.

Frances McNamara
University of Chicago

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Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 9:26 PM
To: NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] looking for digitized scores linked to a main library catalog

Hi,

Can anyone point me to a catalog for this?

I want a digitized piece of music, accessible through a main library catalog through a link.

I'm trying to find a library catalog that has this.  It could be housed in a separate silo database, but I'm
looking for the digitized items that are linked directly to the main catalog.

Something where I could easily enter the main library catalog, search for a piece of music, click on the
record, click the link, and be at or nearly at the digitized item.
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