Comments on: Building the “next generation” library catalog http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/ Library and Information Technology Association Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:39:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: sankaran a http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-23950 sankaran a Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:57:19 +0000 http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-23950 Information Technology is a wonderful tool to enhance the services of a library. As mentioned in the article, there are several opensource softwares are available, we (librarians) can develop our own systems to meet the requirements of users. Sometime, we may not succeed on the first attempt, but if we keep on trying, we will succeed one day. Information Technology is a wonderful tool to enhance the services of a library. As mentioned in the article, there are several opensource softwares are available, we (librarians) can develop our own systems to meet the requirements of users. Sometime, we may not succeed on the first attempt, but if we keep on trying, we will succeed one day.

]]> By: Prajeesh Bhaskaran http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-22150 Prajeesh Bhaskaran Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:51:46 +0000 http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-22150 The modern libraries have laks of bibliographic datas in different categories (books,video recordings,sound recordings etc.).Searching all these things with an apt keyword is very important. An integrated system can satisfy the clients to retrieve thier specific information.Time spending for searching is an important thing . This is the time to develop a system to search the catalogue with extra speed and accuracy . To raise the cooperation of experts in the field of information is a must. The modern libraries have laks of bibliographic datas in different categories (books,video recordings,sound recordings etc.).Searching all these things with an apt keyword is very important. An integrated system can satisfy the clients to retrieve thier specific information.Time spending for searching is an important thing . This is the time to develop a system to search the catalogue with extra speed and accuracy . To raise the cooperation of experts in the field of information is a must.

]]> By: jgriffey http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-21925 jgriffey Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:30:01 +0000 http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-21925 Nicely said, but I believe strongly that the next iteration of catalog will be an externally managed one (or at least one where the content/database/information resides remotely). It will look more like LibraryThing than any of the local library catalogs. I actually asked a Google representative at ALA this year when they were going to purchase OCLC...that's all it would take for there to be a Google Catalog. Nicely said, but I believe strongly that the next iteration of catalog will be an externally managed one (or at least one where the content/database/information resides remotely). It will look more like LibraryThing than any of the local library catalogs.

I actually asked a Google representative at ALA this year when they were going to purchase OCLC…that’s all it would take for there to be a Google Catalog.

]]> By: Roger Hiles http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-20963 Roger Hiles Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:06:54 +0000 http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/#comment-20963 The library world is now very different place from the world of PDPs and System/3s that gave birth to the ILS and the first generation OPACs, for the reasons you noted as well as for the fact that it used to be feasible for a vendor to control all the data the library staff and patrons would need to see all on one computer. "Integrated" systems may not have done everything well, but they at least tried to do everything. Now the key task we as librarians face is in presenting data from dozens or hundreds or thousands of sources to our patrons in a simple to use, seemlessly integrated way. The job is bigger than one vender or one library; the communities that create standards as well as those that guide open source software products are where our profession can push the industry to that "next generation". The library world is now very different place from the world of PDPs and System/3s that gave birth to the ILS and the first generation OPACs, for the reasons you noted as well as for the fact that it used to be feasible for a vendor to control all the data the library staff and patrons would need to see all on one computer. “Integrated” systems may not have done everything well, but they at least tried to do everything.

Now the key task we as librarians face is in presenting data from dozens or hundreds or thousands of sources to our patrons in a simple to use, seemlessly integrated way. The job is bigger than one vender or one library; the communities that create standards as well as those that guide open source software products are where our profession can push the industry to that “next generation”.

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