Copac: your union catalogue today and tomorrow

Copac: your union catalogue today and tomorrow
Union catalogue of c. 56 contributors:
National libraries
Academic libraries
Special collections
Professional associations
Government
Charities
Public libraries
Museums
Recent developments
Forthcoming developments
Over to you…
Copac: National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue FIL 29/06/10

You can now login to Copac (institutional login or create your own). If you login Copac:
saves all of your searches,
allows you to create online bibiliographies
shows you the latest journals table of contents.

Search history is a record of your research.
You can add tags and notes to your search history
You can also re-run and edit searches.

My References is a bibliography of records, which you have marked in your search results.
You can export records from here.

If you register your library catalogue’s z39.50 details with IESR we can try and include an option to search your own catalogue at the same time as Copac.

Your library is marked with the @yourlibrary logo.

Copac reengineering
New software
New architecture
New interface
New ‘Work level’ deduplication

An example of one of the new developments.
This illustrates the potential for introducing facets so you can navigate large result sets more effectively. What facets we display will be something to review with users when we redevelop the interface.
This is a test version without deduplication or presentation stylesheet.

‘Work’ level deduplication
The current deduplication that focuses on merging records for the same document held in different institutions.
This will continue, but in addition we are exploring work level deduplication
Work level deduplication would (try to) bring together all the records relating to a specific work.
The biggest impact would be for the relatively small number of works that exist in many forms.
For example:
Pride and prejudice : national stereotypes in 19th and 20th century Europe east to west / editor, LászlóKontler 1995. (1 record)
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen (734 records)
Electronic (20) Book (630)
Audio book (10) Video/film (60)
Music score (50) Sound recording (20)
Language: [English (670)] Date: [2001-2010 (30)] 
Institution: [Aberdeen (20)] 

Ongoing & Forthcoming Developments:
Continued content expansion
New more flexible database
Restructured web site
New look and feel
Interface review & revision
Explore User contribution
Service integration: Copac & Zetoc & Archives Hub
Focus on support for library staff
Today:
How can Copac support your document supply more effectively… ?

Copac: your union catalogue today and tomorrow

by Lisa Jeskins on Aug 06, 2010

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