Open Libraries Vu Find

South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru Resource Discovery with Open Source Software Paul Johnson Acting Project Manager, Virtual Academic Library Integrating VuFind into the Virtual Academic Library Discovery Portal

Agenda
SWWHEP & the Virtual Academic Library
Requirements
Options & Decision
Installation
Enhancements
Other implementations
Support
South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru

Virtual Academic Library: Background
WAG: Reaching Higher / Reconfiguration & Collaboration Fund
SWWHEP : “an innovative partnership to integrate and enhance a range of services to students and staff”

Shared resources:
1.1 million books and journals
30,000 journal subscriptions
2,000 study spaces
720 student PCs in library buildings
South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru Virtual Academic Library: the concept
Shared access:
Reciprocal borrowing
RFID
E-access
Document delivery
Longer opening hours

Existing Resource Discovery Swansea University
ExLibris Voyager OPAC
SFX Link Resolver
Database directory

Existing Resource Discovery Swansea Metropolitan University
Talis Prism OPAC
Serials Solutions Link Resolver
Subject pages, including eBook and eJournal lists

Existing Resource Discovery Trinity University College
SirsiDynix Horizon Information Portal
Resource pages
No link resolver

Resource Discovery Essential Requirements
Common catalogue for print material, including availability and delivery options.
E-resource access (federated search)

Resource Discovery Wish list
Search limits
Faceted search
Tag clouds
Book jackets
Browsing
Tagging
Comments
Biographies
Reviews

Harvest or Federate?
Considered Federated Search, but …
Slower and clunkier
Less control over data
A good solution where data cannot be aggregated, but not ideal for a single union catalog

Resource Discovery The Contenders South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru
ExLibris Primo
Innovative Encore and InnReach
Talis Prism 3
AquaBrowser
Endeca
BiblioCommons
VuFind

Resource Discovery The Choice : VuFind South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru
Why?
Attractive, modern interface
Included many of the “wishlist” features
Open Source … can be changed and developed to suit requirements
Cost!
Total control over implementation

VuFind Features South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru

VuFind : Installation South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru
Operating Systems:
Solaris
Linux
Windows
Prerequisites:
Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or later
PHP 5.2.0 or later
MySQL 4.1 or later
Java J2SE JDK 1.4 or later

VuFind Installation South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru

VuFind : Customization South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru
Templates and CSS files
Config files cover:
Local Server
Authentication
External content (Bookjackets, Reviews, Authors)
Web search
Drivers for LMS connections
Indexing preferences

Special developments South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru
The Virtual Academic Library will be adding enhancements to:
Merge bibliographic data from three LMSs
Connect to three LMSs for availability information
Handle multi classification schemes
Incorporate federated search into the interface (using Metalib Xserver)
Enhancements will be offered back to the community

Future developments South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru
Production Release: 1.1
OAI Importer
Record view page based on Format
Federated Search
Authority Index
Future Development
Suggested Resources and Searches
Circulation Stats for Popularity, etc.
Grouping of similiar items by edition - FRBR
Microsoft Research Pane SOAP Service

Support South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru
Virtual Academic Library is not purchasing external support
None yet available!
VuFind is a small product compared to a full LMS
VuFind mailing lists are an excellent source for advice and discussion
Documentation leaves something to be desired

Other implementations South West Wales Higher Education Partnership Partneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru

Other implementations
CARLI Consortium (I-Share) - Beta - http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf/
Georgia Tech (Beta only) - http://finder.library.gatech.edu/vufind/
London School of Economics – https://beta.catalogue.lse.ac.uk/

Further information
VuFind Home: http://www.vufind.org/

Thank you!
Paul Johnson
Acting Project Manager, Virtual Academic Library
[email_address]

Open Libraries Vu Find

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