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Examples

INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND PRESENTATION TOOLS

Faceted Browsing Examples

• VuFind (Open source)
  Villanova's "library resource portal" http://www.vufind.org/index.php'''. Presentation about its development http://www.code4lib.org/2007/nagy. "VuFine Rocks the House", blog posting by Roy Tennant.
• Blacklight (Open source)
  UVA's catalog using Solr and Lucene http://aleph.lib.virginia.edu/blacklight'''. At ALA 2007 they talked about setting up subject catalogs (e.g., Music Catalog, Arts catalog) so that they could have facets for those specific subject areas.
• See also other examples below, such as WorldCat Local and Primo.

Endeca (Vendor product)

• NCSU Libraries http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/\\

Here, NCSU explains a little about Endeca and their process of implementing an Endeca catalog: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca/technology.html

• McMaster University Libraries, CA http://library.mcmaster.ca/
  (Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) http://catalog.fcla.edu/ux.jsp. The 11 State University Libraries of Florida upgraded to Aleph V.18 and switched to a new catalog interface based on Endeca. Each Library has its own Endeca interface.

Primo (Vendor product)

• Vanderbilt http://tinyurl.com/3x8mtg
• University of Minnesota http://tinyurl.com/39nwnk
• University of Iowa http://smartsearch.uiowa.edu/
• The Royal Library of Denmark http://www.kb.dk/en/

Worldcat Local (Vendor product)

• University of Washington http://www.lib.washington.edu
• Peninsula Library System http://www.plsinfo.org/features/worldcat.html

Encore ((Vendor product)

• Michigan State Universities beta version of their new catalog. Has a google-like interface and lets you narrow down your search after you search the main keyword: http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/screens/encore.html
  Here is a video tutorial about the new catalog: http://www.lib.msu.edu/pubs/magic/encore/librarysearch.html
  * University of Kentucky is also in public beta on Encore: http://ukty-mt.iii.com:6060/iii/encore/app. There's also a link to a demo with exercises: http://www.uky.edu/~bcarring/e.html
  

Integrated Library Systems

• Evergreen Pines http://www.open-ils.org/
  Evergreen, an enterprise-class Integrated Library System (ILS), is developed and maintained by a worldwide group of organizations and interested individuals, led by the Georgia Public Library Service. Licensed under the General Public License (GPL), Evergreen is open-source software and can be downloaded for free. Evergreen is currently in use by Georgia Library PINES, a consortium of 265 public libraries. Additionally, libraries in British Columbia as well as the University of Windsor have committed to migrating to Evergreen.
• Koha http://www.koha.org/
  Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha's impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base.

Information Visualization

• Aquabrowser http://www.medialab.nl/ (Vendor product)
  visual faceted search that connects to any number of data sources ... AquaBrowser can be found in libraries around the world, including over 120 library systems in the USA, libraries in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Italy and 80% of all public libraries the Netherlands. Today, nearly 2,000 library locations are serving over 60 million citizens worldwide with the AquaBrowser search and discovery experience.
  • Queens Library, NY http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/
  • Alachua County Library District, FL http://www.aclib.us/index.php
• LibraryThing for Libraries http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/
• Grokker http://www.groxis.com/service/grokker/enterprise.html (Vendor product)
  Content federation and visualization tool. Currently being used in EBSCO, as well as at SUNY Binghamton (they're using it with Metalib; login needed). Stanford had a desktop version, and is working with Groxis on a customized web-based version; for more info, go to: http://library.stanford.edu/about_sulair/special_projects/stanford_grokker.html
• Kartoo http://kartoo.com/
  KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm
• Whichbook http://www.whichbook.net/
  Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define.

Tagging (Folksonomies) Examples

• WorldCat Identities http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/
  Identities has a summary page for every person (and soon corporate body) based on information gleaned from WorldCat.
• OCLC Fiction Finder http://fictionfinder.oclc.org/
  FictionFinder is a prototype of OCLC Research that provides access to over 2.9 million records for books, eBooks, and audio materials tagged as fiction in OCLC WorldCat (including comics, dramas, novels, and short stories). FictionFinder provides a FRBR-inspired view of the data.
• PennTags http://tags.library.upenn.edu/
  PennTags is a social bookmarking tool for locating, organizing, and sharing your favorite online resources. Members of the Penn Community can collect and maintain URLs, links to journal articles, and records in Franklin, our online catalog and VCat, our online video catalog. Once these resources are compiled, you can organize them by assigning tags (free-text keywords) and/or by grouping them into projects, according to your specific preferences. PennTags can also be used collaboratively, because it acts as a repository of the varied interests and academic pursuits of the Penn community, and can help you find topics and users related to your own favorite online resources.

Other Examples In-house
University of Pennsylvania http://www.library.upenn.edu/'''\\ Search across different content groups and displays on a page.

PDA/SMS interfaces

• AirPAC (http://www.iii.com/mill/webopac.shtml#airpac) is Innovative's OPAC specially-designed for wireless devices (available as an add-on to regular OPAC). Many public and academic libraries are using it, including Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Baylor University.
• Other schools, like Ball State University, appear to have gone with in-house expertise to create mobile-friendly websites.

RSS

• Texas A & M University Libraries http://library.tamu.edu/portal/site/Library/
  RSS feeds for new books by location, LC call number, and type. Feeds also available for new databases and trial databases (login required for these last two).
• University of Alberta http://www.library.ualberta.ca/newbooks/index.cfm
  New Books RSS feeds by library or by LC call number.
• NCSU RSSfeed attached to the catalog lets you get a feed for any catalog search you perform: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/rss.html
• UCLA's New Book RSS Feeds http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/6453.cfm. UCLA is testing two options. Option A provides RSS feeds for nearly eighty subjects based on a combination of call numbers and keywords; the subjects are also correlated with UCLA departments and programs. Option B provides RSS feeds for twenty subjects based on Library of Congress classifications. Both are updated daily.