Why you shouldn't bother with advanced search

Joint Information Systems Committee

Presenter or main title…

Session Title or subtitle…

7th April, 2011 – INF11 programme meeting

Ben Showers, Programme Manager

Digital Infrastructure

Library Management Systems Programme

Learning the lessons of the JISC Library Management Systems Programme.

Or:

Why you shouldn’t bother with advanced search

Library Management Systems Programme

Reallocation of scarce (institutional) funds from costly redundant, legacy services and systems to those next generation services that represent the future of teaching and research

Themes...

Usability and user testing

Open source software and

systems

Search Functionality

Electronic Resource

management

Web widgets and mobile interfaces

Core library management

systems

Open Source...#CReDUAL (University of Sussex)...

Step-by-step implementation of VuFindConnecting VuFind to Talis for holdings data

Installing VuFind and Blacklight

#OSSviab (University of Swansea)...

Exploring the viability of open source LMS EvergreenThe UK Core Specification (UKCS v3) has now been

released under a creative commons licence

(Shared) Electronic Resource Management...

Salford ERM implementation:

Developed a single ERM process map which documents all of their e-resources processes.

JISC/SCONUL requirements for a shared ERM system:

16 participating institutions Use cases collected and blogged

£600k secured from HEFCE to develop a Shared ERM

Mobile and web widgets...

University of Cambridge Library (#culwidgets)

• Embedding access to content in social networking sites and VLEs.• Developed a comprehensive resource for otherInstitutions to exploit.

University of East Anglia (#UEAWolfie)

• Embedding library services in Facebook

Opportunity to rethink services; not simply adapt them for mobile access...

Advanced search is hard to get right - Really hard

Mind your language...

Users will challenge your assumptions

‘Tagging’ doesn’t work within the library environment

Users don’t know what we’re talking about

Technology led – not evidenceBased (?)

More information...

http://lmsmash.blogspot.com/2011/03/final-curtain.html

Project synthesis report and project directory