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Mike CurtisSystems Librarian

Broome Community Collegecurtis_m@sunybroome.edu

607-778-5609

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Situation/Problem/Opportunity: The interlibrary loan consortia, Information Delivery

Services (IDS), provides excellent delivery service for library materials among consortia members. However, there is no discovery service that allows library patrons to search the combined collections of the IDS consortia.

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Purpose Statement (Goals): IDS Search will provide patrons a well designed,

relevance ranking discovery tool that simultaneously searches the IDS member library collections.

Enrichment of the search results with additional data (i.e. Google Books) or services (i.e. ILLiad) will be seamlessly integrated.

Search scoping allowing the patron to seamlessly search and easily recognize search results on the local, consortial, and national/world-wide levels.

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Methods Search of library holdings based on OCLC WorldCat

API Additional systems

Aleph Screen scraping & x-server

(OpenURL linking into) ILLiad Google Books for cover images Yahoo! Spellcheck OCLC xISBN

Languages used: PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS

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Proof of Concept Development Team (Spring 2009) Technical Group

Adam Traub, (VZJ) Saint John Fisher College Andy Perry, (ZLM) SUNY New Paltz Michael Mulligan, (VYQ) Upstate Medical Center

Usability Group Emily Hart, (VYQ) Upstate Medical Center Katie Sacco, (XFM) SUNY Fredonia Diane Madrigal, (NYG) New York State Library

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Benefits of a custom search interface Flexibility

Quick development Respond to user needs Open standards Collaborate with others

Low cost (but not free) Drawbacks

Dependent on third party APIs Programming skills/participation

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Interface features Relevance ranking Spellcheck Real time circ status on results page Abstract/summary on results page Direct links on metadata (author, subject words, etc.) Direct OpenURL linking into ILLiad, etc. Facebook/Twitter links Citation links Google Books previews Four search scopes Search results as RSS feeds OpenSearch browser plugin

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Online demos

http://www.sunybroome.edu/s/start.php?oclc_symbol=YSY&search_scope=group&group_member[0]=YSY&group_member[1]=BNG

http://www.sunybroome.edu/library/search/projects/ids/form.php?oclc_symbol=YSY

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Hosting and Development IDS and OLIS exploring central hosting options

“Standalone” i.e. ready-to-use, no set up required version for all members will be centrally hosted

Target go live date: January 2010 Local CSS and “branding” options in config

Open Source project Will be a open source framework Download, edit, and host locally Edit and submit to central hosted service

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Questions & discussion...