ALA MIDWINTERUpdate on Industry, Systems, and Discovery

Marshall BreedingIndependent Consult, Author, Founder and Publisher, Library Technology Guideswww.librarytechnology.org/twitter.com/mbreeding

08 February 2013 ALA Midwinter Technology Wrap-up

Mergers and Acquisitions

No earth-shattering announcements ProQuest acquires Ebook Library (EBL)

and will combine with ebrary Some organizational consolidation

Innovative Interfaces: Remaining shares of founder acquired by private equity investors

Library Services Platforms

Many well into production mode: Sierra: ~100 libraries in Production OCLC WorldShare Management Services: ~ 100 Ex Libris Alma: ~5 in production

Still in development Serials Solutions Intota Kuali OLE

New round of funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New entrant:

VTLS Open Skies: company morphing its current line of products into a comprehensive platform based on SOA

Integrated Library Systems

Evolutionary development Appropriate infrastructure for public

libraries New emphasis on deep integration with

external systems and services E-book lending services Web-scale discovery indexes

E-Book integration

Develop technologies that bring the e-book lending within the experience of the local library

Offer the same functionality for e-books within online catalogs, discovery services, and the library’s general Web presence as offered for print versions

Provide the same level of mastery and control Don’t eject library users to the mercy of

native e-book lending platforms

Basic expectations:

Discovery of e-books within the same search results as other library materials Load records for e-books into ILS or discovery service

Display current availability status of e-books and request to be placed in hold queue Real-time interactions with e-book lending platform

Patron can view status of e-book loans from their library account or profile Real-time interactions between e-book lending platform and local ILS

Patrons can activate loan request from library’s own catalog or discovery Ability to fully interact with e-book lending platform via API

Don’t force patrons to have (or know that they have) a separate account for the e-book lending platform or DRM utility Leverage the username and PIN/password used for other library activities

Consistent with ReadersFirst Content Access Requirements http://readersfirst.org/ReadersFirst-Content-Access-Requirements.pdf

E-book APIs

Application Programming Interface OverDrive API

Earlier pragmatic (screen-scraping) attempts by third parties to integrate e-book lending experience

Announced intent to release API in May 2012

3m Cloud Library Baker & Taylor Axis 360

OverDrive API

https://developer.overdrive.com/ APIs offered:

Library Account API Retailer Account API Search API

https://developer.overdrive.com/apis/search

Metadata API Library Availability API

Not offered: API to perform e-book loans

Checkout Return

Integration Partnerships

Polaris Library Systems 3M Cloud Library (In production: Sno-Isle

Libraries) SirsiDynix eResource Central

Axis 360, Recorded Books, OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library

The Library Corporation LS2 PAC: Place Holds and check out e-books

(3M, OverDrive, Axis 360) BiblioCommons

3M Cloud Library, OverDrive

Metadata for e-book collectionsThe Library Corporation

eBiblioFile service to deliver catalog records to support e-book lending

Rapid delivery of MARC records for OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library, Axis 360

OCLC WorldShare Metadata collection management

Discovery

Web-scale discovery maturing after 4 years Summon announced at 2009 ALA Midwinter

Index-based discovery covers a critical mass of library collections Some publishers still do not participate fully New content announcements made regularly, especially including

specialized and regional content resources Ongoing Technology Improvements

Summon Spotlighting Recommends specialized resources, based on specific trigger worlds in

query Primo ScholarRank

Integration initiatives EBSCO: EDS integration

SirsiDynix eResource Central Innovative Interfaces Encore OCLC WorldShare Platform.

Social infrastructure

BiblioCommons Polaris partnership with ChiliFresh to

create Social PAC through deep integration through APIs

Beyond Discovery: Comprehensive Library Web Presence

BiblioCommons partnership with Chicago Public Library to

extend its technology to create an entirely new Web site with associated services

Infor Iguana – fully managed library Web site services in addition to modern discovery interface capabilities

Axiell Arena

Library Services Platforms

Ongoing progress on the new Library Services Platforms: Intota, Alma, Sierra.

Analytics: tools to enable data-driven libraries

Innovative’s Decision Central

Intota Assessment First module of Intota to be delivered in 2013

EnvisionWare Enterprise Reporter