McDreamy OPAC:

Creating a Vision for Next Generation Search Tools

Is McDreamy

the missing link?

YES!

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library.

westervillelibrary.org

Enriched content.

DECOUPLED.

Customize.

Web Integration.

Get into the

driver’s seat!

(On a dark and stormy night!)

PHOTO CREDIT: J.J. Verhoef, Flickr.

The Search Discovery Platform: A Visual Representation

PHOTO CREDIT: Kevin Dooley, Flickr.

Clouds WEATHER WARNING:

No two clouds

are exactly alike. (Discovery vs Refinement)

Opposites Aquabrower > Discover Encore > Refine

PHOTO CREDIT: Stuck in Customs, Flickr.

Relevance

PHOTO CREDIT: Sarah Parrott, Flickr.

Tagging

PHOTO CREDIT: Bern@t, Flickr.

Harvesting

PHOTO CREDIT: Annetta82, Flickr.

Facets

Marketplace Explosion

The Search Discovery Market

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library.

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Endeca, ProFind. NC State.

WorldCatLocal, OCLC. Washington State University.

AquaBrowser, MediaLab Solutions. Queens Public & Columbus Metropolitan.

Encore, III. Westerville Public Library.

Primo, ExLibris. Vanderbilt U.

The Founders (before 2007):

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library.

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Enterprise, SirsiDynix. San Diego Public Library.

Destiny Quest, Follett. Creekview HS in GA.

LS2 PAC, TLC.Terrebonne Public Library, LA.

The New Dependent Kids (2008):

VTLS, Visualizer.

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library.

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Ann Arbor Public Library.III wrapped in Drupal.

University-Funded open source projects:Solrpac, Miami U. VUFind, Villanova U.Blacklight, U of Virginia

Polaris’s PowerPAC.Koha, LibLime.Athens Co Public Library.

The Ones to Watch:

The Three Step Program on Developing a Vision for Search

Play, play, play!

Go spend an hour on Amazon, followed by half an hour on Flickr, followed by…. (you get the idea!)

Make friends with a cataloger

Data is powerful!

Go work the reference desk

Get to know the users!

Ten Trends to Watch

It’s a Go, Go World

WorldCat Mobile:

www.worldcat.org/m

(Find a WorldCat library near you …)

Voice to Search

SpinVox

www.spinvox.com

Converts spoken word to textApplications: Voicemail, Blogging, Texting, Memos, etc.

Visual Pattern Recognition

Snaptell

www.snaptell.com

A marketing spin, but potential for libraries is unlimited.

Face Recognition Search

Riya beta: Visual Search

www.riya.com

Sophisticated person recognition software.

Social SearchStumbleUpon

www.stumbleupon.com

Recommends websites you might like based on your recommendations, people you like and identified interests.

{Amazon model}

FRBRFunctional

Requirements for Bibliographic

Records

Amazon gets it!

Library Thing gets it, too!

Deliverable Content

Searching isn’t just for fun!

No really, it isn’t!

NetFlixiTunesKindle

eReaderiPhone

Widgets

DEFINED: a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed

within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring

additional compilation.

Share

Enriched Content

Syndetics ICELibrary Thing for LibrariesVideo DetectiveBrodart’s Web LinksFlickr APIs

Google Books!books.google.com

Influence your vendor

• Before you sign

• Development partner

• Beta tester

I wish our OPAC was

more like _______

because ________.

Questions?

Presentation is available at: slideshare.com/weithman

Thank you!

Jessi Crim-Weithman

Associate Director of Support Services

Westerville Public Library

126 S. State St., Westerville, OH 43081

Email: Jessi at westervillelibrary.org