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Education Services Australia What place the OPAC in the future of resource discovery for education? Reconsidering the OPAC

Reconsidering OPAC

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What is the place of the OPAC in the future of resource discovery for education? Slides for hands-on workshop tour of OPAC as a resource discovery interface. Participants evaluate aspects of their school’s resource discovery service, and discuss how the OPAC meets the needs of their school community.

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Page 1: Reconsidering OPAC

Education Services Australia

What place the OPAC in the future of resource discovery for education?

Reconsidering the OPAC

Page 2: Reconsidering OPAC

1. Evaluate what we do now

2. Tour the search landscape

3. Describe the future

Do students and teachers need a school-based search tool?

Page 3: Reconsidering OPAC

School search test

where is the Year 9 maths exam from 2009?

find a class photo of 2011 school leavers when they entered the school.

who is the career counsellor at my child’s school?

does this school have a copy of Romeo and Juliet on video?

how do my students access DataGenie?

Page 4: Reconsidering OPAC

Learning architecture principlesa consistent experience for staff, students, parents and communities

access anytime, anywhere, by those who need the information

an authoritative source for each item of information

a capability for self-service MCEETYA 2003

Page 6: Reconsidering OPAC

Purpose of OPAC

Location tool: find a known resource

Information finding tool: find topic information

Learning and literacy tool: meet learning needs

Asset management tool: manage resources

Selection tool: find resources to obtain/buy

Search

Page 8: Reconsidering OPAC

Criteria for OPAC

Access

Anywhere, anytime

Personalised

Mobile devices

Search interface

Intuitive

Branded

Context-aware

Search functionality

Did you mean?

Phrase search

Predictive terms

Results display

Faceted

Relevance & sort

No dead leads

Page 9: Reconsidering OPAC

Review OPACS

scis.edublogs.org

Scroll down right hand side column to

School Libraries

OPAC workshop

Add your wishlist items to the Wallwisher

www.wallwisher.com/wall/opacwish