Ranny LacanientaDirector, Academic Product Strategy

SirsiDynix

Today’s forecast for your campus: BLUEcloud!

• MOOCs and online education

• Class size/budget cuts • leading to high faculty::student ratios (fewer research assignments)

• Fewer resources (collection, personnel, programs/professional dev)

• Declining circulation/gate counts

• Library space experimentation

Top Academic Library Challenges

• New initiatives and collaborative opportunities

• Cooperative roles for researchers, repositories and journal

publishers

• Partnerships related to discovery and re-use of data

• Open access

• Open education (OERs)

Top Academic Trends

Source: acrl.org

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BLUEcloud:/blo͞o-kloud/ (n.)

Powerful, next-generation,

web-based platform that works

with both Horizon and Symphony and

uses a Service Oriented Architecture.

Best-of-Breed:/blo͞o-kloud/ (adj.)

An open software development

approach focused on choice,

flexibility, and connectivity.

It’s all about:

Integration

Extensibility

Connectivity

Openness

Flexibility

Expandability

Partnerships and Alliances

Ken Chad, “Rethinking the Library Systems Platform” Jan 2016

No single vendor will be able to develop

all the applications necessary to meet

the requirements of a library

—and librarians like to see choice in

the market.

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The All-in-one Approach

All-in-one Caution: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

The Best-of-breed Approach

Use the best

tool for the

job

BLUEcloudHow to get to

No Migration

Keep your same database

Leave your data untouched

Retain your integrations

Choose your pace

No Migration

Keep your same database

Leave your data untouched

Retain your integrations

Choose your pace

You are herealready

You don’t move to BLUEcloud…

comes to you.

Library Services Platform (LSP)

• Cloud-based

Library Services Platform (LSP)

• Cloud-based

• Multitenant

Library Services Platform (LSP)

• Cloud-based

• Multitenant

• Offers API/Web Services

Library Services Platform (LSP)

• Cloud-based

• Multitenant

• Offers API/Web Services

• Integrates physical and electronic resources

Physical Electronic

True Open PlatformAs a true open platform, BC Campus offers a complete package using

• Existing java apps

True Open PlatformAs a true open platform, BC Campus offers a complete package using

• Existing java apps

• New web apps

True Open PlatformAs a true open platform, BC Campus offers a complete package using

• Existing java apps

• New web apps

• Integrated open source apps

True Open PlatformAs a true open platform, BC Campus offers a complete package using

• Existing java apps

• New web apps

• Integrated open source apps

• Third-party partner apps

SirsiDynix & EBSCO Strategic Partnership

The world’s most comprehensive eJournal content plugged into the world’s most robust Discovery platform

Why Partner with EBSCO?

Size matters

EBSCO is the largest

intermediary between

publishers and content

providers. EDS includes

content from over 22,000

publishers

Metadata matters

EBSCO does more

metadata enhancement

than any other discovery

provider.

• Robust subject indexing for

precision

• Full-Text searching for

completeness

Technology

matters

• Robust and complete

API

• Superior Relevance

Ranking

• Superior Value Ranking

BLUEcloud CampusOpen Platform for Best-of-Breed Integration

BLUEcloud Campus

Campus ConnectionBLUEcloud plugins for Student Information Systems, Learning Management Systems, and more

BLUEcloud Campus

AcquisitionsIntegration with electronic & physical suppliers for selection, ordering, invoicing, and payment

BLUEcloud Campus

DiscoveryAPI/Web Services for third party discovery services

BLUEcloud Campus

Metadata ResourcesResources for copy cataloging and database enrichment services

BLUEcloud Campus

Interlibrary LoanDiscovery, Widgets, NCIP, and API/Web Services integration for ILL & Document Delivery services

BLUEcloud Campus

eResourcesDiscovery, Acquisitions, and Knowledge Base Integration for electronic resources

BLUEcloud Campus

CommerceAPI/Web Services eCommerce and Retail Purchase services for Discovery and Circulation

BLUEcloud Campus

Digital Archives & Institutional RepositoriesDiscovery integration using OAI-PMH and API/Web Services

Analytics• Cloud based• Auto-harvest of catalog data• Drag & Drop analytics• Output in multiple formats• Subscriptions to reports• Easy drill-down, filtering,

graphs, sorting, etc.• Import local databases• Includes support for tablets

and smartphones• Import 3rd party data

Linked Data

• Underlying BLUEcloud database will be transformed to Linked Data (BibFrame)

• SD ILS databases will remain MARC-native

• Phase 1: BLUEcloud Visibility

• Phase 2: CloudSource

DiscoveryBookMyne(+)

Enterprise

PAC

Portfolio

Social Library

StaffAnalytics

Acquisitions

Cataloging

Central

Circulation

MobileCirc

Serials

MarketplaceCloudSource

Community Funded Services

eResource Central

eResource Management

Interlibrary Loan

Lists

Visibility

BLUEcloud

Horizon Symphony

DiscoveryBookMyne(+)

Enterprise

PAC

Portfolio

Social Library

StaffAnalytics

Acquisitions

Cataloging

Central

Circulation

MobileCirc

Serials

ConnectionsCloudSource

Community Funded Services

eResource Central

eResource Management

Interlibrary Loan

Lists

Visibility

BLUEcloud

eRc Vendors

9,000,000+ titles available

1,000,000+ patron downloads

Makes your collection visible where patrons and students are looking—the internet.

BLUEcloud Visibility

BLUEcloud Visibility• 23 Customers live

• Collections of over 13 Million catalog records

• Transformed to Over 95 Million BIBFRAME resources

• If all of you were live on BC Visibility….

Over 20 Trillion BIBFRAME resources!

Early Impact Metrics• 3 customers with Google Analytics data

• Approximately 300,000 patrons

• Connected 9,000 search engine users to the catalog

• 91% are new visitors to the catalog

BLUECLOUD VISIBILITY

And now,

Where do we go from here?

Our connections...

ContentConnections

Library Connections

PartnerConnections

Library Connections

PartnerConnections

ContentConnections

ContentConnections

ContentConnections

Library Connections

PartnerConnections

Web

makes these Connections possible.

APIs &Web Services

Open.

Flexible.

Web

Direction of BLUEcloud. This is the

Thank you.