Access 2008

VUFind.  It is bult on the tradional LAMP stack with some Java Components.  The install looks straight forward (there is even an Ubuntu specific installation guide).  Some schools have put it into production. The Villanova instance is pretty neat.  The main drawback seems to be that it doesn't operate on live data.

A look at Primo at TUG.  The point of the exercise was not to replace the catalogue outright.  However a major criteria included in the search was that this new OPAC tool needed to be able to harvest data in ways other then Z39.50.  So XML & OAI for sure.    It looks like some schools have gone the way of the vendor solution for the discover layer instead of Open Source.

Program for Day 4

Begining in 2000 U of T needed to update the information contained in its Slide Library.  The project that came out of this initiative was called FADIS.  

The resulting digital repository seems like a much more impressive version of ARTstor.  Joining the project is also an option for schools not lucky enough to be U of T.  The platform is based on the same infrastructure that powers iTunes and the Apple Store.

Now, I've heard that OCLC has updated it's way of doing business since last I bothered to use WorldCat.   It looks like they have even adopted the social route... Share this via Digg.

Grid Services?  A set of API's for Libraries:

Evergreen.  It has been the word of the conference.

• An ILS
• It is scalable
• Open Standards
• C, Perl, PostGres
• Runs on your old Dell
• Perhaps too modular
• The install is a bit of a handful

But the Ontario implementation team is:

The talk followed the development of the University of Houston Libraries. As per usual, the perenial battle of website maintainence, and staff input was a hot topic.  So the solution was to CMS the whole site.  The term "universal decentralization" was used to describe the fact that the website content is totally in the hands of the Reference Librarians.  The site also has a steady amount of widgets and plugins.  A plugin worth looking at: WordPress Mu

LibX is great, great, great, browser extension.  Brock has implemented a good first edition of the toolbar.

A worldwind tour of Drupal implemetations in libraries:

University of Fairbanks Moviebank.  A drupal powered platform that links in catalogue info with amazon & rotten tomatoes to search the movie collection.  Built on a 4.X platform!

University of Mississippi - Gov't Docs portal, & Subject Resources.

University of Rochester - Total site redesign, currently in alpha.

London Public Library - powers the main site.

McMaster University - Digital collections portal

 Program for Day 3