IUG Meeting: Wednesday
This week, I am in Washington DC at the IUG meeting.
Today, I attended the following sessions:
"Now What Should We Do With Our WebPAC? Can We Make it Relevant in a Web 2.0 World?" The presenter had many ideas for making the web catalog friendlier to those accustomed to a web 2.0 experience. Some of the ideas presented were: Hide the catalog by using Innovative’s Encore product to access the OPAC’s data through a Web 2.0-type interface while treating the catalog records as a source for additional data. Enhance the catalog by enabling it to guide users to resources outside the library’s print collection. Electronic databases and other libraries’ collections were two of the "outside resources" mentioned. Some of Innovative Interfaces’ enhancements that seemed particularly interesting were: Spell-check, Patron Reviews, and RSS Catalog feeds. Link to Handouts (Password Required)
"Data Cleanup: How to Find Bad Data and How to Correct it and Why this is Important for the Health of Your System" The presenter gave many helpful hints for finding and correcting bad data in the catalog record. Some methods included searching the beginnings and ends of call number ranges, running lists of items with incorrect codes (e.g. a reference item with a status of “check shelves” instead of “library use only”), and making the fields with errors display in obnoxiously bright colors. Link to Handouts (Password Required)
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