The State Library of Tasmania has just gone fully live with our new
faceted catalogue, based on the Verity search engine. It's been quite a
long road(!), but it's finally in production. Our main issue has been
ensuring that the source catalogue data is of consistent quality to
produce clean and effective facets. The State Library of Tasmania runs
the public and reference library network for the whole state, and the
new catalogue has proved very popular with our clients as we've
gradually rolled it out. We've followed a progressive release process,
where we have asked our clients to comment on the new style catalogue
and suggest improvements. Responding to these suggestions has also
added to our development time, but we are now that much more confident
we have something that actually workds for our clients.
As far as we know, we're the first major library system in Australia to
go with a faceted catalogue. Please have a look if you get the chance.
http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Jan Lavelle
Senior Librarian (Systems Development)
State Library of Tasmania
91 Murray Street, Hobart 7000
Phone: 03 6233 4956
Fax: 03 6231 0927
Email : Jan.Lavelle_at_education.tas.gov.au
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