Some more information about the State Library of Tasmania's catalogue
redesign can be found in the following:
A conference paper given by Lloyd Sokvitne in September 2006
http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/documents/Sokvitne.doc
A podcast by Lloyd Sokvitne at a Feb 2006 conference, available at the
URL
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006/prog2006.htm
And an article by Lloyd Sokvitne in Australian Academic and Research
Libraries 37(4) Dec 2006, which is not yet available online but will
eventually become so at http://alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/
These won't answer all your questions, but they give a good sense of
SLT's approach.
Rachel Salmond
Schools Catalogue Information Service
Curriculum Corporation
Level 5, 2 Casselden Place
Melbourne, Vic 3000
Phone: +61 3 92079602
Email: Rachel.Salmond_at_curriculum.edu.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Suzanne Picken
Sent: Friday, 13 July 2007 12:50 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Congratulations!: [NGC4LIB] Faceted catalogue in
Australia
I am glad you sent this to the list as I believe we would all love to
know the answers to the questions you've posed. If Jan would reply to
the list I fell that would be a great service to us.
Thanks so much!
Suzanne Picken
ILS Specialist
WashingtonResearch Library Consortium
Hamilton, Gill wrote:
>Hi Jan
>
>I'm Gill, Systems Librarian at the National Library of Scotland. I was
>interested to see and play with your new catalogue - it's very clean,
>clear and easy to navigate. Congratulations! Here at NLS we are just
>commencing a project to explore resource discovery solutions and one
>area we were going to look at was how to make the searching more
>intuitive / easier for our customers just like you have done. I have a
>few questions for you if you have time:
>
>1. What is the underlying software that you are using for your new
>catalogue ?
>2. Is your catalogue data harvested or is the searching being
>undertaken on the live version ? If it's a harvested version how often
>do you update your data ? If it's harvested how do you address the
>issue of copy information being out of date.
>3. When your customers place a reservation does the "look and feel" of
>the system persist (I've seen some catalogues where you are dropped
>back in to the native interface of the traditional OPAC) 4. How did you
>engage your customers for feedback and comments as you
>developed the system ? Questionnaires ? Usability labs ?
>5. Do you plan to integrate other datasets in to this new catalogue
>(e.g. digital image databases, other catalogues etc) 6. Do you have any
>plans for future development ? Or maybe you are taking a well deserved
>rest! :-)
>
>Very best wishes from the other side of the world :-) Gill
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>Gill Hamilton
>Systems Librarian
>National Library of Scotland
>George IV Bridge
>Edinburgh EH1 1EW
>Scotland, UK
>e: g.hamilton_at_nls.uk
>t: +44 (0)131-623 3774 (desk)
>t: +44 (0)7795 456348 (mobile)
>w: http://www.nls.uk
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Lavelle, Jan
>Sent: 12 July 2007 01:38
>To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
>Subject: [NGC4LIB] Faceted catalogue in Australia
>
>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
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 12 2007 - 17:38:29 EDT