> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:43 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Open Source OPAC - VUFind Beta Released
>
> All very nice and appealing, thanks for all the effort.
> Only - where are the browsing lists of LCSH, authors' names and titles?
> Thomas Mann recently made it very clear that no good catalog should
> be without the option of browsing.
At the current moment, you can browse by clicking on the "Browse the Catalog" link in the footer of the page.
What that does is views the top 10 of a few categories. Trust me when I say: you do not want to have a list of all of the authors from your catalog. It will be a mile long. :)
But VuFind is open source ... it is up to the community to make it better.
>
> "The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and
> Scholarship in Research Libraries"
> http://guild2910.org/Peloponnesian%20War%20June%2013%202007.pdf
>
> I understand that VuFind relies on the real catalogs it accesses via
> "drivers". So, if a target catalog doesn't have browse lists,
> VuFind cannot provide them? Or does it do its own indexing?
>
VuFind does not rely on catalog and that is one of the core foundations of the system. It has it's own index. However an implementation of VuFind would be rather basic with out a catalog for it to connect to. This is where the drivers come into play. The catalog supplies real time status information on the records. Also the ability to hold or recall an item.
Hope this clears things up
Andrew
Received on Fri Jul 20 2007 - 08:17:43 EDT