NGC4LIBers,
The DLF needs your input!
The ILS Discovery Interface Task Force, convened by the Digital Library
Federation (DLF), is studying the discovery needs of research libraries
and their patrons, in order to recommend interfaces to the ILS that
discovery applications can use. We want to know what kinds of discovery
applications (outside the traditional ILS public access catalog) are
most needed in libraries, and where machine-accessible interfaces (APIs)
to the ILS and its data can better support these applications.
We'd like your help with this. We've created a survey that you, as well
as other appropriate people in your libraries, can fill out, to give us
a better idea of the functional needs your library has, the discovery
applications you're using or considering adopting at your library, and
the technical infrastructure you're using or wanting to meet your needs.
Thanks to DLF support, we have this survey posted on SurveyMonkey, and
we invite you to fill it out. You're welcome to have multiple people at
your library submit it(which may be useful if you have different people
thinking about functional requirements vs. technical infrastructure), or
you can collaborate on a single submission. The survey consists of 19
questions, and can be found at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o1Kkl8qUfrmJ9sI4UNVnLQ_3d_3d
We will be meeting later this month to start drafting a set of
recommendations for APIs to the ILS, so we're on a fairly fast timeline.
For your response to be considered in our drafting, you need to respond
by *next Friday, September 14*.
We may post aggregated results and anonymized comments from the survey,
but nothing from the survey where particular respondents or libraries
can be identified. Based on the results of this survey and our own
activities, we hope to present and hold an open discussion of a draft
proposal for ILS and discovery application integration at the upcoming
DLF Fall Forum in Philadelphia in November.
You can check out our wiki for more details about the task force
https://project.library.upenn.edu/confluence/display/ilsapi/Home
We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your help!
Dianne McCutcheon
Member, DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force
Received on Fri Sep 07 2007 - 14:16:52 EDT