I'm a long-term lurker on this list and the director of the library at Villanova, where we initiated the VuFInd project. I like what Eric has written below. We are planning a VuFind interest group meeting at Mid-Winter. We have a room and a time (10:30 a.m. on Saturday). More details when ALA Midwinter is closer upon us. While I obviously have a great interest in encouraging uptake and engagement with VuFind, I would be happy to have that gathering also serve the function of a general meeting of the minds around open source NGCs and related initiatives. The "social functionality" asepct is critical. I think the more collaboration and cross-pollination we can get in this arena, the faster the tools will develop and the better they'll be.
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Joe Lucia
University Librarian
Villanova University
610-519-4290
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:57 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [NGC4LIB] building communities
At the risk of looking like I'm just trying to fill a void, I have
been thinking about building communities and "next generation"
library catalogs.
More specifically, I'm wondering how groups of people interested in
this issue can *physically* get together to discuss the issues. Ther3
have been a number of symposiums across the United States relating to
this topic. A number of virtual interest groups have formed, this
mailing list being one of them. There are a number of large-scale
investigations taking place as well as a number of smaller ones.
Technical solutions both open source and proprietary have presented
themselves.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 15:45:17 EST