Re: ANN: University of Michigan Live vuFind beta!

From: Melody McMahon <mmcmahon_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:23:34 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sorry to post to entire list, but Bill's email is not showing up here.
Where does the information about Academic disciplines comes from?

Melody

-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:29 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] ANN: University of Michigan Live vuFind beta!

The University of Michigan University Libraries has gone live with a beta
installation of vuFind, currently branded as "Mirlyn2-Beta" to differentiate
it from our existing OPAC interface, Mirlyn. You can take a look at

  http://mirlyn2-beta.lib.umich.edu/

We've added several enhancements:

  - Spellcheck when there are no results (possible because we use  a recent
Solr nightly) -- try searching on 'minnesoa'
  - Extraction of search specifications into an external file for easier
tweaking
  - Integration of UMich's "High Level Browse" subject headings (seen here
as the "Academic Discipline" facet)
  - Inlining of more extensive, real-time availability information in search
results
  - Reworked Refworks export

Any comments or bug reports can be sent to me or, even better, via the "Tell
us what you think" button in the upper-right corner.

Thanks to everyone in all the various communities that have offered help and
feedback!

  -Bill-


-- 
Bill Dueber
Library Systems Programmer
University of Michigan Library
Received on Wed Feb 11 2009 - 13:25:26 EST