We recently had a visit from Serials Solutions staff to talk about
Summon. We are currently running an Endeca based catalog we call
Mango for 11 State University Libraries. We were told that there are
a couple of options for implementing Summon, one is to switch to their
interface and use it as your whole catalog, with articles metadata
integrated into your search results. The other option is to use their
API to integrate the article searching into your next-gen catalog.
This one was very interesting to us. I think there is a VuFind site
that is already working on doing this.
Jean
On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Hall, Jack wrote:
> Thank you, Andrew. I was asking for opinions because I have heard that
> our library is going to look into Summon. I will not be part of the
> decision or implementation.
>
> Jack
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Nagy
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:46 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: Summon, from Serials Solutions
>
> Hi Jack - I'd be happy to answer off-line any questions you might have
> in
> regards to Summon or how Summon might be incorporated into a
> Next-Generation
> Catalog (I work for Serials Solutions on the Summon team).
>
> I will also be speaking with Scott Garrison from Western Michigan
> University
> at LITA on our work on implementing Summon into VuFind.
>
> Take Care!
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Hall, Jack <jhall_at_uh.edu> wrote:
>
>> Has there been discussion on the list of the Summon library
>> interface,
>> From Serials Solutions? Does anybody have it, or have opinions on how
>> well it will solve our issues with providing access to resources?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jack Hall
>>
>> University of Houston Libraries
>>
>> jhall_at_uh.edu
>>
>
Jean Phillips
Manager, Aleph Services
Florida Center for Library Automation
jeanp_at_ufl.edu
Received on Tue Sep 29 2009 - 19:14:24 EDT