[Metadatalibrarians] ALA session on extended service in library catalogs

[Suzanne R. Graham]

Widely cross posted with apologies

You've found it, now what?! : Extended Services in Next Generation
Catalogs

LITA Next Generation Catalog IG session at ALA Annual on 
Monday, June 28, 2010, 1:30-3:30pm, HIL-Columbia 8

Discovery is not the only problem to be solved.  Patrons need other
services and tools to use the information they find, such as assisting
users with capturing, storing, manipulating, and sharing information.
There will be presentations and discussion on a variety of extended
applications to the catalog, such as the Social Online Public Access
Catalog (SOPAC).  A brief IG business meeting will precede the
presentations.

Eric Lease Morgan - Services Against Texts: The Next Next-Generation
Library Catalog

With the advent of the Internet and wide-scale availability of full-text
content, people are overwhelmed with the amount of accessible data and
information. Library catalogs can only go so far when it comes to
delimiting what is relevant and what is not.  Even when the most exact
searches return 100's of hits what is a person to do? Services against
texts -- digital humanities computing techniques -- represent a possible
answer. Whether the content is novels, works of literature, or scholarly
journal articles the methods of the digital humanities can provide ways to
compare & contrast, analyze, and make more useful any type of content.
This presentation elaborates on these ideas and describes how they can be
integrated into the "next, next-generation library catalog".

John Blyberg - SOPAC 2.1: Digital Strategy for the New Library

The Social Catalog Application Suite, SOPAC, is not just another next-gen
discovery interface.  It is a comprehensive approach to designing the
digital library user experience.  By integrating the discovery layer with
the content management system, Drupal, SOPAC effectively put the control
over user experience design back in the hands of librarians while
providing a solution that is designed for users.  Find out what SOPAC is,
how it works, and what's new in the latest version, 2.1.

Tim Spalding - LibraryThing After Discovery

LibraryThing, the social cataloging website for book lovers, is a great
way to find new books, but most of the interesting stuff happens after you
get the book and put it in your personal library. Tim will show
LibraryThing's post-discovery features, including a just-released ground
breaking new way to discuss books with other readers.


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Ray Schwartz, Systems Specialist Librarian             schwartzr2 at wpunj.edu
David and Lorraine Cheng Library                       Tel: +1 973 720-3192
William Paterson University                            Fax: +1 973 720-2585
300 Pompton Road                                       Mobile: +1 201 424-4491
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Suzanne R. Graham
Cataloging Services Librarian
Alexander Campbell King Library
University of Georgia Law School
706-542-5082