[WEB4LIB] RE: opacs for children

[Alain D. M. G. Vaillancourt]

Hello!

Several years ago I had the privilege of getting a personal demo of
PACE, the prototype OPAC Jamshed Beheshti developed with Andrew Large,
Mary Bialek and Valerie Large.  It was written in Visual Basic, I
think, and the graphics were relatively primitive compared to what we
see now on a few of the more advanced Web OPACs just coming out, but
the approach was novel and I have never seen anything yet which comes
close to it.  It offered a "natural" and gradual extension to existing
OPAC formats, in the form of book spines of correct height and a good
approximation of the thickness of each book, generated by taking
informatio from each MARC record.

They tested the system in the library of a secondary school, with good
results.

See:
Beheshti, J., V. Large, and M. Bialek. "Public access catalogue
extension (PACE): a browsable graphical interface." Information
Technology and Libraries. Vol. 15 No. 4 (1996): pp. 231-240.

Alain Vaillancourt


--- "Yu, Holly" <HYu3 at exchange.calstatela.edu> wrote:
> You can find Jamshid's presentation at the ALA/CLA joint conference =
> 2003 at
> http://www.calstatela.edu/library/ALA/ala-claOPAC.htm
> 
> You can also find other presentations from the same conference
> session =
> on
> OPAC interface design on this page.=20
> 
> Holly Yu
> Library Web Administrator / Reference Librarian
> University Library
> California State University, Los Angeles
> 5151 State University Dr.=20
> Los Angeles, CA 90032
> Tel: (323) 343-4993
> Fax: (323) 343-5600
> Email: hyu3 at calstatela.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Shochet [mailto:mshochet at ubalt.edu]=20
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:22 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: opacs for children
> 
> 
> A few years ago at an American Libraries Association/Canadian
> Libraries
> Association joint conference I saw a prof. Jamshid Beheshti of McGill
> University talk about work he was doing on designing interfaces for
> children.  His worked focused on the design of "portal" for children,
> =
> but I
> would think his research would be applicable to OPAC design as well.
> 
> He has a vitae, which includes citations of articles he has authored
> on
> designing web interfaces for children, available online:
> http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/Beheshti_CV.htm
> 
> Michael Shochet
> Systems/Reference Librarian
> Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore
> http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/
> mshochet at ubalt.edu
> 410-837-4277
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Janine Bendel
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:28 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] opacs for children
> 
> 
> Dear Ms. and Mr.,=20
> 
> I=B4m studying library science in berlin (germany) and at the moment
> =
> I=B4m
> writing my master thesis with the topic "opac=B4s for children". My
> aim =
> is an
> international comparison and as a basement I chose the "Best-
> Practice-Recherche" (Bertelsmann) with the following countries: USA,
> England, Denmark, Finland and Singapore. Till now I found predominant
> =
> eldery
> literature about these topic (f.e. "B=FCcherschatz" in Hamburg; =
> formerly
> studies: P. Solomon, V. Walter), not so much in the bibliographies =
> (LISA,
> LiLi) but also some interesting new projects in the internet (f.e. in
> Maryland and Denmark). I=B4ve also talked with many librarians and
> next =
> I=B4ll
> contact some software companies. Can anybody give me some more
> advices =
> or do
> you know persons to talk to for me?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> Janine Bendel
> 
> 
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