[Web4lib] Re: RE: MyLibrary-LIKE: tried iPortal? (Web4lib Digest,
Vol 7, Issue 16)
Nanette Sweetser
NSWEETSE at usc.edu.au
Tue Oct 18 19:30:06 EDT 2005
RE: >We are about to undertake a library web redesign. Over time we have seen
>people discuss uses of MyLibrary-like applications to provide better
>user-centered library services. (Charlie McNeil)
Hi Charlie
Have you thought of iPortal? see website http://www.igroupsonline.com/iPortal/
add to it access to wikis/blogs set up by users and/or staff for various purposes/functions
cheers
Nan
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Today's Topics:
1. Web conferencing online orientation sessions (Lori Bell)
2. RE: MyLibrary-LIKE: Who, What, Where? (Charlie McNeil)
3. USA Today article on Google Print (Sloan, Bernie)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:23:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lori Bell <lbell927 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Web conferencing online orientation sessions
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Greetings! Interested in inexpensive but excellent web
conferencing options to offer programs, training and
more for your staff and customers?
OPAL Coordinator Tom Peters has scheduled two
OPAL orientation sessions this week you are invited to
attend. They last one hour and will give you the
basics on how to use the TC Conferencing software to
have an online meeting or program. If these times do
not work for you, contact Tom at
tapinformation at yahoo.com or me and
we will set up something else.
To participate, all
you need is an Internet connection, sound card and
speakers. Go to
http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=67955673&p=0
type your name and click enter to go into the online
room.
If you would like a trial room, contact Tom or me and
we can set one up for you. You can use these rooms for
meetings, online training sessions, discussion groups,
to create online tutorials, and more. You can record
sessions and make them available on the web or as a
podcast. If you have any questions, please contact
us. Hope to see you at one of these orientations.
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Moderators
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events and want to learn more about how to use version
4 of tcConference software for OPAL events, this
session is for you. Numerous tips and techniques for
customizing and optimizing the OPAL online experience
will be shared.
This OPAL event will be held in the Auditorium.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:27:27 -0400
From: "Charlie McNeil" <umassdlcc at umassd.edu>
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] MyLibrary-LIKE: Who, What, Where?
To: "'John Fereira'" <jaf30 at cornell.edu>, <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Message-ID: <20051018032728.49A21328614 at mail.umassd.edu>
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John -
Thanks much for the informative reply.
We've setup a test MyLibrary configuration and Eric has been very kind in
answering some of our questions.
I thought I had found most every article/presentation on MyLibrary, but I
had somehow missed your presentation and the accompanying PDF.
Just from the outside, it "looks" like many libraries are using some sort of
database-based website. It's just hard to tell how many are MyLibrary-like
in their approach. Others are CMS-based, but that too is hard to tell (we've
looked at quite a few - Mambo/joomla and Drupal the latest). I would guess a
few are a mix of CMS and MyLibrary - wish I knew which ;-) uPortal seems
like another step up in capability and technical expertise needed to
implement. Dunno. Will explore further.
Many thanks for the reply! It really is much appreciated.
- Charlie
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From: John Fereira [mailto:jaf30 at cornell.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 11:41 AM
To: UMassDLCC at umassd.edu; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] MyLibrary-LIKE: Who, What, Where?
At 02:06 PM 10/16/2005, Charlie McNeil wrote:
>All -
>
>
>
>We are about to undertake a library web redesign. Over time we have seen
>people discuss uses of MyLibrary-like applications to provide better
>user-centered library services. Some focus on the MY part and allow users
to
>build there own resource pages; some focus on being able to push content in
>context such as reserve reading lists and subject guides to courses in an
>LMS such as WebCT. User centered and reusability/adaptability seem to be
the
>key features.
Greetings,
About five years ago I was one of two developer that created a MyLibrary
system here at Cornell. In our case, we separated the MyLibrary system
into a set of services, initially just a virtual bookmark manager with
linking into the networked resources (i.e. online databases, journals) and
a Current Awareness service which provided patrons a list of titles based
on subject criteria via email. We subsequently added a Table of Contents
service (which aggregates feeds from multiple vendors and provides the TOC
in multiple formats (i.e. text, html, endnote, refworks). Just prior to
the release of that system the other programmer left the library so I've
had responsibility for all of the services ever since. All that said, if I
were to create a new MyLibrary system I would first look at the work that
Eric Lease Morgan did with his open source version
(http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/).
>What we are wondering is who is actually using these applications and to
>what purposes? Is it just a few with larger tech staffs or are there many
>that just do it with little fanfare. We have a small systems staff, but we
>too want to create an environment that is user-centered and enables the
user
>to get their work done in the best way possible.
We've done some user statistics collection and found that the services are
mostly used by faculty, staff, and graduate students.
>We have such a mix of systems that there is an obvious need to somehow pull
>it all together better. For example, like many others, we have a library
>website, an OPAC (Endeavor), an eReserve system (Docutek), SerialsSolutions
>for journal management, consortia Virtual catalogs, RefWorks and Ezproxy
>authentication. We are also about to implement metasearch and OpenURL
>resolver systems (Endeavor). How do we make it all work together as whole
>and how do we prepare for interfacing our systems with others such as WebCT
>or a university portal.
While there are frameworks that will help you're likely going to have to do
a lot of "customization" work to tie all your different applications
together. One approach might be to use something like uPortal
(http://www.uportal.org) which will provide a framework for aggregating
your content as a collection of portlets, each of which will provide a
different service. The portal can take care of
authentication/authorization (single sign-on) and provide a common user
interface to each of the services.
You might try putting both MyLibrary and uPortal in a google search to see
some approaches that have been discussed, including a presentation that
Eric and I collaborated on in 2003 at a LITA conference.
for the wordiness, high anxiety lessens my efficiency.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:39:38 -0500
From: "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies at uillinois.edu>
Subject: [Web4lib] USA Today article on Google Print
To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL 61820-5752
Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax: (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
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