[Web4lib] ALA Annual Program: 'You've found it, now what?!' Extended Services in Next Generations Catalogs: LITA Next Generation Catalog IG

[Ray Schwartz]

'You've found it, now what?!' Extended Services in Next Generations 
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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