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8 June 2007
OPAC Eye Candy
Posted by Richard Wallis at June 8, 2007 04:39 PM
Following a link trail started by Tim over on the Thingology Blog (thanks for the heads up Tim), you end up at posting by ealing on Live from the LC. The posting open source session: reflections is a brain-dump of one of the sessions at a conference. - I may be being dim, but I haven't worked out which conference yet.
The bit that caught my eye was this about the presentation from Joshua Ferraro of LibLime:
Joshua talked with us about open source integrated library systems, specifically Koha and Evergreen, and about his company, LibLime, which provides support and/or hosting for libraries who choose open source ILSs and can’t or don’t want to rely exclusively on in-house talent. The implementations of Koha that Joshua showed us were simply stunning. (Here’s one; here’s another, and another [in Turkish!]; and another [!!!]. You should leave this post and go play with them now. I’ll understand if you don’t come back.)
The last one of those, to YakPac, is worth following, just to jolt your brain out of its comfort zone where it thinks it knows what a library search interface should look like.
OK, I'm not so sure that the average researcher would be happy using it, but their kids would!
As I have said before, we are now entering a world where having different interfaces for user groups, or even times of the year/day is possible. Building on a Platform; using components from many sources, including Open Source; making use of Web 2.0 technologies - these things will liberate us from having to make do with the interface that comes with a system to satisfy all our users.
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hey, you're not dim at all, i was just lax about specifying which conference was being blogged! it was called Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Open Source and was sponsored by the Information Technology Section of the New England Library Association. more info and presentations at their website...http://www.nelib.org/its/
Posted by: emily at June 8, 2007 11:41 PM
