Present: Peter, Dan, Shawn, Robin, Fran, Scott, Lyman, Elizabeth, Sibyl,
Donna
1. Criteria Next OPAC
We filled out a form to prioritize criteria for evaluating next gen OPACs.
We can pull out those criteria that the system must have and put them
together so that we can simply eliminate those systems that don't meet
the required curricula—show stoppers
Some things we will not be ranking but will need to gather the info:
e.g. cost and estimated staff time.
We will send out the criteria for feedback from others in the library
after the next revision. We should ask an open-ended question of our
coworkers for now.
Deal breakers:
In production
Supports indexing & importation of records in a variety of metadata formats
Ability to add new indices
Integrates with Voyager ILS
Known item searching
Reliability
Displays library holdings and circ status
Book jackets
Look inside the book
Icons to distinguish one type of material from another
Natural language searching
Spell checking
faceted browsing
create durable URLs
Automatically populate LRA request
Ability to place links in Blackboard
API
Highly customizable
Usability standards and visual appeal need to be added.
Will students ever use the OPAC, no matter how nice we make it?
Maybe we don't want to spend the most money on this system or spend the
most time on it.
OPAC needs to have more online content because most of our users are not
in the building.
Google is really bad at known item searching.
Donna
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