A-1 Making Your ILS Web 2.0 Happy

Using Client-side Scripting to Make Your ILS Web 2.0

Happy

Tina S. ChingReference Librarian

Seattle University School of Law

Doug EriksenCoordinator of Library TechnologySeattle University Lemieux Library

•Next Generation/2.0 OPAC options

•The committee – Two libraries, five librarians

•The question – What is “Next Generation”?

The Quest

• Suggested search

• Spell checking

• Faceted browsing

• Syndication/feeds

• User content

• Book reviews

• Recommendations

• Article level results

•Book cover images

•Persistent URLs

•Social Networking/ bookmarking

•Export to Citation Managers

•Support for multiple scopes

The Features

•The Truth (Information) is Out There

•And it is free

The Epiphany

The Website•Website redesign coincide with OPAC

redevelopment

•OPAC integral part of our site

•Greater functionality for users to interact with the information on our site

MAJAXMillennium AJAX

http://www.libx.org/majax/

Reuse Bibliographic Datain ways your OPAC can’t (or won’t)

The Technical Problem

•Bibliographic data in your OPAC is displayed on system generated pages, you are lucky if you can style it, let alone manipulate it

•There are cool things you really want to do with that data

•at Google Books, WorldCat, Tictocs...

The Expensive Solution

•Better discovery layers

•Next-gen OPACs

The Cheap Solution

•Client-side scripting, often referred to as Web 2.0, AJAX, JavaScript, etc.

•The bad news - it doesn’t work for everyone

•The good news - it works for almost everyone

Our Project•harvester.js

•manipulator.js

•http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/eriksend/web/aall09/

•code samples, downloads, live examples

harvester.js

•Scans the page for table rows, and evaluates them

•Finds rows with two cells, one with a label and one with data

•Assigns the data to appropriate variables

•Fails elegantly in clients without JavaScript support

Bib Data in Tables

Seattle Public LibraryHorizon OPAC

Lemieux LibraryMillennium OPAC

Two different OPACs with bibliographic data in tables

Useful Data•Standard numbers: ISBN, ISSN, LCN, OCLC

•Citation information: title, author, publisher, date

•Persistent URL

•...

Using the Data

•Link out to supplemental information

•WorldCat Identities

•Serial title history

•Other formats and editions in WorldCat

Using the Data

•Link out to tools

•Refworks export

•Endnote export

•Social bookmarking

•Search engines

Using the Data

•Bring in supplemental data

•Cover images from Google books

•Full text viewer from Google Books

•TOC feeds from Tictocs

Google Books button

•This button only appears if a scan of the book (full or partial) is available for preview

Google Books Viewer

•This viewer loads right on top of you page in a lightbox. No need to send users to another page, or open a pop-up window.

See it in Action•Seattle University

and SU Lawhttp://library.seattleu.edu

•University of Oregonhttp://janus.uoregon.edu/

•Mt. Hood Community Collegehttp://lrc-srv.mhcc.edu/

•Bowdoin Collegehttp://phebe.bowdoin.edu

•Dowling Collegehttp://library.dowling.edu/