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The New IUCAT:Powered by Blacklight
Courtney Greene (@xocg)Head, Discovery & Research Services
IU Bloomington Libraries
Digital Library Brown Bag SeriesOctober 9, 2013
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One discovery layer, eight front doors?Nine campuses
IUCAT – shared statewide online catalogSirsiDynix Symphony ILS
System-wide request delivery
Diversity of collections (monographs, e-resources, various media)
Statewide participation leads to a complex data environment:- Who shares records? What records?
How?- Cataloging services provided to “extra-systems”
libraries- Vendor records- Widely varying formats, classification
schemes; numerous languages
IUCAT Classic One-size-fits-all public interface has its costs
How to best serve all campuses and enable flexibility?
• Review took place in early 2011, candidate applications were Blacklight & VuFind
• Either system judged able to fulfill baseline requirements
• Report & recommendations available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13621
Discovery Layer Selection
• Reasons for choosing Blacklight• Exceptional flexibility• Development community
Other general requirements included• Integrate non MARC metadata from local collections‐• Integrate with technologies enabling single sign on for login to IUCAT services (My Account, tagging, lists,
etc) & off campus access to online resources.‐• Permalinks for records & searches• Generate properly formatted citations for major styles (Chicago, APA, MLA).• Single search box on screen (with access to advanced search) that performs a keyword search using an
index defined by librarians.
Highlights on Selection
• Work began in Summer 2011• public beta release in November 2012• transition to Blacklight interface as primary entry point
in May 2013
• A few details• Ruby v PHP• Data: Indexing, refreshing, displaying• Campus views• Browse Call Number
Implementation
Implementation: tricky bits
• Authentication & account management• My Account services• Off-campus authentication• Single sign-on (sort of)• Requesting items
• Data• Going from more to less structured search• Format fun!
• Statewide scope
Looking forward
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• Lists• New titles• Enhanced views /
additional customization by campus or format
• Transition to Kuali OLE
Discovery Strategy for Kuali OLE
• Implement catalog discovery layer overlay (Blacklight) - check
• Expected Kuali OLE Implementation December 2014
• Integration with Blacklight and EDS for subscribing campuses (Bloomington, Kokomo, South Bend)
• Integration with other structured data sources (not explicitly dependent on OLE migration)• IU Digital Collections• Other campus specific or contextual search data
Discovery Strategy for Kuali OLE
• Implement catalog discovery layer overlay (Blacklight) - check
• Expected Kuali OLE Implementation December 2014
• Integration with Blacklight and EDS for subscribing campuses (Bloomington, Kokomo, South Bend)
• Integration with other structured data sources (not explicitly dependent on OLE migration)• IU Digital Collections• Other campus specific or contextual search data Attend the Dec 11th Brown Bag
for more on this idea!
Ebsco Discovery Service
• IU Bloomington o EDS beta partner, launched as OneSearch@IU in August 2011o Integrated into library site search/resource gateway search, link on home page,
tab in subject guides, tabbed search box on Find Information pageo Drupal 7 module for website integration
• IU Kokomoo Launched Sept 2011 o Search box on home page, Find Information page, resources A-Z guide, and
Public Access & Research Resources page
• IU South Bendo Launching for upcoming academic year
• All campuses share a single catalog extract
Campus specific
SD Symphony 3rd Party Data APIs
IU Kokomo
IU Southeast
IU Bloomington, South Bend
Architecture IUCAT (Blacklight)
IU Kokomo
Archival Collections
Digital Library Collections
Additional reading on the project• Moore, Kate B., and Courtney Greene. 2012a. “The Search for a New OPAC: Selecting an Open Source
Discovery Layer.” Serials Review 38 (1) (March): 24–30.
• Greene, Courtney, Barbara Gushrowski, Randall Lent, Chris Evin Long, Mary Beth Minick, Kate Banet Moore, Gwendolyn Pershing, Mary Pagliero Popp, and Susan Skekloff. 2011. “IU Libraries Discovery Layer Task Force Summary Report and Recommendation”. Indiana University Libraries. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13621.
Thank you!Courtney [email protected]