Celle de la Bibliothèque de l'université de Laval est tout simplement impressionnante: à (re)voir, à (re)découvrir absolument.

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Le projet OLE a débuté il y a un an. Le rapport final a été rendu public fin juillet (en version draft, soumise à commentaires).

"The goal of the Open Library Environment Project (OLE Project) was to design a next-generation library system that breaks away from print-based workflows, reflects the changing nature of ibrary materials and new approaches to scholarly work, integrates well with other enterprise systems and can be easily modified to suit the needs of different institutions. The project planners went beyond designing for incremental improvement of current Integrated Library Systems (ILS’s). They also viewed the role of library business technology systems to bemore than purchasing and providing access to collected materials. The project planners chose to define a system that supports libraries as a central player in the research process. [...]"

"OLE is both more and less than a traditional ILS. OLE goes beyond an ILS through its ability to utilize other systems and deliver valuable new services. At the same time, OLE allows institutions to avoid redundancy of data, and reduce purchase and integration of add-on components to their current ILS in order to carry out library business. Finally, OLE places the library’s business in context within the fabric of the institution and the research process, rather than keeping it a separate, siloed operation. [...]"

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Wikipedia in the catalogue?

L'université d'Etat du Kansas (E.-U.) a intégré des articles provenant de Wikipedia dans son Opac.

"[...] We have cataloged about 1,000 Wikipedia articles analytically at the State Library providing links via the Kansas Library Catalog, WorldCat/OCLC and the State Library’s consortium OPAC, ATLAS. Most all of the Wikipedia articles we’ve cataloged are concerned with Kansas, Kansans or current topics with few resources initially available via standard library resources. [...]"

(source: The Distant Librarian, 02/07/09)

OCRIS Project (UK): Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study:

• Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there;
• Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information;
• List the various services to institutional managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered respectively by OPACs and repositories;
• Identify the potential for improvements in the links (e.g. using link resolver technology) from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services, such as finance or research administration;
• Make recommendations for the development of possible further links between library OPACs and institutional repositories, identifying the benefits of such links to various stakeholder groups.

(source: JISC, 02/07/09)

- RDA Online: demo screenshots available

(source: Cataloging Futures, 25/06/09) | lire aussi

- Google and FRBR

(source: The FRBR Blog, 25/06/09)

- Journée de réflexion sur l’avenir du catalogue dans les bibliothèques

(source: BiblioFusion, 25/06/09)

- Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community

(source: The Cataloguing Librarian, 25/06/09)

Virtual research environments: issues and opportunities for librarians next generation OPACs: n° spécial de la revue Library Hi Tech (vol. 27, n° 2, 2009 / sur abonnement). A voir, notamment:

• Virtual research environments in scholarly work and communications

• Exploring new ways of working using virtual research environments in library and information science

• Dealing with the complexity deluge: VREs in the arts and humanities

• VRE library services: Learning from supporting VLE users

• On-demand virtual research environments and the changing roles of librarians

• From OPAC to CMS: Drupal as an extensible library platform

• Discovering discovery tools: Evaluating vendors and implementing Web 2.0 environments

Au menu du n°7 du Code4Lib Journal:

• How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source

In 2000 a small public library system in New Zealand developed and released Koha, the world’s first open source library management system. This is the story of how that came to pass and why, and of the lessons learnt in their first foray into developing in open source.

Sur le blog bibli.othequ.es: Outil d'interopérabilité avec les OPAC:

"[...] Mon activité de ces dernières semaines s’est portée sur le (re)développement d’un outil permettant d’interroger un OPAC de façon automatique. En gros du screen scraping, pour des recherches basées sur le critère ISBN. Avec pour objectif d’en extraire du MARC tout ce qu’il y a de plus exploitable. [...]"

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Màj 29/06/09: lire également ce billet d'Encore un biblioblog...

Preliminary Report on User Research for eXtensible Catalog

"Use this URL for a report that summarizes the objectives, methods, and major software design findings from the data collected in the user research portion of the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project. A full analysis and interpretation of the data is not included in the present report and will be provided at the conclusion of the project. This report includes edited results from the brainstorming sessions and a list of the features that emerged from the analysis of those results. (See the eXtensible Catalog website for more information about the overall project.)"

(source: Catalogablog, 17/06/09)

Lutter contre le silence des catalogues des bibliothèques grâce aux suggestions de google

"Croisé lors de la récente journée d’étude organisée par le CNFPT, j’ai remarqué une innovation très intéressante de la bibliothèque de Saint-Herblain. Sur le très chouette site proposé par Quentin Chevillon, notre bibliothécaire-développeur national, auteur de Moccam-en-ligne et de Moccam. Quentin a eu la très bonne idée d’utiliser l’API de google pour le correcteur de requêtes dans le catalogue."

(source: Bibliobsession 2.0, 13/05/09)