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From LIS 415 - Candy's Section

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Scope

Any other new or different Web 2.0'ish access tool or service or mashup used by a library that makes a direct, almost tangible, difference to the user experience when searching or browsing. Remember - this wiki is about organization and retrieval.

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Directories and tools used by many libraries

Library Elf is a service that allows you to track your library cards. Once you register, you can add your library card info (if your library is supported) and use Library Elf to check activity on your account. You can configure it to send you reminders of due dates/overdue items by email or RSS, and you can get also get notification of holds by text message. You can register multiple cards, which is handy for people (like me) who use several libraries. --Wilson4 15:47, 2 February 2007 (EST)
I'm not sure which section this belongs in as it is a kind of mashup but in reverse: you can download a bookmarklet to your browser that will take the ISBN from any record you find on a commecial bookselling page (Amazon, B&N) and will then automatically search your local library catalog and show the result in a new window---all with one click! --Drummond 22:15, 27 November 2006 (EST)
A series of widgets that lets libraries enahce their OPACs with LT-based book recommendations, tags, ratings, reviews and so on. Simmons uses LT for Libraries. --Dunn5 21:36, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
The LibX toolbar (which must be localized) allows users to search local resources quickly, and will also embed links to local resources on search results in Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Scholar, NYT Book Reviews. --Suzuki 19:43, 3 November 2006 (EST)
These are catalogue vendors that brings you tables of contents, book jackets, and reviews along with your MARC records. --Schwartz 15:51, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
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Libraries

easyBorrow is an open source tool that simplifies the selection of borrowing options for the user. The user searches for a title using an Open WorldCat searchbox, the tool intercepts the request and looks it up in the Brown OPAC, and then performs searches to find the item through the many borrowing options the library participates in. The user gets the title they are looking for without being required to make decisions about where to get it from. --Bordac 23:05, 13 December 2007 (EST)
From a full record, the user can boookmark or share with approximately 30 applications (from MySpace and Facebook to del.icio.us and Twitter) and get reviews and more from amazon.com. --Dantas 21:42, 6 May 2008
Lansing Public Library has a link on its homepage that outlines the tools it will provide on Web 2.0. There are links to Library Elf, instant message services, the Library's del.icio.us bookmarks, its Flickr feed, downloadable toolbars, RSS feeds, podcasts, and a Firefox plugin. --Lawler2 13:26, 13 July 2007 (EDT)
The Los Angeles Public Library has created an interactive adventure game called the Goodhue Codex. The game takes place in the library so the user gets an interactive tour of the space while playing. This is a great way to get people excited about the library, and the game itself is a lot of fun. --Delcampo 10:31, 4 October 2006 (EDT)
The Perry Branch Library decided to drop the Dewey Decimal Classification system and to adopt the 50 subject headings used by the Book Industry Study Group [1]. Director Harry Courtright states, "Most library users, say they come to browse, but Dewey doesn’t facilitate browsing. Thus the the new subject headings, as well as an effort to get more books shelved at eye level." --Petersc3 16:08, 14 July 2007 (EDT)
A full record includes links to Google BookSearch and Amazon views of the same work (you have to guess that "More Info" will do this). --Schwartz 19:33, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
Search results include WorldCat, Cite This, and (if available) Google BookSearch. --Schwartz 19:33, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
The Phoenix Public Library includes Amazon covers and ratings and has guided navigation. --Grant4 22:48, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
A group of teens teamed up with the Pima County Public Library in Arizona to create book trailers. Just like a movie trailer, book trailers give a video teaser, but this time for a particular book. According to the library website, the teens wrote the scripts, drew storyboards and acted in the trailers. Together with Tuscon's Channel 12, which provided staff and equipment to direct and shoot these mini films, the teens were able to make these books come to life in an innovative way. --Guderian 00:01, 30 July 2007 (EDT)
Plymouth State University's Lamson Library includes folksonony tagging, and RSS feeds for staying up to date. There is a bookmarking service linked to many sites: de.licio.us, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Newsvine, BlinkList, and Technorati (among others). Users can translate the page into 8 different languages. The system is a library interface and a blog service in one; that is, the bottom of the page allow you to weblog comments, and these make up the tagging folksonomy. A book search on the same page includes, on the same page, the results of books in the library, with book covers. Then the right sidebar links to all the tags, both blogging and keyword tags, related to that search. And, there's guided navigation. --Stose 16:50, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
Take a look at the home page. This library goes all out in using wikis, blogs, and fun to entice and retain the interest of its clients. --Schwartz 09:36, 1 September 2007 (EDT)
Users can send a text message from the catalog with the location, call number, and title of an item - no need for pencil and scrap paper! Go to an individual item's record in the OPAC and look for the button "Send via Text Message." Note: Simmons' OPAC introduced this feature in Summer 2007 with a eerily similar button. --Bordac 11:42, 23 September 2007 (EDT)
  • University of California Berkeley Library,
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
The library provides an online teaching library to assist students on how to search, evaluate, cite and understand the Web. It links to many PDFs, PowerPoints and other materials, and includes a unit on the Invisible Web. --Bugnion 08:17, 10 December 2007 (EST)
Full record includes book cover linked to Google BoookSearch. --Schwartz 19:33, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
The Huddersfield Library has added a number of innovative features to its OPAC. Some are recommendation features like item ratings and "people who borrowed this, borrowed that" lists. The most interesting feature is probably serendipity searches: when a user enters a subject query that returns no results, the OPAC sends the query to answers.com (which contains information from numerous reference sources like Wikipedia, Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary) and compares the important terms on that page with known subject keywords in the Huddersfield catalog. For example, a user who does a subject keyword search for "Diuretics" would receive suggested serendipity searches on subjects like "Caffeine", "Congestive Heart Failure", or "Hypertenstion". --Florin 15:34, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
A series of amusing, often musical, library "how-to" Flash videos. --Schwartz 14:59, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
Users searching through Vaughan Public Library's moving image collections have ready access to movie trailers. For instance, the OPAC record for Sydney Pollack's recent documentary about Frank Gehry, Sketches of Frank Gehry, includes a View Trailer feature. The trailer immediately downloads to the user's software for streaming multimedia content. It's a great service for the more discriminating cinephile. --Mantzari 15:02, 10 April 2007 (EDT)
The cutest OPAC - just go and look at it. --Schwartz 15:40, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
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