discovering library collections

Discovering the library collectionslibrary traditions in the light of the weband its users

Lukas KosterLibrary of the University of AmsterdamThe Netherlandsl.koster@uva.nl

Rosemie CallewaertBibnetBelgiumrosemie.callewaert@bibnet.be

From Amsterdam to Brussels

Theory

Practice

Objective of this talkConfrontation between the library traditions and the webin the light of "meeting new user expectations"

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What are user expectations?

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Two traditions: the library and the web

Catalog records versus enriched dataTables of content, abstracts, ratings, tags

Recommendations

OPAC versus search engines and popular sitesGoogle

Amazon

Bibliographic reference versus full content and delivery online

Library vocabulary versus familiar concepts

2.0 unwritten rulesGuide meAttract meFind meReward me

Guide me

Advanced! Not simple!

No FRBR

No relevance ranking

FRBR

Relevance ranking

So many databases to search

Guiding? Fail!

One index, different databases

Synonymstwo search actions

ORcombined searches

Synonyms=

Query Expansion

attract me

MARC! Catalogue card!

find me

where is the library?

come to us

we come to you

republishing the library data

www.bibliotheek.be

library holding widget on other websites

Web access any time anywhere

Location awareness

Mobile! Literally: go where your users are

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reward me

System recommendations

Recommendationsfrom social networks

Recommendationsfrom social networks

my opinon?

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can LIBRARIES meet new user expectations?

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