IL2007, Day 3: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services
Posted on November 1, 2007
Filed Under Future of Libraries, ILS, Library 2.0, Open Source Stuff, Web 2.0, Web Management |
Casey Bisson (met him for the first time - nice guy!)
“Libraries are much larger than our books and our OPACs”
Catalog challenges:
- usability
- findability
- remindability
We use Linux daily - it’s the dominant platform of most social web apps
IBM saves over $900,000,000 annually because of LInux
Scriblio.net (used to be his WPOPAC) - very cool. He’s making this easily available to other libraries!
“sites that allow comments value their users”
“Your website is not a marketing tool - it’s a service point.”
Then Casey did a successful live install of Scriblio! Very cool. It’s basically Wordpress with some customized widgets and plug-ins (and your catalog records) - took him 11 1/2 minutes, it seemed easy to do.
It’s going to work with Horizon soon. Book jackets come from Amazon.
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