WebVoyage OPAC Customization

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WebVoyage OPAC Customization

• Current State, Future Possibilities

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What does I-Share mean, and how do we use the
name in the interface?

• I-Share is neither a consortium nor a subset of
  a consortium
• I-Share is the name of the union catalog shared
  by 65 of the CARLI libraries

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What does I-Share mean, and how do we use the
name in the interface?

• More loosely, I-Share is the CARLI service that
  includes the I-Share catalog itself and the 65
  variously named local library catalogs that
  currently run on Voyager software on the CARLI
  server.
• I-Share libraries are the libraries that
  contribute to I-Share.

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What is the Future of WebVoyage?

• Short term (in the next few months)
• The IUAG OPAC Customization Task Force plans to
  make a few changes at the time of the Voyager
  upgrade this summer.

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What is the Future of WebVoyage?

• Medium term (over the coming year or so)
• OPAC Customization work will be on-going (under
  some new CARLI committee structure) on both
  I-Share and the default design for I-Share
  libraries local catalogs.
• Libraries may find they de-emphasize use of the
  catalog interface, in favor of access to the
  catalogs data via federated search systems (like
  WebFeat), campus portals, etc.

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What is the Future of WebVoyage?

• Longer term (in the indeterminate future)
• Endeavor has announced plans for a whole new,
  highly configurable public interface to the
  catalog, based on XML.
• http//www.endinfosys.com/prods/MW05digitalbreakfa
  stpublic.pdf, slide 36
• http//support.endinfosys.com/cust/community/vgrou
  p/eu2005/produpdate_voy.pdf, slides 32-33
  (SupportWeb username and password required)

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What is Planned for FutureI-Share Releases?

• Minor adjustments to the buttons and other
  graphical elements that were introduced in
  January
• More help from the MyAccount page
• Design changes suggested by usability test
  results
• The New Titles add-on, as developed at the
  University of Texas, Arlington

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What Is Under Consideration for Future I-Share
Releases?

• Additional columns of data on the Titles Page
• Format icons
• IP-recognition, to affect the order in which
  holding libraries are listed on the single-record
  View page in the Universal Catalog
• A third partys spellchecker, integrated into the
  interface

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What Might be Included in Future I-Share
Releases, If We Upgrade?

• Keyword-in-heading searches
• Wildcard support
• Different default operator on keyword searches
• MyOPAC features re-enabled in the local catalogs

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What Can Be Customized within the Consortial
Default Design?

• Welcome page (currently bypassed by default)
• Institutional banner (can be image map)
• Request button visible?
• Quit buttons destination
• Call number search type
• Location limits
• Quick Limits

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What Can Be Customized within the Consortial
Default Design?

• For more information, see http//office.ilcso.illi
  nois.edu/Docs/021120_stand.html
• For information about what trained customizers
  can (technically) and may (within consortial
  guidelines) customize, beyond the
  CARLI-staff-supported default, see
  http//office.ilcso.illinois.edu/Reports/iuagopacc
  /wv_cust.pdf

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Whats It Like To Be a Customizer in the I-Share
Environment?

• Real Life Experiences of Amanda Pippitt, Millikin
  University

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If You Were To Customize Your Local Catalog, What
Would You Change?
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For More Information

• Visit the ILCSO/CARLI web site
  http//office.ilcso.illinois.edu/docs_opac.htmlcu
  stom
• Or contact the CARLI office oncall_at_listserv.ilcso
  .uiuc.edu