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Open Source Programs for the Reference Librarian

When your budget is more limited than your vision LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group. Open Source Programs for the Reference Librarian. Open Source Systems Interest Group. Our interest group meeting is on Monday from 1:30 – 3:30 in the Loews New Orleans, Beauregard Room.

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Open Source Programs for the Reference Librarian

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  1. When your budget is more limited than your vision LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group Open Source Programs for the Reference Librarian

  2. Open Source Systems Interest Group Our interest group meeting is on Monday from 1:30 – 3:30 in the Loews New Orleans, Beauregard Room

  3. Presentation Goals To encourage Reference / Instruction Librarians to build collaborative partnerships with Systems people To promote the use of Open Source in libraries and encourage development / modification of Open Source for libraries To introduce and review a number of Open Source products that might be useful for Reference

  4. What is Open Source? Free redistribution Source code open and distributed, enabling modification Modifications of the source code and derivations are encouraged Peer Review model – Many developers improving and modifying products

  5. Things to keep in mind Just because Open Source is “free” doesn’t mean that it doesn’t require staff time to implement and maintain it Many Open Source programs require particular operating environments and additional software (e.g. UNIX, Linux, PHP, MySQL, etc.) Using Open Source requires Systems support

  6. Important Sites http://www.opensource.org http://sourceforge.net http://www.oss4lib.org

  7. Presenters Ranti Junus, Systems Librarian at Michigan State University – iVia [http://ivia.ucr.edu] Teria Curry, Distance Librarian at Johns Hopkins University – LibX [http://libx.org] Kirsten Allen, Reference/Instruction Librarian at American University – Jabber [http://www.jabber.org] and Gaim [http://gaim.sourceforge.net]

  8. Presenters Cont. Mary Evangeliste, Information Commons Training Coordinator at University of Arizona – MediaWiki [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki] George Harmon, Systems Librarian at Florida State University – JabRef [http://jabref.sourceforge.net]

  9. an open source internet portal and virtual library system -Ranti Junus, Systems Librarian Michigan State University iVia virtual library software

  10. what is iVia a software package for building virtual libraries of Internet resources. use it to build a database of meta data records, either manually or by employing its many record building, meta data assignment and focused crawling tools. the virtual library itself is searchable and browsable through a standard Web browser.

  11. iVia developer developed by the INFOMINE Project at the Library of the University of California, Riverside as the engine for the INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections (http://infomine.ucr.edu/). free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. http://ivia.ucr.edu

  12. infomine (http://infomine.ucr.edu)

  13. search & browse simple search advanced search: various options for search and result display results: relevance ranking by default title author, subject (LCSH), subject discipline keyword description full text

  14. browse – keyword: all categories

  15. browse – keyword: by category

  16. search - advanced

  17. search – by category

  18. search – advanced: search options origins expert created or expert + web robot resource access fee based, free, both type of resources (data sets, electronic journals, gov.documents, etc.)

  19. search – advanced: result options result display title only title and short paragraph ranking relevancy by title: alphabetical, ignoring stop words (The, A/An) number of results per page

  20. search – advanced: options

  21. search – by category: options

  22. search result – all categories

  23. search result – by category

  24. search result – settings

  25. meta data

  26. meta data

  27. back end – administration categories creation - manual import records from OAI-PMH and MARC remote service capability automatically assign meta data service to URL expert-guided crawler service to find new resources delete or replace a set of results

  28. 'Adders' website tools to help librarians discover and describe Internet resources adding and editing records suggestions for a new record url checker to build Internet portals and virtual libraries

  29. Adders homepage (http://ivia.ucr.edu/manuals/iVia/5.0.0/adders_manual/adders_homepage.shtml)

  30. systems & software installation apache web server mysql database linux operating system; iVia is tested on debian, redhat, and suse latest version: 5.0.0 pre 25 (as of June 20th, 2006) straight forward installation using their installation scripts

  31. where to find download from their site (http://ivia.ucr.edu/download/) extensive manual – read carefully! (http://ivia.ucr.edu/manuals/)

  32. LibX: A Firefox Extension for Libraries Teria Curry, Distance Librarian Johns Hopkins University

  33. LibX: Background LibX is a localized Firefox extension that provides direct access to your library's resources via the Firefox browser Joint project of the Virginia Tech Newman Library and the VT Department of Computer Science.  For more information go to www.libx.org

  34. LibX: System Features Host code at libx.org server or institutional server Toolbar installed on Client-side Direct access to OPAC Direct access to OpenURL Resolver Integration of Google Scholar Support for embedded cues

  35. From a Reference Point-of-View Great for digital Natives Toolbar can be customized to meet user needs Bridges the Internet to the Library Directs users back to full-text content

  36. Open Source Chat Programs Kirsten Allen Reference and Instruction Librarian American University

  37. Jabber Open Source Consumer IM Service Gaim Open Source Multi-protocol IM Client

  38. Jabber • www.jabber.org • Jabber is set of streaming XML protocols; runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS X • Jabber clients can chat with commercial IM clients including Yahoo, MSN, Google talk and AOL; requires setting up gateways/ transports on specific jabber servers

  39. Jabber continued... Numerous clients to choose from (http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml) Can set up in-library system using own server or can connect to Jabber public servers (www.xmpp.net) Installation requires knowledge of institution’s network infrastructure

  40. Pros/Cons of Jabber Use by millions guarantees protocols are continually improved Not recommend for libraries without systems support familiar with XML Advertising free – works with other commercial services

  41. Gaim gaim.sourceforge.net Allows users to open multiple IM clients in one interface and monitor chat sessions concurrently; AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber and more Runs on a Windows, MacOS X, and Linux

  42. Gaim continued… For libraries looking to provide IM reference service using multiple IM clients Easily installed on computer; new beta versions available at website Supports many of the features included in other IM clients; plug-ins available for other features

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