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Managing OPACs : Approaches to the process of OPAC change and development

Managing OPACs : Approaches to the process of OPAC change and development. Del Shiers Manager, Collection Services Murdoch University Library September 18th 2006. Outline Shared bibliographic database Approaches to ongoing management of change OPAC redesign project (4 th quarter 2005)

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Managing OPACs : Approaches to the process of OPAC change and development

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  1. Managing OPACs :Approaches to the process of OPAC change and development Del Shiers Manager, Collection Services Murdoch University Library September 18th 2006

  2. Outline • Shared bibliographic database • Approaches to ongoing management of change • OPAC redesign project (4th quarter 2005) • Future directions?

  3. Shared bibliographic database • Murdoch University (5 libraries on 3 campuses) • Murdoch, Veterinary, Curriculum Resource Centre, Rockingham Regional Campus Community Library, Peel public, university, TAFE and high school • City of Rockingham Public Libraries (3 libraries) • Safety Bay, Warnbro Community, Rockingham Regional Campus Community public, university, TAFE and high school • Peel Education Campus • Mandurah Senior College university, TAFE and high school

  4. Shared bibliographic database Ongoing management includes: • Public library data: circulating State Library of Western Australia collection weekly loads of ‘Advance Order’ and ‘Exchange’ data files • Schools Catalogue Information Services subject headings for high school use indexed separately from LC headings • Annual CAUL statistics returns Accurately report on changes to the University component of the database and similarly report to SLWA for the public library circulating stock • Quality control

  5. Shared bibliographic database • Before any change to the OPAC all stakeholders must be involved in decisions • Data presentation must suit a range of users, from pre-schoolers to post-doctoral research fellows Use ‘scopes’ to control OPAC views of the underlying bibliographic data, appropriate to each user group.

  6. Managing OPAC change • Murdoch Millennium User Group meets every two months. Membership drawn from all levels of library staff plus stakeholder representatives • Reports (at Murdoch) to the Strategic Quality Improvement Forum • Role includes the assessment of new software releases, timing of software upgrades and assessment of new products • Joint agreement on changes affecting user populations

  7. OPAC redesign project 4th quarter 2005 Basic principles: • Align OPAC page design with Library web pages • Use standard III web page templates and amend them • Main search options on initial OPAC screen • Consideration of diverse user populations

  8. Search options

  9. Scopes

  10. Issues addressed during the project • Radio buttons vs drop down menu boxes • Guided searches • Colour (so as to remain distinct yet not conflict with the City of Rockingham OPAC pages) • Short time frame (few face to face meetings, many decisions made via email consensus) • Book cover images

  11. City of Rockingham

  12. Search options

  13. Scope menu

  14. KidsOnline interface start screen

  15. Issues addressed (continued) • Short time frame (few face to face meetings, many decisions made via email consensus) • Book cover images

  16. Future directions • RSS feeds for new books • How do we communicate with our users? Blogs and/or wikis for the IGen users? • Loading a new set of bibliographic data from Department of Agriculture and Food WA library

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