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An Open Source ILS Independent OPAC

An Open Source ILS Independent OPAC. Jackie Wrosch, Systems Librarian Eastern Michigan University. Overview. What is it? Our goals Implementation Results Future. What is VUFind?. OPAC Open source ILS independent. What it doesn’t do. Does not replace your ILS!. What did we want?.

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An Open Source ILS Independent OPAC

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  1. An Open Source ILS Independent OPAC Jackie Wrosch, Systems Librarian Eastern Michigan University

  2. Overview • What is it? • Our goals • Implementation • Results • Future

  3. What is VUFind? • OPAC • Open source • ILS independent

  4. What it doesn’t do Does not replace your ILS!

  5. What did we want? Improve our vendor-supplied OPAC

  6. Goals • Is it better than what we have? • Can we maintain and run ourselves? • Is our time worth the gain?

  7. What have we done • Originally installed August 2007 • Implementing needed features

  8. Improvements • Fast, improved keyword searching • Facetted browsing and limiting • Completely customizable and truly open • Real time integration with our ILS • Interactivity • Integration of outside content • Similar items

  9. How it works • Bib records imported to SOLR • MySQL stores interactive content • “driver” program connects to ILS • css and tpl file build interface • Configuration files for features and connections • PHP glues it together

  10. Pre-install requirements • PHP 5.2+ with pear and pdo-oci • MySQL 4.1+ • Apache 2.2+ • Java 1.5+ • Connection to ILS database

  11. Downloading • http://www.vufind.org • Available through SourceForge • Updates – uses SubVersion (svn)

  12. Installation • Install script • Creates the MySQL database • Installs some libraries

  13. Configuration • config.ini • Voyager.ini (Driver.ini)

  14. Start-up • Make sure cache directory is writable • Apache httpd.conf files • Make vufind.sh executable

  15. Importing records • Export from your ILS • Run import script • Restart VUFind • Updating with new and modified records • Deleting records

  16. Up and running • Search and retrieve results • Shows availability

  17. Customizations • lang/en.ini • themes/*.tpl

  18. Functional customizations • Patron Login • Retrieving and displaying holdings

  19. Did not meet expectations • Holds/Requests • OPAC Renewals • Favorites/Tags • Author Search Sort

  20. In development • Authority searching

  21. Not working • Tag searching • Email • All Find More functions

  22. Future • Improve those functions we need • Compare against our vendor OPAC • Plan for additional support

  23. Who would want to try it? • PHP, Apache and MySQL experience • Experimenters • Don’t need documentation or vendor support

  24. Thank you! Jackie Wrosch, Systems Librarian Eastern Michigan University jwrosch@emich.edu http://people.emich.edu/jwrosch/MLA2008

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