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Enhancing the OPAC with the Virtual Shelf Browser

Enhancing the OPAC with the Virtual Shelf Browser. Renata Dyer Manager, Systems and Electronic Services High Court of Australia Library. Context. OPAC Enhancements Project implementing book images (incl. TOCs and Summaries)

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Enhancing the OPAC with the Virtual Shelf Browser

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  1. Enhancing the OPAC with the Virtual Shelf Browser Renata Dyer Manager, Systems and Electronic Services High Court of Australia Library

  2. Context OPAC Enhancements Project • implementing book images (incl. TOCs and Summaries) • utilising 856 and 970 fields to deliver more meaningful information about online access • WebBridge feature (basic only) – discovering more in Scholar and Trove • Enhancing Discovery Experience with Virtual Shelf Browser (VSB)

  3. Why VSB? • Interactive visual browsing experience • OPAC searching aligned with the Web 2.0 discovery experience (Google Books, etc) • More integrated presentation of third party supplemental content (book images)

  4. Implementation Step 1: exporting the collection titles in tab-delimited file (Review File) to be provided to the vendor Step 2: basic configuration done on vendor’s admin site Step 3: modifying the bib_display.html in screens files (QR code provided by the vendor) Step 4: testing and correcting

  5. Review File Export • The review file created containing required elements (online location excluded!) • Exported to .txt • Further cleaning in Excel; file saved in .txt format • Loaded onto the vendor’s site

  6. Configuration of VSB

  7. Bib_display.html QR Code provided by the vendor and added to the bib_display.html

  8. <script src="http://ltfl.librarything.com/forlibraries/widget.js?id=1461-2457050331" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>This page contains enriched content visible when JavaScript is enabled or by clicking <a href="http://ltfl.librarything.com/forlibraries/noscript.php?id=1461-2457050331&accessibility=1">here</a>.</noscript>

  9. Testing - Issues • Some links in VSB to the catalogue page did not work. • These records were without ISBNs. • Resolution: configuring title and keyword URLS

  10. More Issues… Title and keyword URLs often picked up too many records and in some cases no records at all. The records that produced no search results had “too long” titles.

  11. Resolution What would be the best element from the MARC record that can be used for URL string? Bib record number! Issue with the bib record number: one digit longer in Millennium than in OPAC New tab-delimited file provided to the vendor; vendor strips out the last digit

  12. Ideal Scenario The Visual Shelf Browse images are linked to the bib record

  13. Questions? Contact: Renata Dyer renata.dyer@hcourt.gov.au Manager, Systems and Electronic Services High Court of Australia Library

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