General Information

• BRIEF CHARGE: Identify opportunities for designing and enhancing the interface and usability of the 11 State University Libraries (SUL) catalogs.  Collaborate with FCLA staff and other appropriate groups as needed to implement changes and enhancements.
  
• Full Charge (Approved by PSPC in 2008)
  
• OPAC Subcommittee Members
  
• FCLA Mango Page - (June, 2009) Most of the things from the blog below are moving to this site so everything can be found in one place.
  
• Endeca Project Blog (Aleph Userid/Password required.) -- SULOPAC Blog (Aleph Userid/Password required)
• SUSOPAC-L Listserv Archives (The Committee's Business Listserv) -- See November 2002 to date -- LISTSERV USERID/PASSWORD REQUIRED
  
• LIBOPAC-L Listserv Archives (Open to all SUL staff) -- Replaced WEBLUIS-L in February, 2004 -- LISTSERV USERID/PASSWORD REQUIRED
• ENDECA ISSUES (In Google Docs) -- For OPAC Subcommittee Members  |  For Non-Subcommittee Members
  

• Quarterly Reports for CSUL (Word or PDF):
  
• November 20, 2005
  
• February 16, 2006
  
• May 12, 2006
  
• August 21, 2006
  
• November 15, 2006
  
• February 09, 2007
• May, 2007 -- No Separate Report
  
• August, 2007 (PDF)
• OPAC Subcommittee Quarterly Reports since August 2007 have not been separate but have been included in the PSPC Quarterly Reports posted on Public Services Steering Committee site.
  

• Endeca Usability Conference Calls | wiki
  
• Podcast -- September 13, 2007 (.mp3) - :52
  
• Podcast -- September 20, 2007 (.mp3) - 1:08
  
• Podcast -- October 4, 2007 (.mp3) - 1:07
• Podcast -- November 1, 2007(.mp3) - 23:40  | Minutes
• November 15, 2007 | Minutes
  

• OPAC Visioning Summit Planning Task Force -- January 27, 2008  |  opacvision wiki
  
• October 08, 2007 
  
• October 22, 2007  |  Podcast (.mp3) - 1:19
• November 09, 2007 |  Podcast (.mp3) - :48
  
• November 16, 2007  |  Podcast (.mp3) - 1:26
• November 26, 2007
• December 11, 2007  |  Podcast (.mp3) - 0:31
• January 3, 2008  |  Podcast (.mp3) -  0:29 (First 10 minutes not available)
• Summit Opening and Closing Videos -- Available for all to view is the video from the Joint TSPC-OPAC summit (held on 1/25 at UCF) of the opening and closing remarks made by the participants about their vision of the OPAC of the future and the concluding remarks at the end of the day.  Thanks go to UCF staff for putting this together. To access video, upon connection select Video of OPAC Vision Summit.  If you are asked for a password, enter OPAC.
• Joint TSPC-OPAC Vision Summit: Executive Summary and Key Ideas -- March 3, 2008
  

• FCLA Endeca
• October 12, 2007 NOTE: These two blogs do not contain recent information, but still have value. 
  
• SUL OPAC Subcommittee Blog (Aleph Userid/Password required) :: Endeca has been developed by FCLA to replace the Aleph OPAC as primary OPAC. This blog includes links to many planning resources for the project as well as to a separate Endeca Project Blog. 
• Endeca Project Blog (Aleph Userid/Password required.)
• Podcast of Josh Greben’s Endeca Overview presentation to the TSPC Metadata Subcommittee - 12/12/2007 (.mp3) -- 1:07  | Outline
• FCLA Endeca Use Statistics
• North Carolina State University Project Information (Endeca at the NCSU Libraries -- the first use of Endeca for a library OPAC)
  
• TRLN Endeca Project Implementation (Triangle Research Libraries Network)
• Other Endeca OPACS
• North Carolina State University
  
• McMasters University
• Phoenix Public Library
• University of Toronto  |  Press Release (Feb 4, 2008)
  
• Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) -- North Carolina State University; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ; Duke University; North Carolina Central University
  
• FCLA Aleph
• FCLA Aleph OPAC's
  
• Other Selected Aleph OPACs -- Mostly U.S. Academic Libraries
• FCLA Endeca and Aleph
• View SUL Endeca and Aleph OPACS Side-by-Side
• Endeca OPAC Use Statistics  |  Aleph OPAC Use Statistics
  
• Historical Background: Aleph v.18 Status and Endeca -- 12/21/06 Message to FCLLIST and LIBOPAC-L

• Other Resources
  
• Library Terms That Users Understand -- This site is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices.
• NGC4LIB [Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries] -- Subscribe | Archive
• What are libraries doing today?
  
• The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration With Other Discovery Tools (PDF) -- Prepared for the Library of Congress by Karen Calhoun
• Final Report of the UC Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force, Rethinking How we Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California, Dec. 2005. Task Force Charge | Executive Summary | Final Report
• Faceted Classification (Wikipedia) | Explanation (Uses North Carolina State University's Endeca as an example)
• Preprint of Catalog/Cataloging Changes and Web 2.0 Functionality: New Directions for Serials The Serials Librarian, 53 (4), Kemp, Rebecca.
• Information Design for the New Web
  
• Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog -- January 20, 2006 (A palindromic ILS service layer)
• University of California Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force Final Report, 12/05 (PDF) -- Note Appendix F (P. 50)
• Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
  
• A Symposium on the Future of Integrated Library Systems, Champaign, IL - September 13-15, 2007 (Several Podcasts)
• Notre Dame Resources
• October 26, 2007 Symposium - Dr. Strangelove, or How we learned to live with Google - Topics included the results of Libraries-wide discussion, eXtensible Catalog, Primo, OAIster, AquaBrowser, and Google Books.
  
• Eric Lease Morgan Presentations:
  
• Catalog Collectivism: XC and the Future of Library Search (Charleston Conference)
  
• Next Generation' Library Catalogs in 15 Minutes (Notre Dame/Ex Libris "birthday party")
  
• Please send other links for listing here to Rich Bennett.

• Examples of Next Generation Library Catalogs -- On futurelib wiki
• See Endeca OPAC links in "OPAC Planning Links" section above
• Ex Libris PRIMO:
  
• Vanderbilt (Test Pilot) | Library Home Page
  
• U. of Minnesota . | Library Home Page
  
• U. of Iowa (Beta) | Library Home Page
• Iowa State University | Library Home Page
  
• Royal Danish Library | Primo Beta Test
  
• AquaBrowser | Overview
• Oklahoma State University
• University of Chicago (Lens)
  
• Arkansas State University
  
• Alachua County Public Library
• Lexington Public Library
• Howard County Library
• Queens Borough Public Library
  
• More customers
• WorldCat Local: 
• OCLC Information: OCLC Announcement | WorldCat Local Site
  
• Other Information: U. of California Project Site
• OPACS: U. of Washington
• Open-ILS.org -- This is information central for the development effort of an open source Integrated Library System (ILS), named Evergreen. Connect to production, demo, and development OPACS.
• LibraryThing -- About  ::  Danbury Public Library
  
• State Library of Tasmania (Australia) (7/19/07) -- based on the Verity K2 search engine. Some more information about the State Library of Tasmania's catalogue redesign can be found in the following:
  
  • A conference paper given by Lloyd Sokvitne in September 2006 http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/documents/Sokvitne.doc
  • A podcast by Lloyd Sokvitne at a Feb 2006 conference, available at the URL http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006/prog2006.htm
  • And an article by Lloyd Sokvitne in Australian Academic and Research Libraries 37(4) Dec 2006, which is not yet available online but will eventually become so at  http://alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/
• VuFind (7/19/07) -- Open Source project website. Download the software and try out a live demo.
  
• Syndetic Solutions -- Syndetic Solutions provides specialized bibliographic data to enhance library online catalogs. They offer a wealth of descriptive information and cover images relating to all types of books, from juvenile chapter books to conference proceedings. _
• See list on opacvision
• lib - web - cats -- (library web sites and catalogs) is a directory of libraries worldwide. While the majority of the current listings are in North America, the numbers of libraries represented in other parts of the globe is growing. Each listing includes links to the library's website and online catalog. Other information available includes the geographic location, address, library type, current and previous library automation systems used, and the size of the library's collection.
• Please send other links for listing here to Rich Bennett.

• WebLUIS Task Force -- This group existed from January, 1997 until it "morphed" into the OPAC Subcommittee in May, 2002.
• Library Management System Committee -- Including documents and links related to the evaluation and selection of ALEPH.
• LMS Committee OPAC & Gateways Functional Subgroup (Members, documents & resources) -- SUSOPAC-L Listserv Archives (See March 2000 to August 2001)
• AISC (Aleph Implementation Steering Committee) OPAC Task Force Report (November 1, 2002) -- Includes OPAC interface recommendations from the Task Force consisting of equal representation from the Florida SUL and Community Colleges. Both FCLA and CCLA are implementing separate ALEPH systems and will ultimately provide a joint union catalog as well.
• Update to OPAC Subcommittee - Feb. 26, 2003 -- Describes many of the challenges and realities of development in the ALEPH Web OPAC environment.
• Old OPAC Subcommittee Page -- Preserved as it existed before February 1, 2006.
  
• Old Full Charge and Activities (Removed after March 9, 2007 subcommittee conference call) -- This older version had been approved by PSPC on March 20, 2006 Conference Call [It was approved with the understanding that we can always return to the issue, if it needs tweaking. The group will consider the report (including the appendices – Charge & Activities, and SUL Web OPAC Development Process) as the guide to its activities. It will be refined as  feedback from the PSPC or CSUL is received.]
• Old Web OPAC development Process | Word (Removed after March 9, 2007 subcommittee conference call)-- Revision had been approved by PSPC on March 20, 2006 Conference Call [It was approved with the understanding that we can always return to the issue, if it needs tweaking. The group will consider the report (including the appendices – Charge & Activities, and SUL Web OPAC Development Process) as the guide to its activities. It will be refined asfeedback from the PSPC or CSUL is received.]
• SUL OPAC Development Timeline 1997-2006 (January 10, 2007)
  
• UPDATED STATEMENT OF CHARGE AND ACTIVITIES: March 9, 2007 Subcommittee Conference Call Minutes indicate "All reviewed the brief charge as stated online. Members in attendance decided to keep the brief charge and amend, offline, the current subcommittee activities to reflect current conditions (i.e., ENDECA, training, etc.).  Karen S. provided a list of suggested activities that the members reviewed and decided that this reflected current activities and could replace the out-of-date activities posted with the “brief charge” on the website."