Library Hi Tech: Volume 27 Issue 1

Conference contrasts

This editorial seeks to compare the German Bibliothekartag, the American Library Association Annual Meeting, and the International Federation of Library Associations meeting.

Making the new OPAC seamless: dealing with the transition from “finding” to “getting”

This paper aims to describe the process of development undertaken by the State Library of Tasmania to provide a new generation OPAC – TALISPlus.

Subjecting the catalog to tagging

The purpose of this paper is to present the implementation of LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) in an academic library and analysis of usage of LTFL data and their potential for…

Accessing information in a parliamentary environment: is the OPAC dead?

Access to library collections in an era where users want to “get” rather than “find” offers particular challenges. This paper seeks to explore users' needs for bibliographic…

Project Blacklight: a next generation library catalog at a first generation university

This paper sets out to provide an overview of the open source online public access catalog (OPAC) software known as Blacklight. It includes a discussion of the reasons why the…

The new cooperative cataloging

This paper aims to examine the social phenomenon known as tagging and its use in libraries' online catalogs, discussing folksonomies, social bookmarking, and tagging web sites…

LibraryThing for libraries at Claremont

The purpose of this paper is to share the experience of implementing LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) at the Claremont University Consortium's libraries, the first US academic…

Implementing VuFind as an alternative to Voyager's WebVoyage interface: One library's experience

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of what is involved in implementing the VuFind discovery tool.

The VuFind implementation at Villanova University

This case study seeks to document the experiences of Villanova University's Falvey Library staff as they developed and implemented the VuFind open source discovery tool for…

Tracking repetitive use of electronic reserve items: Using electronic reserves repetitive use information to help gauge copyright compliance

The purpose of this paper is to share findings on how to track the recurring use of items placed on electronic reserve over a period of time using the Create Lists application in…

One box to search them all: Implementing federated search at an academic library

The purpose of this paper is to present how, in May 2008, the Ad Hoc Committee on Federated Search was formed to prepare a preliminary report on federated searching for a special…

A mobile video service trial: TOEST

The purpose of this paper is to introduce Commercial Mobile Video Service Trial (TOEST) of Korea Telecom (KT), relaying experience related to the implementation of mobile video…

Item‐level usage statistics: A review of current practices and recommendations for normalization and exchange

The purpose of this paper is to present how the JISC Usage Statistics Review Project aims to formulate a fundamental scheme for recording usage data and to propose a standard for…

Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice

Introduction