Catalogs,+next+generation+catalog

Host - Kurt Wagner [William Paterson University of New Jersey] Moderator - Anand Vadul [Storybunny]

http://www.librarytechnology.org/automationhistory.pl
 * 1 Timeline of Library ILS Vendors - Marshall Breeding :**

At the end user librarians are currently dissatisfied with the unresponsiveness of the vendor. It is also a large cost per annum ~ 30-50k pa People started looking for alternavies


 * 2 Next Generation Catalogs :**

The Library Corporation created [|Aquabrowser] - A layer on the curent ILS [|http://aqua.queenslibrary.org]
 * 2.1 Commerical**

Endeca Powered system - McMaster and NCSU [|http://libcat.mcmaster.ca] [|http://www.lib.ncsu.edu] Fosters discovery by exposing more of MARC content to user- Library 2.0 Catalog.
 * 2.2 Commercial Search Engine based :**

Georgia Public Libraries - A bunch of programmers who went live with home grown version of ILS End of 2006 Called Evergreen [Implemented by the Pines Group] [|http://www.open-ils.org]
 * 2.3 Open Source**

Being used by Georigia Pines. Pines creates a user friendly rich way of getting into the user content. VALE is now looking into the feasability of using it. (Whitepaper: http://www.valenj.org/newvale/ols/ ) - Reports are run as queires against a postgresql - Control is still @ the programmatic level and not nearly at the level of librarians. http:// www.vufind.org - Lucene based opensource NLS by Villanova.

[|http://www.koha.org] Open source - but support can be bought from 3rd party - [|LibLime] http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/ Opensource programmers for creating an ILS.

- Mellon Institute is providing a grant for developing ILS : They are interested in a full ILS - Extensible Catalog ([|http://extensiblecatalog.info)] is a user based front end.
 * 3. Next Generation Landscape**