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Delivering Library Services to Distant Users
the End User Desktop at the UA libraries
Jan CorthoutsUniversity of Antwerp
Library focus
• Primary focus is on published materials– Print– Licensed material
• Abstract and Index databases• Electronic journals
• Goal– Make resources available over the network– Creating additional layer of services – Sustainable and open systems– Primary audience: distant users
Services to distant users
• New services– Reference linking (see earlier paper A. Jacobs)
• Link to holdings from local library catalogue • Link to electronic copy of journal article• Link to photocopy request and e-delivery
– E-learning environment– Institutional repositories
• Traditional services– Awareness– Loan and Interlibrary loan
What we need
• Common platform for end user services– Library
• Publish the services dynamically• Maintain the services
– Easy– Sustainable– Shared responsibility
– End User• Easy to use • Integrated within the institutional web environment• Integrated within the e-learning environment
End User Desktop
• Part of library system Brocade – Multiple desktops– Publish
• Brocade applications• Non-Brocade applications/services
• Driven by– Parameters and attributes – CSS (Cascading Style Sheets )
Destop attributes
• Authentication– Against userid/password held within Brocade
application– Against other combinations (e.g. birth date
and barcode)– Against insitutional directory (e.g. LDAP
server): in development
• Automatic logout after periode of inactivity• Menu (and submenus) for navigation
Desktop services
• Brocade applications– Personal data– Documents on loan – Documents on hold– Self renewal– Circulation lists
Desktop services
• In development• Stack requests• ILL requests• Place hold on documents in loan• Suggestions for new acquisitions• Alerting service
Destop services
• Brocade catalogues– General catalogue– Specialised subsets
• Electronic resources• Abstract and Index databases
– Available over the Web– Available through Windows terminal service (Citrix)
Electronic resources
• Catalogued in the database
• Special attributes– Source (Elsevier, Swets Blackwell, Ingenta,
…)– Location (URL)– Access code
• Audience for which the link needs to be displayed
– Caption
Electronic resources
• Separate search environment– Dynamically produced from the general
catalogue– Extra features
• List of e-journals by subject
Abstract and Index databases
• Separate navigation menu
• Dynamically produced from Brocade– Catalogue description– Startup parameters especially for Windows
Terminal Services