Reconsidering OPAC
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Education Services Australia What place the OPAC in the future of resource discovery for education? Reconsidering the OPAC
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What is the place of the OPAC in the future of resource discovery for education? Slides for hands-on workshop tour of OPAC as a resource discovery interface. Participants evaluate aspects of their school’s resource discovery service, and discuss how the OPAC meets the needs of their school community.
Transcript of Reconsidering OPAC
Education Services Australia
What place the OPAC in the future of resource discovery for education?
Reconsidering the OPAC
1. Evaluate what we do now
2. Tour the search landscape
3. Describe the future
Do students and teachers need a school-based search tool?
School search test
where is the Year 9 maths exam from 2009?
find a class photo of 2011 school leavers when they entered the school.
who is the career counsellor at my child’s school?
does this school have a copy of Romeo and Juliet on video?
how do my students access DataGenie?
Learning architecture principlesa consistent experience for staff, students, parents and communities
access anytime, anywhere, by those who need the information
an authoritative source for each item of information
a capability for self-service MCEETYA 2003
Defining OPAC
Library catalogue of the Institute of Historical Research London 2010 NotFromUtrecht CC-by-sa
Purpose of OPAC
Location tool: find a known resource
Information finding tool: find topic information
Learning and literacy tool: meet learning needs
Asset management tool: manage resources
Selection tool: find resources to obtain/buy
Search
One search to bring them all
Dublin Core metadata
Learning Object Metadata
MARC
and in the OPAC bind them
OPAC
Criteria for OPAC
Access
Anywhere, anytime
Personalised
Mobile devices
Search interface
Intuitive
Branded
Context-aware
Search functionality
Did you mean?
Phrase search
Predictive terms
Results display
Faceted
Relevance & sort
No dead leads
Review OPACS
scis.edublogs.org
Scroll down right hand side column to
School Libraries
OPAC workshop
Add your wishlist items to the Wallwisher
www.wallwisher.com/wall/opacwish
School library catalogues
Creekview High School Library, USA
Wesley College, VIC
Citipointe Christian College, QLD
National catalogues
SCIS demo OPAC
Trove National Library of Australia
National Library of New Zealand
University and public librariesEdith Cowan University Library
University of Western Australia Library
Hauraki District Libraries NZ
OPAC 2.0: richer discovery
Harnessing more bibliographic data
Incorporating data from other sources
Social networkingPersonalisation
User community tagging User reviewing
Further readingKatie Wilson Jessamyn WestMorville & Callender: Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
Final word on filters
Clay Shirky 2007 by Joi cc-by-sa YouTube blip.tv
delicious.com/pru_mitchell/opac
