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Enhancing your OPAC with Third-Party Applications

Carrie Volk

Winthrop University

November 13th 2008

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OPAC Enhancements

Meebo IM/Chat in the OPAC ClioWeb and WebBridge Interface Small Changes – Big Impact

Link to ILL login on patronview_web.html Add course reserve button to toplogo.html

DacusMaps - Beta

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Meebo - How We Started…

http://www.meebo.com/

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Meebo IM/Chat in OPAC

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Meebo as Popup Box Can chat while working Less chance of losing

guests due to refresh. Count page hits for stats

w/Google Analytics Control when widget is

accessible to patron and provide off hours email

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ColdFusion

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OPAC Pages

Add highlighted code to 2 pages – toplogo.html and toplogologgedin.html

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ColdFusion

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Meebo – User Interface

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WebBridge and ClioWeb

ClioWeb went live in August 2006.

OpenURL ordering capabilities added May 2007

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.winthrop.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=34741300&site=ehost-live

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WebBridge and ClioWeb

Sending OpenURL data directly to ClioWeb form (i.e. Worldcat Local, Google Scholar, etc.)

Routing data to the WebBridge link resolver, and then sending to ClioWeb via “Order via ILL” link in WB panel.

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What’s WebBridge’s Problem?

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It’s All in the Concatenation

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Created separate field selectors for ClioWeb author and page info

Added a few new ones just for ILL use while we were at it

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WebBridge and ClioWeb

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The End Result

Articles stats that doubled in the first year

Very happy patrons – one click ordering

Extremely happy ILL staff

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Small Changes…Big Impact

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Small Changes…Big Impact

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DacusMaps - Beta

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http://tinyurl.com/5wr6dw

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Final Comments

Don’t be afraid to “fuss” with things in your OPAC… Just remember to backup everything first!

Questions?volkc@winthrop.edu