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Putting the “M” in Mango

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NextGen Catalog at NCSU

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• Timeline– 2006 Feb - Directors saw NCSU’s Endeca and said

“Get it”– 2006 June - Endeca contract signed– 2007 Jan – Beta introduced– 2007 Aug – Production! Version 1.0

• 9.4 million records– 8 million from 11 Aleph catalogs– 1.4 million Center for Research Libraries – 28,000 digital collections (DigiTool and Greenstone)

Endeca Project Basics

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Three Components• Pre-Process Merging by FCLA

– Harvests bibliographic records from 11 Aleph catalogs, CRL, digital collections

– Includes de-duping catalog records by OCLC number• FORGE, DGIDX and MDEX processes by Endeca

– Delivers tagged data and search results to: • Web application by FCLA

MANGO (Metasearch and Next-Gen OPAC)– Presentation platform– Presents data from

• The MDEX Engine and• The Aleph ORACLE data

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MANGO

11 State University Libraries of Florida

ILLiad

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ILLiad

MANGO

11 State University Libraries of Florida

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Next Gen Features“Stealth Opacs” - most important feature of next gen catalog in 2007 survey -

Coined by David Pattern in his blog “Self-plagiarism is style”

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Starting on the Library Homepage

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Search takes user to MANGO

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Search results – mix of Endeca and FCLA functionality

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Delivery: map

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The Union Catalog

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More Features

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Languages and Characters

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Digital Collections in MANGO

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Delivery: requests now; Unmediated Borrowing soon

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And now for something completely different

MANGO search results embedded in a subject guide webpage

Are they using the catalog?

Mango Searches 2008-July

to 2009-June

14.7 M And CIRC stats are rising again

3.1 M for same time period

Compare to ALEPH OPAC Searches 2006-July to 2007-June

12.9 M and

NOTIS OPAC Searches2002 July to 2003-June

9.7 M

Recognize the device?…

In the palm of your hand

Mango on the IPhone

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Finally! the “M”arrives - Quick Articles

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Mango UIMango UI

DatabasesDatabases

Gets MetaLib Quickset ID for patron’s library

Formats query for MetaLib

Gets results from external databasesGenerates and returns XML

Info about databases (hit count)Search results from databasesCuster facets

Extract data from XML Formats and displays data

asynchronously with AJAX

query

results

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And that’s the Whole Mango!

Michele Newberry fclmin@ufl.edu

Special thanks to Josh Greben and Jean Phillips for contributions made to this content

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Or Not! SerialsSolutions Summon

After I sent in this presentation, one of our

libraries licensed

Summon so now we’re going to work

with them to make searching it be their brand

of Mango’s “M”