VuFind as a discovery option

Discovery Tools for Health Libraries

Lucy Vaux-Harvey – Customer Services ConsultantKeith Shell – Business Development Manager

Nick Dimant – Managing Director

PTFS Europe• Formed in 2007• Focus on library technologies and innovation• User base right across Europe• Currently growing at 35% p.a.• Expertise in open source software• Also promote our own products

PTFS EuropeProducts:• Koha library management system• Rebus:list resource management• Explorit• RT: Request Tracker• VuFind resource discoveryVuFind resource discovery• WordPress for libraries• Evergreen library management system• ArchivalWare digital archive• CUFTS ERM• Rebus:tutorial

Customers in the Health Sector

Health sector customersBASE library consortium

(23 NHS libraries throughout Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country)

Better Value Health CareCAMLISCoventry and Warwickshire NHS:

(University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust)

Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDepartment of Health Dyslexia ActionHerefordshire Clinical Library and Worcestershire Health LibrariesKettering NHS Foundation TrustKings FundMedicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)Public Health EnglandRoyal Pharmaceutical SocietySouth London Health Libraries

(South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

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VuFind Discovery• Open source environment• Single point of access to range of information:

– library catalogue– eBooks and subscription sources– local digital archives and repositories

• Records are harvested and then indexed• Real time availability• Web services links to resources such as from Ebsco or

ProQuest• Supports differing consortial views• Mobile friendly – Bootstrap framework

• Project management• Installation and configuration• Establishing data harvesting• Web services integration• Ongoing hosting and support

PTFS Europe’s role

PTFS Europe Discovery partnerships

• Deep Web Technologies Reseller• EBSCO Reciprocal Technology Partner• ProQuest

Demo 1VuFind connecting multiple

institutions

Demo 1VuFind connecting multiple

institutions• Multiple institutions• Record de-duplication and merging• Koha and Millenium LMS’s• MARC21 and UNIMARC

Demo 2VuFind connected to subscription

data

Demo 2VuFind connected to subscription

data• OneSearch option• Library catalogue• Summon• EDS

VuFind as a discovery option

Discovery Tools for Health Libraries

Lucy Vaux-Harvey – Customer Services ConsultantKeith Shell – Business Development Manager

Nick Dimant – Managing Directornick.dimant@ptfs-europe.comnick.dimant@ptfs-europe.com

Demo Sites

VuFind connecting multiple institutions

VuFind connected to subscription data