Oceanside, CA Installation for BiblioCommons Officialy Launched; Coming Soon to Boston Public Library?
In the post directly below this one we mentioned that BiblioCommons, a "social" catalog and social discovery tool/technology, was now being used at the Oceanside, California Public Library. It went live in June. You can give it a go here.
A 2009 article by Marshall Breeding is an excellent read and offers a nice sized helping of BiblioCommons information. He goes into details about funding, technology, and other issues.
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BiblioCommons requires underlying ILS technology (for example: SIRSI/Dynix, Ex Libris, etc.) but operates separately. Marshall Breeding says that BiblioCommons takes a "fairly radical departure" vs. products like Primo and AquaBrowser.
...data from the ILS of each participating library loads into a centralized site. From the perspective of the patron, the library may scope the search to a given library or region, but the fundamental concept of BiblioCommons involves broadly shared data. In addition to harvesting basic bibliographic records, BiblioCommons harvests holdings and item-level data as well as authority records. Even though BiblioCommons relies on a shared bibliographic database, it preserves and indexes any locally created cataloging.
Also officially launched three weeks ago, is a BiblioCommons installation at the Oceanside, CA (a suburb of San Diego) Public Library. You can take a look here.
Three weeks ago we linked to several presentations about "social catalogs" presented at the Canadian Library Association Annual Conference in June. They're all linked here and are all well worthy of your time.
2) A tweet from May (and the fact that BiblioCommons follows the Boston Public Library) leads us to believe that BiblioCommons is coming (at some point) to the Boston Public Library.
Finally, one thing that hasn't changed since Oder's LJ article in 2008 is the fact that BiblioCommons still only has one web page.
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