Transcript Transitioning to DigiTool for E-reserves E-reserves and your Academic Library June 11, 2009 University of Guelph-Humber Presented by: Jennifer Peters-Lise, Metadata & Digital Services Librarian E-reserves at.

Transitioning to DigiTool
for E-reserves
E-reserves and your Academic Library
June 11, 2009
University of Guelph-Humber
Presented by:
Jennifer Peters-Lise, Metadata & Digital Services Librarian
E-reserves at Seneca
Primer
Sept 2004 – April 2005
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First e-reserves pilot
Blackboard Content System
10 nursing faculty
Links to research databases, licenses for scanned
articles, links to the items in the library
• Results – faculty loved the service, library staff hated
the software
Sept 2005 – Dec 2006
• Formed the E-reserves Research Committee
• Examined:
– Seneca’s current print reserves
– Canadian E-reserves Scan
• 17 existing e-reserves projects across Canada
– Available systems for e-reserves
E-reserves Prototypes
• Docutek
– cost, stand-alone system
• Blackboard Content System
– logical display, no cataloguing (just a filename), no reports, limited
statistics, reliant on ITT
• Voyager
– full cataloguing capability, results/browsing interface wasn’t great
E-reserves Prototypes – the winner
• Encompass
– Cataloguing workflow
• On-the-fly templates
• Hierarchical collection view
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Import MARC records
Similarity to ILS system
Already owned it, no extra hardware cost
Combines logical browsing of Blackboard with the cataloguing and
data control of Voyager
Encompass
• Spent 6 months customizing the system and UI,
training staff, creating our e-reserves system
• Great success among faculty, students and library
staff
Then Ex Libris bought Endeavor…
The End of Encompass
• Ex Libris announced they would no longer support
Encompass clients.
• We were offered Ex Libris’ digital library software
DigiTool for very little cost to make up for our
inconvenience
• Jan–Mar 2009 – Digitool installed, Encompass
records migrated, training for admin
• Spring 2009 – customizations began
Digitool features – similar to Encompass
• Cataloguing workflow
– On-the-fly templates
– hierarchical collection view
• Import MARC records
• Combines logical browsing of Blackboard with the
cataloguing and data control of Voyager
• Can link to a course readings list from Blackboard
Digitool features that are
better than Encompass
Host many collections from one site
Upload different manifestations of an item into the same record
Integrate cataloguing rules directly into the cataloguing client
Use various metadata schema and add local fields
Digitool features – better than Encompass
• Ingest module - upload records by spreadsheet, great for
student workers or anyone you don’t want to train on the
cataloguing module
• Deposit Module $$ – faculty can upload their own items
Things we don’t like about Digitool
• Private collections
• Creating courses and groupings
• Cataloguing Module scary for staff!
Current Digitool Status
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User testing
Finish customizations
Staff training
Full launch September 2009
This just in…Digitool is being replaced…
Jennifer Peters-Lise
[email protected]
IM & Yahoo: senlibjenn
Link to presentation
http://tinyurl.com/senecaereserves