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Does VuFind Meet the Needs of Web 2.0 Users?: A Year After

Does VuFind Meet the Needs of Web 2.0 Users?: A Year After

Birong Ho
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466619128|ISBN10: 1466619120|EISBN13: 9781466619135
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1912-8.ch005
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Ho, Birong. "Does VuFind Meet the Needs of Web 2.0 Users?: A Year After." Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape, edited by Jesus Tramullas and Piedad Garrido, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 100-120. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1912-8.ch005

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Ho, B. (2013). Does VuFind Meet the Needs of Web 2.0 Users?: A Year After. In J. Tramullas & P. Garrido (Eds.), Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape (pp. 100-120). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1912-8.ch005

Chicago

Ho, Birong. "Does VuFind Meet the Needs of Web 2.0 Users?: A Year After." In Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape, edited by Jesus Tramullas and Piedad Garrido, 100-120. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1912-8.ch005

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Abstract

With new Web tools, information can be released to flow in every direction (library to user, user to library, library to library, and user to user). Western Michigan University (WMU) implemented VuFind as the primary OPAC interface for its Voyager system in September 2009. VuFind includes many Web 2.0 catalog features such as user tagging, comments, and reviews, as well as “more like this” and “Did you mean?” Having relied in the past on vendors with relatively restrictive licenses and indexes, and being mindful that Voyager does not allow users to write to its database tables (i.e. to allow more community participation in describing what is in the catalog), WMU chose the open source VuFind. Originally developed at Villanova’s Falvey Memorial Library to work with Voyager; VuFind now has a community of libraries that have implemented and improved it. This chapter discusses some of the Web 2.0 services and functions that VuFind provides, and how examines how they are being used at WMU. User access logs are analyzed, and the use of tagging is examined. There was undoubtedly a significant degree of hype around VuFind a year ago, but what is the reality one year after implementation?

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