Commonweal Archives, Library, University of Bradford. The PaxCat Project, Library, University of Bradford. SkyRiver Technology Solutions. SkyRiver is a full service bibliographic utility that connects libraries with the metadata they need to catalog library collections. Designed and optimized by technical and library experts with input from technical services librarians in the field, the SkyRiver interface is intuitive and easy to use, allowing libraries to simplify workflows and increase efficiency.
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Services SkyRiver cataloging services include: Open Data Use Policy RDA Support. After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Sof. By Marc Parry Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. So you might think that typing his name into Virgo, Virginia's online library catalog, would start you off with a book about him. Jean A. Bauer tried it the other night. At the top of the results list were papers from a physics conference in Brazil. The problem is that traditional online library catalogs don't tend to order search results by ranked relevance, and they can befuddle users with clunky interfaces. That's changing because of two technology trends. Second, Virginia and several other colleges, including Villanova University and the University of Rochester, are producing free open-source programs that tackle the same problems with no licensing fees.
A key feature of this software genre is that it helps you make sense of data through "faceted" searching, common when you shop online for a new jacket or a stereo system. These products can also rank search results by relevance and use prompts of "Did you mean … ? " Mr. News: Libraries of the Future - Inside Higher Ed. “We're already starting to see a move on the part of university libraries... to outsource virtually all the services [they have] developed and maintained over the years,” Greenstein said. Now, with universities everywhere still ailing from last year's economic meltdown, administrators are more likely than ever to explore the dramatic restructuring of library operations. Within the decade, he said, groups of universities will have shared print and digital repositories where they store books they no longer care to manage. “There are national discussions about how and to what extent we can begin to collaborate institutionally to share the cost of storing and managing books,” he said.
“That trend should keeping continuing as capital funding is scarce, as space constraints are severe, especially on urban campuses — and, frankly, as funding needs to flow into other aspects of the academic program.” Greenstein said he expects universities to outsource other library duties as well.