As much as we love snacks, there’s another reason we’re here. Soon, we’ll all be embarking on a journey to our new automation system.
‘What will it do?’ you may be wondering. Millennium will replace CL-CAT, GeoWeb, and the Plus Circulation Client. It will change the way many things are handled in tech services, such as withdrawals and fund accounting. It will feature a new way to handle ILL.
Today I’d like to tell you about the Online Catalog portion of Millennium. It will make it easier for patrons to find the items they’re looking for, and give them a lot of choices in their searches, such as looking only for books in the children’s department, or only for items that are “on shelf,” and so on. Features such as relevancy ranking and spell check will help searching our catalog work more like searching Google or Amazon.com. Patrons will be able to pay fines online with a credit card, create “favorite” searches, and more.
Millennium will also look very different from our current system. I can’t tell you yet exactly what it will look like; there are a lot of factors that will influence that. What I can do is show you some examples of how it looks in other libraries. These don’t look quite like our Millennium will, either, since we’re getting a newer version. Consider this a “sneak peek” at the possibilities. The photo above is my keyword search in Skokie PL’s Millennium catalog for “harry potter.” (Click on it for a larger image.)
‘What will it do?’ you may be wondering. Millennium will replace CL-CAT, GeoWeb, and the Plus Circulation Client. It will change the way many things are handled in tech services, such as withdrawals and fund accounting. It will feature a new way to handle ILL.
Today I’d like to tell you about the Online Catalog portion of Millennium. It will make it easier for patrons to find the items they’re looking for, and give them a lot of choices in their searches, such as looking only for books in the children’s department, or only for items that are “on shelf,” and so on. Features such as relevancy ranking and spell check will help searching our catalog work more like searching Google or Amazon.com. Patrons will be able to pay fines online with a credit card, create “favorite” searches, and more.
Millennium will also look very different from our current system. I can’t tell you yet exactly what it will look like; there are a lot of factors that will influence that. What I can do is show you some examples of how it looks in other libraries. These don’t look quite like our Millennium will, either, since we’re getting a newer version. Consider this a “sneak peek” at the possibilities. The photo above is my keyword search in Skokie PL’s Millennium catalog for “harry potter.” (Click on it for a larger image.)
Try these links for a chance to look at other Millennium catalogs. Search for "good to great," "lean mean thirteen," "global warming," or "foreign trade" to get a taste of relevancy ranking and the Millennium search process.
Skokie Public Library http://catalog.skokielibrary.info/search
Westerville Public Library http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/
University of Michigan http://www.bus.umich.edu/KresgeLibrary/
Yale University School of Law http://morris.law.yale.edu/
University of Michigan http://www.bus.umich.edu/KresgeLibrary/
Yale University School of Law http://morris.law.yale.edu/
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