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DATE: November 4, 2008

GROUP: Next Generation Catalog Interest Group

CHAIR: Sharon Shafer

REPORTER: Sharon Shafer

EMAIL: sshafer@library.ucla.edu

CONFERENCE: Annual

MEETING: IG Business Meeting

PROGRAM_TITLE: Next Steps in Next Generation Catalogs

ATTENDEES: 75

CURRENT_ACTIVITIES:

• Next Steps in Next Generation Catalogs
• LITA
• Presenters: Karen Schneider, Sara Davidson & Amy Kautzman
• Handouts: Next Generation Melvyl Pilot (PPT)

We discussed two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors. Karen Schneider (Evangelist for Equinox's Evergreen support) shared what she does as an Evangelist by giving some real world, grounded information on how "Running a Free and Open Source Software ILS does Not Equate to a Tightrope Act with No Net".

Sara Davidson and Amy Kautzman (Members of UC/OCLC Pilot Implementation Team) presented "Launching a Next-Generation Consortial Catalog".

What can you produce when you bring together 10 University of California campuses, the California Digital Library (CDL), an existing union catalog (Melvyl), Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), multiple task groups and the efforts of numerous individuals? In our case, the result is the Next-Generation Melvyl pilot which draws together content from UC's existing union catalog and provides it on OCLC's WorldCat Local Platform. We will review the implementation process, the challenges encountered, beneficial features, and next steps.

A brief IG business meeting followed the discussion. You can see the powerpoints and handouts at the ALA presentation wiki: http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=Monday%2C_June_30

FUTURE_ACTIVITIES:

We're looking to identify the current issues and innovations surrounding next generation catalogs and to invite experts to share and discuss with the interest group.