Building web-based library catalog using open source library system

The library automation marketplace is currently witnessing aggressive movements towards open source environment. This paper showcases the progress of two projects using open source library solutions in enhancing access to the collections at the Hamzah Fansuri Resource Centre, Kulliyyah of ICT, IIUM....

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Main Authors:	Mansor, Yushiana, Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
Format:	Monograph
Language:	English
Published:	s.n 2012
Subjects:	Z719 Libraries (General) ZA Information resources
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/36030/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36030/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36030/1/EDW_A12-589-1380.pdf

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spelling	iium-360302015-05-13T08:12:08Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/36030/ Building web-based library catalog using open source library system Mansor, Yushiana Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Z719 Libraries (General) ZA Information resources The library automation marketplace is currently witnessing aggressive movements towards open source environment. This paper showcases the progress of two projects using open source library solutions in enhancing access to the collections at the Hamzah Fansuri Resource Centre, Kulliyyah of ICT, IIUM. The first project involved using the Koha library management system, and the second, using Dspace for digital library development. Several issues related to open-source project management were experienced, particularly in the context of a small-sized library with minimal staff support. The fast movement towards digital library environment has resulted into mushrooming number of institutional repositories especially in academic, educational, and research institutions. At the same time, discovering resources in the various repositories is time-consuming and tedious requiring users to become familiar with the various digital repositories set up. In addition, it is typical that within an organization, repositories have been developed in isolation using different practices and implementation design. Harnessing the full potential of intellectual capital of the organizational community becomes problematic as federated search across the disparate databases is not possible due to several factors including interoperability. Consequently, interoperability has since becomes an important design consideration in networked library development. The paper also reports on the feasibility of harvesting organizational repositories using open source s.n 2012-12-18 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36030/1/EDW_A12-589-1380.pdf Mansor, Yushiana and Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham (2012) Building web-based library catalog using open source library system. Research Report. s.n, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) EDW A12-589-1380
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description	The library automation marketplace is currently witnessing aggressive movements towards open source environment. This paper showcases the progress of two projects using open source library solutions in enhancing access to the collections at the Hamzah Fansuri Resource Centre, Kulliyyah of ICT, IIUM. The first project involved using the Koha library management system, and the second, using Dspace for digital library development. Several issues related to open-source project management were experienced, particularly in the context of a small-sized library with minimal staff support. The fast movement towards digital library environment has resulted into mushrooming number of institutional repositories especially in academic, educational, and research institutions. At the same time, discovering resources in the various repositories is time-consuming and tedious requiring users to become familiar with the various digital repositories set up. In addition, it is typical that within an organization, repositories have been developed in isolation using different practices and implementation design. Harnessing the full potential of intellectual capital of the organizational community becomes problematic as federated search across the disparate databases is not possible due to several factors including interoperability. Consequently, interoperability has since becomes an important design consideration in networked library development. The paper also reports on the feasibility of harvesting organizational repositories using open source
format	Monograph
author	Mansor, Yushiana Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
author_facet	Mansor, Yushiana Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
author_sort	Mansor, Yushiana
title	Building web-based library catalog using open source library system
title_short	Building web-based library catalog using open source library system
title_full	Building web-based library catalog using open source library system
title_fullStr	Building web-based library catalog using open source library system
title_full_unstemmed	Building web-based library catalog using open source library system
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