University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A Comparison of Searching Functionality of a VuFind Catalogue Implementation and the Traditional Catalogue

Skinner, Debra G.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/34604

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Title
A Comparison of Searching Functionality of a VuFind Catalogue Implementation and the Traditional Catalogue
Author(s)
Skinner, Debra G.
Issue Date
2012
Keyword(s)
  • Next-Generation Discovery and Access
  • Library Catalogs
Abstract
As of spring semester 2010, Georgia Southern University began using a VuFind implementation as the default access to the library catalogue on the library Web page while maintaining a secondary link to the traditional Voyager “classic” catalogue. VuFind is an opensource product that has been adopted and adapted by all the state universities and colleges in the state of Georgia. For approximately ten years, Georgia libraries have used Voyager as their catalogue, and it remains available to users as the “classic” search option. This report examines the local VuFind implementation compared to the more traditional Voyager implementation, emphasizing the differences in the searching capabilities of each.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34604
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0031
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2012 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 61 (1) Summer 2012: Next-Generation Discovery and Access in Library Catalogs PRIMARY
Library Trends 61 (1) Summer 2012: Next-Generation Discovery and Access in Library Catalogs. Edited by Kathryn La Barre.