OPACs through the Ages

Tedd, Lucy A.

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“…OPACs were initially developed by advanced and technically sophisticated users. Development began in the United States in the 1970s with work by major universities and library institutions such as the United States Library of Congress, with support provided by United States government grants (Tedd 1994). Until…”

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Determinants of User Innovation and Innovation Sharing in a Local Market

2000

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It is known that end users of products and services sometimes innovate, and that innovations developed by users sometimes become the basis for important newcommercial products and services. It has also been argued and to some extent shown that such innovations will be found concentrated in a "lead user" segment of the user community. However, neither the characteristics of innovating users nor the scope of the community that they "lead" has been explored in depth. In this paper, we explore the characteristics of innovation, innovators, and innovation sharing by library users of OPAC information search systems in Australia. This market has capable users, but it is nonetheless clearly a "follower" with respect to worldwide technological advance. Wefind that 26% of users in this local market nonetheless do modify their OPACs in both major and minor ways, and that OPAC manufacturers judge many of these user modifications to be of commercial interest. We find that we can distinguish modifying from nonmodifying users on the basis of a number of factors, including their "leading-edge status" and their in-house technical capabilities. We find that many innovating users freely share their innovations with others, and find that we can distinguish users that share information about their modifications from users that do not. We conclude by considering some implications of our findings for idea generation practices in marketing.lead users, idea generation, new product development

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Section: Study Sample and Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of User Innovation and Innovation Sharing in a Local Market

2000

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“…Development began in the United States in the 1970s with work by major universities and the Library of Congress, with support provided by grants from the federal government (Tedd 1994). Until roughly 1978, the only such systems extant were those that had been developed by libraries for their own use.…”

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“…In the late 1970s, the first commercial providers of computerized search systems for libraries appeared in the United States, and by 1985 there were at least 48 OPAC vendors in the United States alone (Matthews 1985). In Australia (site of the study sample), OPAC adoption began about 8 years later than in the United States (Tedd 1994).…”

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Democratizing Innovation

2020

Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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“…Such initiatives tended to produce catalogue records for participating libraries either in Computer Output Microfilm (COM) or on catalogue cards to be consolidated with the other catalogue cards. Enthused by developments across the Atlantic, a series of similar initiatives, some more successful than others, were developed in the UK, including the Birmingham Libraries Cooperative Mechanisation Project (BLCMP), South West Academic Libraries Cooperative Automation Project (SWALCAP), and the Scottish Libraries Cooperative Automation Project (SCOLCAP) (Tedd, 1994). Of course, by 1979 the shared cataloguing system used by OCLC had attracted libraries, not just from across the USA, but from across the world, and by 1981 OCLC decided to change their name to the OCLC Online Computer Library Center (Jordan, 2003).…”

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Towards improved performance and interoperability in distributed and physical union catalogues

Macgregor

Nicolaides

2005

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Structured AbstractPurpose of this paper: This paper details research undertaken to determine the key differences in the performance of certain centralised (physical) and distributed (virtual) bibliographic catalogue services, and to suggest strategies for improving interoperability and performance in, and between, physical and virtual models.Design/methodology/approach: Methodically defined searches of a centralised catalogue service and selected distributed catalogues were conducted using the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol, allowing search types to be semantically defined. The methodology also entailed the use of two workshops comprising systems librarians and cataloguers to inform suggested strategies for improving performance and interoperability within both environments. Findings:Technical interoperability was permitted easily between centralised and distributed models, however the various individual configurations permitted only limited semantic interoperability.Significant prescription in cataloguing and indexing guidelines, greater participation in the Program for Collaborative Cataloging (PCC), consideration of future 'FRBR' migration, and greater disclosure to end users are some of the suggested strategies to improve performance and semantic interoperability. Practical implications:This paper informs the LIS research community and union catalogue administrators, but also has numerous practical implications for those establishing distributed systems based on Z39.50 and SRW, as well as those establishing centralised systems.What is original/value of the paper?: The paper moves the discussion of Z39.50 based systems away from anecdotal evidence and provides recommendations based on testing and is intimately informed by the UK cataloguing and systems librarian community. 1This paper is published in 'Program: electronic library and information systems ', Vol.39, No.3, 2005, pp.227-247. IntroductionUnion catalogues are by no means a new phenomenon. As Cannel and Guy (2001) As with most technical service models, each has numerous advantages and disadvantages. Some of these have been widely documented in the literature for some time (Cousins, 1999;Nicholson, 2000;Stubley et al, 2001;Gatenby, 2002;Friesen, 2002;Taylor, 2003) or examined (Moen, 2001a; 2 This paper is published in 'Program: electronic library and information systems ', Vol.39, No.3, 2005, pp.227-247. Still, although Z39.50 has a long history, it is far from outmoded. As Taylor (2003) notes and predicts, Z39.50 may have peculiar problems but it remains capable of adapting to new environments and will experience wider deployment within the LIS sector and beyond for many years. Such predictions are certainly manifest in wider LIS deployment. As in many information rich countries, the UK is experiencing an increasing deployment of Z39.50 applications. While this is most marked in academic and research libraries, it is extending also to Further Education (FE) Colleges, public libraries and lifelong learning institutions. For example, t...

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OPACs through the Ages

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Determinants of User Innovation and Innovation Sharing in a Local Market

Determinants of User Innovation and Innovation Sharing in a Local Market

Democratizing Innovation

Towards improved performance and interoperability in distributed and physical union catalogues

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