Villanova implemented a model like this with VuFind.  Eric, you should
recall the Augustinian bibliography project that Notre Dame was involved
in.  Here is an example:
http://findingaugustine.org/

The new project that I am involved with, FOLIO, could supporting this
concept. The data model behind FOLIO, the FOLIO Codex, looks to combine
multiple "knowledgebases" of works.  For example, the LOC or a library
catalog could be considered a knowledgebase.  Organizations, libraries,
vendors, etc can then publish knowledgebases to be consumed or leveraged by
other groups.  The great thing is these collections will be using the
BIBFRAME model rather than MARC! For example, the Augustinian bibliography
(which is not MARC) could be published as a knowledgebase that could then
be consumed by libraries who are using FOLIO to manage their collection.
You could then put VuFind on top of the collection and make it publicly
accessible.

The FOLIO data model and supporting applications should be ready early next
year - would be fun to play with this concept and prove it out.

Andrew


On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Interesting idea. I have hear some special collections and arrives that do
> something with printable finding aids although they serve a slightly
> different purpose. I need to think about what the specific use case would
> be, but it doesn't seem like it would be a ton of work to do this.
>
> Incidentally, while not really the same idea, many years ago I investigated
> using VUFind to do something like this. Obviously, it wasn't printable but
> people could search just out multimedia collection and I also experimented
> with doing this with the collection of educational resources. I changed
> jobs before it was implemented, but in testing it seemed pretty usefully -
> especially the multimedia collection since in out catalog at the time they
> were hidden and being a residential campus, students liked to borrow ones
> that were not only educational, but entertaining. Of course this was before
> Netflix, et al. existed.
>
> Edward
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I think a “kewl” (as well as cool) idea is the creation of mini-catalogs.
> >
> > Our libraries have large collection. That’s nice. But often the
> > student/scholar only wants to look at a smaller subset of the collection.
> > For example, they might want to look at only the books about painting.
> > Alternatively, they might want to only look at items in a particular sub
> > collection — a “special” collection. Unfortunately, and to the best of my
> > knowledge, our library catalogs are not really amenable to such things.
> >
> > In order to facilitate greater use & understanding of these sub
> > collections, I think it would be fun to:
> >
> >   1. dump all the MARC records describing a sub collection
> >
> >   2. generate a set of text files intended for printing,
> >      and these text files would manifest a VERY traditional
> >      library catalog [1]
> >
> >   3. generate a computer-searchable index designed to be
> >      used by a hand-held device [2]
> >
> >   4. promote the use & availability of the outputs of
> >      Steps #2 & #3
> >
> > What’s kewl is that the text files can be given away, printed, and even
> > (“Gasp!”) written in. They require zero technology, and can last a long,
> > long time. Heck, they are even portable and copies can be placed at the
> > head of the collection(s). In days of old, librarians paid hundreds of
> > dollars for these sorts of “catalogs”. They can still be valuable today.
> >
> > What’s more, the computer-searchable indexes and can be carried into the
> > stacks and used like a Star Trek tricorder to home in and browse the
> > collection(s). A bar code reader on the “tricorder” would be a helpful
> > interface.
> >
> > Fun with the blending of newer and older library techniques?
> >
> > [1] example set of printed catalogs/indexes -
> > http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/pamphlets2indexes/
> > [2] example computer-searchable index - http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/
> > pamphlets2analysis/search.cgi
> >
> > —
> > Eric Morgan
> > University of Notre Dame
> >
>