Totally agreed.

Just reading through those email and feel we might off the topic.

If we want to go from location A to location B. There are so many 
choice: take bus, taxi, rent a car, buy a car, buy a leisure car, buy a 
air ticket,  rent a helicopter, or even buy your own aircraft.

I would more recommend to see what you really need (Requirement), how 
many budget do you have (Resource) and start from there.

BTW, here are some my opinions:
- If you do not have a solid technical development team, please don't 
choose open source.
- If you do not have a powerful budget, there is no need to compare with 
big organizations.
- Subscription service becomes more an more popular, it is worth to take 
a look.

Hope it helps.

-- 
Jing Xiao

Senior Programmer
L-1005, System, QEII Library
Memorial University, St. John's, NL, A1B 3Y1


On 9/20/2012 1:19 PM, Sean Hannan wrote:
> Every one of these sites is not going to work for everyone.
>
> Please conduct your own user research for your own audience.
>
> Our users, for example, have no interest in visualizations of search
> results.
>
> Our researchers actually want just a list of results. They are compiling
> bibliographies or reading lists and they honestly just want a really long
> page of titles and authors of what we have.
>
> -Sean
>
> On 9/20/12 11:03 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Every one of this suggestions has one major flaw, IMO. The primary
>> result of a search is a big set of bibliographic records -- more than
>> the user can possible look through. In some of them there are facets
>> available, but in no case is there any useful analysis of set in a
>> visualization that would allow the user to get a picture of what she has
>> retrieved. I'm thinking timelines, a la' WorldCat Identities or the Open
>> Library subject pages [1]. Also, none of them tell the user more about
>> the person or subject or work that they have retrieved. (At least, in
>> the views that I have seen.) I really think that lists of manifestations
>> just aren't good enough when searches bring up hundreds of results.
>>
>> kc
>> [1] some examples:
>> http://openlibrary.org/subjects/halley%27s_comet
>> http://openlibrary.org/subjects/place:istanbul_%28turkey%29
>> and see others at: http://openlibrary.org/subjects
>> or look for your favorites
>>
>>
>> On 9/20/12 6:03 AM, Hamilton, Gill wrote:
>>> My current fav is Digital NZ
>>> http://www.digitalnz.org/
>>>
>>> Gill
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> Gill Hamilton
>>> Digital Access Manager
>>> National Library of Scotland
>>> Edinburgh, Scotland
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>> Tania Fersenheim
>>> Sent: 19 September 2012 20:00
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers
>>>
>>> Got a favorite discovery interface?  Send me the URL
>>>
>>> I am doing some quick & dirty investigation into libraries that have
>>> successfully and elegantly integrated discovery of various resources,
>>> e.g.:
>>>
>>>    - library catalog
>>>    - federated indexing service such as  Serials Solutions or Primo
>>> Central, or a federated search system like Metalib
>>>    - ejournals
>>>    - ebooks
>>>    - libguides
>>>    - library web site
>>>    - worldcat local
>>>    - that kind o' stuff
>>>
>>> I am looking for sites that are both nice to look at and seem easy to
>>> use.  I will assume that if you're touting your own site it is
>>> technologically sophisticated.  :-D  Got any faves?
>>>
>>> Tania
>>>



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