Using Resources Wisely – Rich Dreifuss (Geneseo)

OCLC Report on Online Catalogs
 
Catalog Reconstruction (Aleph 500 Cat)

• large team
• good management support
• took 6 months (met every 3 or weeks) – subcommittees did work
• used U Albany usability study
• book “Benchmarking for Best Practices”
• borrowed from U Albany (search options)
• Notre Dame (search forms)
• Duke (tabs)
• MIT (two-way sortable columns)
• used a wiki .. collecting ideas, ranking priority, process notes, changes, collect documents