1. ALA MIDWINTER
Update on Industry, Systems, and Discovery
Marshall Breeding
Independent Consult, Author,
Founder and Publisher, Library Technology
Guides
www.librarytechnology.org/
twitter.com/mbreeding
08 February 2013 ALA Midwinter Technology Wrap-up

2. Mergers and Acquisitions
 No earth-shattering announcements
 ProQuest acquires Ebook Library (EBL) and
will combine with ebrary
 Some organizational consolidation
 Innovative Interfaces: Remaining shares of
founder acquired by private equity investors

3. Library Services Platforms
 Many well into production mode:
 Sierra: ~100 libraries in Production
 OCLC WorldShare Management Services: ~ 100
 Ex Libris Alma: ~5 in production
 Still in development
 Serials Solutions Intota
 Kuali OLE
 New round of funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
 New entrant:
 VTLS Open Skies: company morphing its current line
of products into a comprehensive platform based on
SOA

4. Integrated Library Systems
 Evolutionary development
 Appropriate infrastructure for public libraries
 New emphasis on deep integration with
external systems and services
 E-booklending services
 Web-scale discovery indexes

5. E-Book integration
 Develop technologies that bring the e-book
lending within the experience of the local
library
 Offer the same functionality for e-books
within online catalogs, discovery services,
and the library’s general Web presence as
offered for print versions
 Provide the same level of mastery and
control
 Don’t eject library users to the mercy of
native e-book lending platforms

6. Basic expectations:
 Discovery of e-books within the same search results as other
library materials
 Load records for e-books into ILS or discovery service
 Display current availability status of e-books and request to be placed in hold
queue
 Real-time interactions with e-book lending platform
 Patron can view status of e-book loans from their library account or profile
 Real-time interactions between e-book lending platform and local ILS
 Patrons can activate loan request from library’s own catalog or discovery
 Ability to fully interact with e-book lending platform via API
 Don’t force patrons to have (or know that they have) a separate account for the
e-book lending platform or DRM utility
 Leverage the username and PIN/password used for other library activities
 Consistent with ReadersFirst Content Access Requirements
 http://readersfirst.org/ReadersFirst-Content-Access-Requirements.pdf

7. E-book APIs
 Application Programming Interface
 OverDrive API
 Earlierpragmatic (screen-scraping)
attempts by third parties to integrate e-
book lending experience
 Announced intent to release API in May
2012
 3m Cloud Library
 Baker & Taylor Axis 360

8. OverDrive API
https://developer.overdrive.com/
 APIs offered:
 Library Account API
 Retailer Account API
 Search API
https://developer.overdrive.com/apis/search
 Metadata API
 Library Availability API
 Not offered:
 API to perform e-book loans
 Checkout
 Return

9. Integration Partnerships
 Polaris Library Systems
 3M Cloud Library (In production: Sno-Isle
Libraries)
 SirsiDynix eResource Central
 Axis
360, Recorded Books, OverDrive, 3M
Cloud Library
 The Library Corporation
 LS2PAC: Place Holds and check out e-books
(3M, OverDrive, Axis 360)
 BiblioCommons
 3M Cloud Library, OverDrive

10. Metadata for e-book collections
 The Library Corporation
eBiblioFile service to deliver
catalog records to support e-book
lending
 Rapid delivery of MARC records for
OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library, Axis 360
 OCLC
 WorldShare Metadata collection management

11. Discovery
 Web-scale discovery maturing after 4 years
 Summon announced at 2009 ALA Midwinter
 Index-based discovery covers a critical mass of library collections
 Some publishers still do not participate fully
 New content announcements made regularly, especially including specialized and
regional content resources
 Ongoing Technology Improvements
 Summon Spotlighting
 Recommends specialized resources, based on specific trigger worlds in query
 Primo ScholarRank
 Integration initiatives
 EBSCO: EDS integration
 SirsiDynix eResource Central
 Innovative Interfaces Encore
 OCLC WorldShare Platform.

12. Social infrastructure
 BiblioCommons
 Polaris partnership with ChiliFresh to create
Social PAC through deep integration through
APIs

13. Beyond Discovery: Comprehensive
Library Web Presence
 BiblioCommons
partnership with Chicago Public
Library to extend its technology to
create an entirely new Web site with
associated services
 Infor Iguana – fully managed library
Web site services in addition to
modern discovery interface
capabilities
 Axiell Arena

14. Library Services Platforms
 Ongoing progress on the new
Library Services Platforms:
Intota, Alma, Sierra.

15. Analytics: tools to enable data-
driven libraries
 Innovative’s Decision Central
 Intota Assessment
Firstmodule of Intota to be
delivered in 2013
 EnvisionWare Enterprise
Reporter