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By: BiblioCommons « pintiniblog

BiblioCommons « pintiniblog — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:24:23 +0000

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By: peter schoenberg

peter schoenberg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:43:32 +0000

Pleased to say that Edmonton Public Library is live on Bibliocommons. We serve 800,000 citizens, 1.8 million items, 500,000 titles, 10 million+ annual circulation. We are the first Sirsi Symphony library on Bibliocommons and we and most of our customers are loving it!

Spelling assistance is certainly part of the current Bibliocommons, e.g.

Keyword search results for…
Harry Otter
Did you mean harry potter (189 results)?

Keyword search results for…
Harry poter
Did you mean harry potter (189 results)?

Keyword search results for…
margret attwood
Did you mean margaret atwood (151 results)?

Peter

By: Bibliocommon at élet és könyvtár

Bibliocommon at élet és könyvtár — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:40:18 +0000

[…] The Shifted Library-n* csíptem a hírt, miszerint a Bibliocommons, amely gyakorlatilag a könyvtári gyűjteményekre […]

By: Biblioteche, social opac e soci: BiblioCommons « Cultural Heritage E-Libraries and Archives

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:49:26 +0000

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Recent URLs tagged Cil - Urlrecorder — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:00:35 +0000

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By: Bibliocommons live als catalogus voor de Oakville - Ontario bibliotheek in Canada | Moqub's bibliotheek van dingen

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:59:10 +0000

[…] die zij online plaatste omdat BiblioCommons toe nog in de testfase verkeerde. En nu lees ik bij Jenny dat Bibliocommons live is gegaan. In Canada, bij de Oakville Ontario […]

By: Elena

Elena — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:52:23 +0000

So, this was interesting…we’ve been looking at options and so was very interested in this information and decided to take a quick test drive —

I tried looking up “Harry Otter” on the bibliocommons search. It found nothing. Same for title (as they don’t use browse).
I then went to their old catalog (link is on the bottom right of the new catalog) – did the same search and succeeded if I moved to a regular title (browse) search.

AquaBrowser did a bit better as it included a link to the word “Potter” as well as “Hogwarts.” However, many people would click onto “Potter” and find a variety of items about potters before finding a Harry Potter book. I still wouldn’t call it a great success as it focuses on the individual word and expects user skill to either retype the original query or find the best word to get the most hits.

The thing is, there are sites that can succeed with the above search — both Barnes & Nobles and Amazon.com quickly jumped to “Harry Potter” despite our searches for “Harry Otter” and “Harry Poter.”

So, why can’t the Library catalogs handle this? Or are there some out there?