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Introduction to FCLA Aleph v.19 FCLA Website Redesign Aleph v18 Service Packs Aleph v18 Circulation Aleph v18 Acquisitions and Serials Aleph v18 Cataloging Endeca Metalib SFX Aleph DLU01 Library Reports and Statistics Data Warehouse and Reporting  |
EndecaFCLA supports and develops the catalog user interface used by the 11 State University Libraries of the Florida. The catalog is produced by a combination of Endeca software and the web application (Mango) that FCLA wrote for the user interface.Our implementation of Endeca was heavily influenced by North Carolina State University's. They shared much of their configuration files with us and we have built on that. We are using Endeca as an alternative online catalog for our Aleph 500 system. We have 11 Aleph instances for our 11 universities and one Endeca instance. We extract the separate catalog files, merge them into a 12th Aleph instance, dedup them on OCLC number and merge specific fields to make a composite that we then feed into Endeca. Using our front end (which we call Mango to help our users distinguish our development from what comes with the Endeca product), we provide a union catalog and 11 individual opac views. Here are some links to illustrate: http://catalog.fcla.edu - the union catalog http://uf.catalog.fcla.edu - University of Florida http://nf.catalog.fcla.edu - University of North Florida As you can see, colors and stylesheets are adapted to the university. Here's a test version we're working on incorporating several new features under review: http://tinyurl.com/27ap6t It includes list function links on all of the brief records, a different checked/view records button, improved exporting to RefWorks, and Google book covers! Other instances can be found by changing this URL: http://testcat.fcla.edu/catalog/xx.jsp Replace xx with an institution code: am, fa, fi, fs, gc, cf, nc, uf, sf, nf, wf and ux (the last is the union catalog). Other stuff unique to usA lot of what we do with data loading makes us unique and noteworthy, including record merging and the import of HOLs, the LCC/NLM/Dewey facets, and the Thesaurus (NB: we're using the Thesaurus to help with the diacritics issue for retrieval).Real Time Hooks into the Aleph Library management system
Custom Features–Advanced Search and limits–RSS for Result Set –Email list of records –Hooks to RefWorks –Permalink –Marc Views via SQL –Debug View (raw Endeca record) –Browse lists (in development) – this is the old, pre-coordinated headings browse –Book covers (Google) Technologies used in Mango:
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