MyLibrary: Integrating Library Resources with the Luminis Portal

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MyLibraryIntegrating Library Resources with
the Luminis Portal

• Tim McGeary
• Lehigh University
• Sr. Library Systems Specialist
• Tim.McGeary_at_lehigh.edu

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What is MyLibrary?

• MyLibrary is a user-driven, customizable
  interface to collections of Internet resources --
  a portal. Primarily designed for libraries, the
  system's purpose is to reduce information
  overload by allowing patrons to select as little
  or as much information as they so desire for
  their personal pages.
• - Eric Lease Morgan, University Libraries of
  Notre Dame
• http//dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/

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Why use MyLibrary?

• All of your electronic resources organized in one
  place
• Allows Librarians/Content Administrators ability
  to select/highlight Top of the e-resources
• Gives users the ability to customize and
  personalize their list of resources
• It can be used as a stand-alone portal or it can
  be integrated SCT Campus Pipeline or another
  uPortal standard portal application
• Open-source and free
• At Lehigh, faculty are requesting a place to
  manage their e-resources on the portal

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Systems Linked in Lehighs Campus Portal

• Blackboard
• Courses
• Posted Notes, Assignments
• View Grades in each course
• E-reserves
• SCT Banner
• Alumni Services
• Alumni Directory
• Giving to Lehigh
• Updating Personal Information
• Employee Information
• W-2, Vacation
• Student Financial Aid information
• Registering for classing, Drop/Adds
• Financial Aid Applications
• Grades, Transcripts

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MyLibrary Lehigh Model

• Data Processing
• Disciplines defined by SCT Banner system and then
  mapped to Library Fund codes for simplicity.
• Faculty are assigned by Banner Department
• Ugrad and Grad students assigned by Major or
  Undeclared
• Staff assigned to a Staff discipline of General
  resources
• Librarians/Content Administrators
• Mapped each e-resource to a discipline code/fund
  code
• After harvesting process was completed, selected
  discipline defaults or Tops list for each
  e-resource area in each discipline they cover
• Cataloging Support Staff
• Edited each e-resource record selected to be in
  MyLibrary (all subscription resources)
• Inserted the appropriate fund code in a local
  MARC field 692

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Harvesting E-resource Data from Sirsi Unicorn

• API selection tools are used and then a series of
  perl and sed scripts massage the data from
  Unicorn into the necessary format required by
  MyLibrary
• E-journals
• Denoted Call number"Electronic Journal"
• Electronic Reference and Books
• Denoted by location WWW
• The Catalog Key from Unicorn is used as the DB_ID
  in MySQL of MyLibrary to establish complete
  uniqueness between the resources that will allow
  for seamless updates. In MyLibrary version 2.63,
  each URL requires a separate DB Record, which is
  solved by a simple algorithm to use the Unicorn
  Catalog Key.
• The Perl scripts will read in the discipline/fund
  code from the 692 field are also used to setup
  lists that will be added to MyLibrary to
  associated each e-resource to its Discipline
• Automated scripts will update resources that have
  changed URLs or update resources that have been
  added to the catalog, as well as remove deleted
  resources.

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Patrons/User in Lehigh Model

• Since the disciplines were mapped from
  Departments and Majors in SCT Banner, every user
  is also able to be mapped to a discipline in
  MyLibrary
• This allows for pre-populating user data, thus
  signing-up user
• Users login using his/her Lehigh LDAP/AFS login
  username and password, which is new to MyLibrary
  v. 2.63

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Integrating MyLibrary with SCT Campus
Pipeline/uPortal

• Inline Frame to insert the MyLibrary interface
  into our Campus Portal.
• This requires a separate login to enter MyLibrary
  so that the MySQL backend can handle
  customizations
• A single sign-on has been developed in
  cooperation with SCT and is now being tested
• Work at Notre Dame is also underway to
  channelize each e-resource list
• uPortal standards
• MyLibrary and uPortal can communicate with each
  other for customization

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Users Customizing their Resource Lists

• After clicking the Edit button on the resource
  list they want to customize, users are presented
  with the following
• Their current list of e-resources in that area
• A link to an A-Z list of ALL e-resources in that
  area
• Links to e-resources by discipline

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Daily MyLibrary Usage Statistics
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MyLibrary Demographic Statistics
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Contact Information

• Tim McGeary (tim.mcgeary_at_lehigh.edu)
• MyLibrary _at_ Lehigh repository
• http//www.lehigh.edu/tmm8/mylibrary