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SELCO/SELS Board Approves Purchase of AquaBrowser
November 03, 2008 -- The SELCO/SELS Board of Directors has approved a recommendation from the ILS Operations & Technology Policy joint committee to purchase and install AquaBrowser as a replacement for the SELCO web-based catalog. AquaBrowser provides a range of functions not available in the current catalog software including faceted browsing, superior relevancy ranking of search results, and automatic correction of search term misspellings. Contract discussions are underway with AquaBrowser with implementation slated to begin in January 2009. The new catalog is scheduled to go live by the end of June 2009.
The ILS Operations & Technology Policy joint committee will consider project plans at their next meeting on November 13, 2008. Among other topics, the joint committee will consider how to best gather input from the Online Libraries while maintaining an efficient design process.
The evaluation process that led to the adoption of AquaBrowser has been documented in two blog posts to SELCO Librarian:
