Michele Newberry, Jennifer Kuntz and I gave an update on FCLA recent activities at the PSPC face to face meeting yesterday held in FSU's Strozier Library. I used a web page with many links for the talk. After we went over the topics on this page Jennifer gave an intro. to the UBorrow prototype. I always find face to face meetings extremely helpful. Not only can I put faces to names and voices, I find it easier to have a give and take with more people involved. Thanks to FSU, especially Becca Bichel, for the friendly environment. I also appreciate the FSU staff who helped me retrieve my cell phone from the locked room. They were so patient!

Notes from Serials Solutions presentation of Summon to FCLA 9/25/09

Summon now has almost 1/2 billion records.
They get lots of their article data from publishers directly.
90% of Academic Search Premier. Also data from Gale, ACM, Gale, Lexis/Nexis Academic, ProQuest, Science Direct, Web of Science, IEEE

Ingest and index full text but don't serve it.

User interface options:
1. Use theirs: private data (your catalog, your a&i data, private Digital Collections
public data (public Dig Coll)

2. Take their interface (Ruby on Rails) and adapt it to your environment

3. Use their API with your interface, Western Michigan is using VuFind. Options: host catalog or have catalog in local systems

same price for all 3.