Presentation on Integration of Library Resources and Services in Sakai 3 from the 10th Sakai Conference, Boston, MA, July 10, 2009.

1. Integration of Library Resources
and Services in Sakai 3
Susan Hollar, Curriculum Integration Coordinator
University of Michigan Library
Jon Dunn, Associate Director for Technology
Indiana University Digital Library Program
Gaurav Bhatnagar, Interaction Designer
University of Michigan Library

2. Presentation Overview
• Session Goals
• Background
• Project Goals
• Proposed design process
• How to participate
• Discussion

3. Session Goals
• Review history and status of work of the
Sakaibrary Project
• Discuss potential library functionality in
Sakai 3 and start organizing the
community to design and develop

4. Sakaibrary: 2006-2008
• Collaborative project of Indiana University
Libraries and the University of Michigan
Library
• Funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
• Project partners
• Northwestern, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins,
Yale, Stanford

5. Sakaibrary: 2006-2008
• Citations Helper
• Integration of content from licensed library
databases within Sakai
• Part of Sakai 2.4+ distributions
• Subject Research Guide
• Prototype functionality for librarians to
present content in Sakai and students to
discover within Sakai
• No ongoing development work

6. Citations Helper in 2.6
• Support for new metasearch engine
• Serials Solutions 360 Search
• Can use direct vendor URLs instead of
OpenURLs
• Can configure maximum number of
databases to search
• Miscellaneous UI improvements

7. Sakai 3
• Opportunity to revisit goals and reinvent
functionality

8. Goals: Sakai 3 and Library
Integration
• Make library services and resources
accessible and useful to people using
Sakai.
• Organize collaborative effort within the
Sakai community to get input, define
requirements, design, develop, test,…

10. Allison McCallum
LAST SEMESTER…
"I want to make my courses more engaging for my students
and want to do it faster than I currently can.”
• Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of
Michigan for 9 years
• 43 years old

16. The Library Resources widget
allows Allison to:
•quickly find content relevant to
her
•assess the effectiveness of
scholarly material based on the
collective wisdom of the scholarly
community
•add library content from
anywhere on the web
Based on preliminary user-
centered design, more details at:
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/iAC
X

17. Proposed User-Centered Design
Process

18. How to participate
• Monthly web meetings
• Discussions on sakai-user
• User Interviews
• July - September (4 hours)
• Design feedback (January)
• Participate in the development process -
write code!

19. User interviews
• Overview/orientation (1 hour)
• Conducting the interview (1 hour)
• Preparing the transcript (1 hour)
• Debrief w/Gaurav (1 hour)
• Sign-up Sheet

20. Discussion
• What new functionality is desired?
• How important is interoperability with
other systems?
• Is building functionality that only works in
Sakai desirable or limiting?
• Any feedback on the design process?
• Thoughts on other ways to involve the
community?

21. More Info & Discussion
• Email: sakai-user@collab.sakaiproject.org
• Confluence
• Sakai 3 + Library Integration
• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/PwCX
• Sakai 3 + Library Integration Design
• Documentation: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/iACX
• Examples: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/BgGX