SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following 12 libraries were loaded into the catalogue this week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Bristol University (07 Feb 2008)


• CONSER (15 Feb 2008)


• Durham University (19 Dec 2007)


• Edinburgh College of Art (18 Jan 2008)


• Liverpool University (29 Jan 2008)


• Napier University (07 Dec 2007)


• Nottingham University (01 Feb 2008)


• Queen's University, Belfast (01 Feb 2008)


• Society of Antiquaries (13 Feb 2008)


• Southampton University (27 Jan 2008)


• Warwick University (08 Feb 2008)


• Wellcome Library (01 Feb 2008)
  

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Web 2.0 day out

The SUNCAT team had a day away from updating libraries last week and travelled all the way across the road to the National Library of Scotland. The event was a seminar organised by the Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland with a title which obviously appealed to the whole team:
“Toto, I’ve got the feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore”: metadata issues and Web 2.0 services.

The day included presentations on

• Cataloguers using Web 2.0 tools for collective and collaborative working


• Semantic web or Web 3.0


• Wikipedia


• Tagging (including some of the pitfalls and attempts to develop tagging guidelines)


• Scottish Screen Archive on YouTube


• National Library of Scotland on Flickr and Facebook


• Scottish Library and Information Council encouraging communication and participation among the Scottish library and information community using a range of tools, including Del.icio.us, SlideShare and a Scottish Libraries Web 2.0 area on Pageflakes
  

All in all it was a very informative day for the team. It was stimulating to hear what others are doing and we left hoping to be able to add more Web 2.0 functionality to SUNCAT. In addition to this blog we currently use a wiki for collaborative team working and have created a SUNCAT search application for Facebook (see post on Feb 18) but we’d like to do much more…

University College London records updated

SUNCAT has been updated. The latest update from University College London (08 Jan 2008) was loaded into SUNCAT today.

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Keeping SUNCAT up-to-date

To make sure that the serials' information on SUNCAT is kept as current as possible, we have been busy setting up regular updates from our Contributing Libraries. The updates contain details of new titles added to a library's collection or amendments to existing titles and also any titles which have been removed. We are now receiving regular updates from over half of our 66 libraries and are working with the others to ensure that SUNCAT is kept current. To check how up-to-date a particular library's data is or to check if your library's latest serials have been added please visit the updates page on the SUNCAT website. We will also start posting the latest updates, as they happen, on this blog.

Find journals in Facebook

You can now search SUNCAT from within Facebook. Simply visit the SUNCAT profile on Facebook and add the SUNCAT search application to your profile. Just enter your keywords, hit search and you can find journals held by over 60 UK libraries.

SUNCAT website

SUNCAT's web pages have been given a new look as part of a makeover of the entire EDINA website. The changes relate purely to the visual aspect of the site with the structure remaining the same. Go to http://www.suncat.ac.uk/ to check them out and let us know what you think.

Locations on SUNCAT

SUNCAT has made a change to the way results are displayed following a successsful search or browse on the catalogue. In addition to the serial title, author and year of publication information, a list of the libraries holding each title now displays on the results screen. This enhancement allows users to see at a glance which libraries hold a title, helping them to identify and filter records of interest more quickly. The full record display continues to contain more detailed location and summary holdings information. Let us know if you have any comments on the new display, either here, or by using the feedback link on the SUNCAT interface.