News from the VALE Reference Services Committee

I am on a subcommittee of the VALE Reference Services Committee to make recommendations about proposed features of the Discovery Tool of the Open Library System (OLS). VALE is now considering these discovery tools for the next generation catalog:

 

• XC Extensible Catalog
• VuFind
• Blacklight

 

The subcommittee has identified about 30 features that can be used with the discovery tool chosen by the Implementation Taskforce. We are in the process of prioritizing these features and making recommendations.