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Ruby Lindberg and Marlene Murphy,, Library, NT Department of Health

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DEFI FINITI ITION ONS S OF OP F OPEN SOURCE RCE

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“Intellectual property, esp. computer source code, that is made freely available to the general public by its creators” [accessed online September 2013

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/open-source]

Webopedia: ebopedia: “Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations.”

[accessed : September 2013 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/open_source.html]

Defi finition nition of DSpa pace

“DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. And with an ever-growing community of developers, committed to continuously expanding and improving the software, each DSpace installation benefits from the next.”

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TIMEL MELINE NE OF D F DISCOVERING ERING, , DESIGNIN NING G AND ND DIVERSIFY SIFYING NG OUR LIBRAR ARY Y MANA NAGEMENT GEMENT SYST YSTEM EM KOHA

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dation 1: That a link straight to the DOH Library Catalogue be placed

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dation n 2: Create a link stating “join up” or “membership in the left side menu. Recomme

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dation 3: Look at ways of consolidating the sign up process in KOHA, using a KOHA form instead of a Reftracker form and ensuring the link back to the catalogue is clear. Recomme

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dation n 4: Place a “ask a question” link in the left side menu and remove the number of list

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TIMEL MELINE NE OF D F DISCOVERING ERING, , DESIGNIN NING G AND ND DIVERSIFY RSIFYING NG OUR LIBRARY Y MANA NAGEMENT GEMENT SYST YSTEM EM KOHA HA

Recommendation

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Change the search options on the Catalogue homepage and reduce the number of

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Reword and/or simplify the instructions for the login and password and discuss options for using the same login details for all of the resources and the catalogue.

Recommendation

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Look at changing the terminology used for lists to something like “bookmarks” or “favourites”.

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2011 11 TIMELIN LINE E OF D F DISCOVERING VERING, , DESIGNI NING NG AND ND DIVERSIFY RSIFYING NG OUR LIBRARY Y MANA NAGEMENT GEMENT SYST YSTEM EM KOHA HA

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Change the positioning and terminology for finding the users account from “Welcome xxxx”. Perhaps place the link to “Account” in the left side menu. This needs to be more obvious

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Consider using “home” button options and terminology similar to that used on the WWW.

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Make more use of the left side menu for control options like account, login etc

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Ruby Lindberg, Manager, Resources Management Unit Marlene Murphy, Electronic Services Librarian Library Services, NT Department of Health Phone... 8922 8404 or 8922 7913 Email…ruby.lindberg@nt.gov.au, marlene.murphy@nt.gov.au