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New Look for CLICnet

This summer the Libraries are rolling out a couple new looks to CLICnet, the library catalog, CLICnet.
Take a look at this tutorial for the CLICnet ‘discovery layer’
encoreALess expert searchers have long been stymied by the library world’s outmoded ‘online public access catalog.’ Even the name now denotes cranky creakiness. Juggernauts like Google have shown that Search can be made much easier, smarter, and better. Now libraries are playing catch up. There is not a lot we can do about the underlying data structures, but ‘discovery’ layers are being rolled out apace, warts and all, to help students, without long experience of catalogs, find what they need.
In the meantime …. you guessed it … the old CLICnet is being gussied up, warts and all, to need less upkeep by the CLIC consortium. In a couple days, I will have a video tutorial ready for what is (fondly?) now called ‘Classic CLICnet.’
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