Customizing VuFind to Enhance Discoverability of Library Resources

During the summer of 2016, the Cheng Library at William Paterson University began a special project to develop and deploy a Bento Box discovery search layer using open source VuFind. The interface displays our holdings in Voyager, search results for journal articles from EDS, and information from LibGuides and library webpages. This poster presentation will describe the process of testing, development, and deployment of the interface. It will also describe our simultaneous retrospective cleanup of legacy metadata in Voyager to provide VuFind with a more useful pool of information about our resources to relay to patrons.

Please find attached links to our presentation slides, our poster as a PDF, the Bento Box search interface, and the source code on GitHub.

Feel free to contact the presenters!
Hao Zeng: zengh@wpunj.edu
David Cupo: cupod@wpunj.edu

Presenter: 

David Cupo, Metadata Specialist Librarian, Cheng Library, William Paterson University
Hao Zeng, Systems Specialist Librarian, Cheng Library, William Paterson University

Program Title: 

Customizing VuFind to Enhance Discoverability of Library Resources

Year: 

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