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A Comparison of Searching Functionality of a Vu-Find Catalogue Implementation and the Traditional Catalogue
Library Trends
  • Debra G. Skinner, Georgia Southern University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2012
DOI
10.1353/lib.2012.0031
Abstract

As of spring semester 2010, Georgia Southern University began using a VuFind implementation as the default access to the library catalogue on the library Web page while maintaining a secondary link to the traditional Voyager “classic” catalogue. VuFind is an opensource product that has been adopted and adapted by all the state universities and colleges in the state of Georgia. For approximately ten years, Georgia libraries have used Voyager as their catalogue, and it remains available to users as the “classic” search option. This report examines the local VuFind implementation compared to the more traditional Voyager implementation, emphasizing the differences in the searching capabilities of each.

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Copyright © 2012 Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Library Trends, 61:1 (2012), 208-217.

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Citation Information
Debra G. Skinner. "A Comparison of Searching Functionality of a Vu-Find Catalogue Implementation and the Traditional Catalogue" Library Trends Vol. 61 Iss. 1 (2012) p. 208 - 217 ISSN: 1559-0682
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/debra_skinner/12/