Presented by Aleš Vanek, ITPNZ Libraries Forum 3 -5 July 2007 – EIT Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

1. Wintec OPAC enhancements
Dewey Cloud
Presented by Aleš Vanek
ITPNZ Libraries Forum
3 -5 July 2007 – EIT Hawke’s Bay

2. WebVoyage ‘Cover Page’

3. Dewey Cloud – basic facts
Free software
Author: Steve Thomas
stephen.thomas@adelaide.edu.au
Creates an HTML page providing a visual
presentation of the Library's print collection.
 The script first extracts call numbers from the
Voyager MFHD. Only the first three digits are
used, and non-Dewey numbers are ignored. A
hash is built with a count of MFHD holdings
against each Dewey-thousand.
 On completion of the scan, an HTML page is
produced as described above.
 Clicking on a category will link to the Library
Catalogue to browse that category.
> continue...

4. Dewey Classification headings are ranked
according to the number of items under
each heading.
Ranking is indicated by a larger or smaller
size : the larger the text, the greater the
number of items.
Moving the cursor over a category will
reveal the Dewey number and number of
items in the category.

5. Dewey Cloud

6. Dewey Cloud – text roll-over function

7. More technical details

8.  Wintec library uses 5 categories.
 Final .html page is well customizable.

9. Any questions?
ales.vanek@wintec.ac.nz

10. Any questions?
ales.vanek@wintec.ac.nz