On Wednesday November 7th, 2007 David Lindahl from the University of Rochester discussed his work on the eXtensible Catalog project as part of a program on Next Generation Library Catalogs held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and sponsored by the Five Colleges' Librarians Council and Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS). More information is available here:http://www.smith.edu/libraries/staff/fivecoll/nextgen.htm

2. Faceted Browsing Search Interface (NCSU Libraries Catalog)

3. Catalog + Community Features (Ann Arbor District Library)

4. Hosted Catalog Solution (OCLC WorldCat Local - University of Washington Libraries Catalog)

5. Open Source Software (Scriblio - Plymouth State University Library Search)

6. Open Source Components (SOLR/Lucene)

7. ILS Vendor Offerings (Ex Libris Primo and Innovative Interfaces Encore)

10. Next Generation Library Study Users Conceptualize Design Usability Test Implement Deploy Iterate to improve

17. XC Phase 1: C4 Prototype

18. XC Phase 1: Name Authority Prototype

23. XC Phase 2: System Diagram Metadata Services Hub Metadata Cache Temporary storage of packages of metadata along with sources ILS Other metadata repository Institutional repository Normalization Terminology Relationships Transforms Sources for existing library metadata XC User Interface Platforms Drupal Blackboard Sakai XC-schema metadata delivered to client platforms XC User Interfaces Out of the box XC user Interface XC Cataloging User Interface Library resources organized by course Library resources organized by course Homegrown Homegrown (PHP or Java) User and staff generated metadata delivered to the MSH Plone Out of the box XC user Interface