“Arricchire l’OPAC in modo semplice
e sempre aggiornato”
Ian Pattenden
• Owned by CIG, business unit of
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“Our” world
“Their” world
Let’s bring them together!
Authoritative enrichment
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11 million titles
ISBN linking
Subscription so always up-to-date
Customised to your collection
Fully hosted by Bowker – no local scanning/uploading
English / Italian / German / Spanish / Swedish / AV
Your users can see beyond MARC without leaving the OPAC
Add colour – sell your collection!
Syndetic Solutions
http://160.97.80.2:8998/F
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CONTENUTO ITALIANO
 220.000 immagini di copertine
 250.000 riassunti
Authoritative enrichment
Recently launched
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Same content, new delivery method
No additional fee for Syndetic Solutions subscribers
Widget
Standard HTML code
Greater compatibility with more systems
Little or no back-end/ILS-specific integration
Makes enrichments more obvious to the user
Fits with your own branding – optional CSS
Syndetics Plus
Syndetics Plus
Recently launched
Aiding discoverability
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TOCs and Summaries
Enrichments are “OPAC add-ons”
They can also be indexed alongside MARC to power searching too
Ensure relevant resources are not overlooked
Syndetics ICE
Aiding discoverability
User enrichment
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www.librarything.com
Free to use social networking site for booklovers
Launched 2005, now over 1 million members worldwide
47 million books catalogued
59 million tags added
Over 400,000 book reviews
User enrichment
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Enhance MARC without touching it
Add detail and connections created by LibraryThing.com members
Allow your users to interact with the OPAC
4 distinct parts:
 Content
 Reviews
 ShelfBrowse
 Library Anywhere
 Library Anywhere
User enrichment
User enrichment
…in modo semplice…
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System neutral
Complete set-up instructions
Widget
No need for updating/maintenance – automatic ISBN linking
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Export MARC records and upload them to your LTfL account
Add a few lines of HTML to your OPAC template
OPAC-specific instructions to follow
Customise position/colours etc
…e sempre aggiornato!
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Enrichments held on our servers, not in your MARC records
We apply weekly updates
New content delivered as soon as ISBN added
Comprehensive data feeds from publishers/partners
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Once set up, very little maintenance required
Re-load your MARC records as often as you wish
New tags and reviews being added all the time by:
 LibraryThing.com members
 LTfL users via OPACs
Grazie!
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For more information, a quotation and/or free trial access, please feel free
to contact me by email [email protected] and/or contact our
Italian distributor:
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www.bowker.com/syndetics/
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www.librarything.com/forlibraries/