Content Management Case Studies

摘要

For many years, Don Beagle, director of the Belmont Abbey College Library in North Carolina, had been looking for a new way for library users to interact with the Library's extensive collection, which included traditional books, rare books, ebooks, Web-based curriculum supplements, and more. He recognized that old methods of search and classification were no longer relevant to today's library where material could be found in multiple formats and not all could be stacked neatly on a shelf in the 19th century style. He saw a need for a more visual library catalogue to transform library searches, much in the same way Windows and the Macintosh had changed personal computer operating systems in the 1980s from command-driven to a graphical system. In 2001, Beagle met Tim Bray, the founder of Antarctica software at a tradeshow. That meeting eventually resulted in the Library purchasing Antarctica's Visual Net software and creating a graphical representation of the library catalogue that makes it easier to find not only books, but also any type of electronic media in the Library's extensive collection.