Vufind Wins $50k Mellon Award

摘要

Villanova University's VuFind project, described as "a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries," in December won a $50,000 Award for Technology Collaboration from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.rnVuFind is an open source OPAC replacement created to be a comprehensive interface for all of a library's content, including catalog records, institutional repository items, and electronic journal information. Many have been eagerly following the software's development, such as LJ Digital Libraries blogger Roy Tennant. Moreover, a recent announcement from the HathiTrust described its plans to implement "a temporary public beta using VuFind, to be deployed in early 2009." All of this, in addition to the recognition from Mellon, has solidified VuFind's position among the most promising discovery layers currently available to academic libraries.