SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND NAVIGATING LIBRARY INFORMATION WITH A VIRTUAL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS BROWSER

• US 20110225550A1
• Filed: 03/11/2011
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael S. Creedon
• Original Assignee: Michael S. Creedon
• Inventors: Creedon, Michael S.
• Application Number:
  US13/046,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20110225550A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/841
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data

Abstract

A system and method of displaying and navigating library information includes the steps of: receiving, from a user, a selection of a category of library materials; displaying part of that category of library materials the order they appear in an indexed catalog system based on item subjects; and upon request, displaying to the user an adjacent section of library materials in the selected category. The user can also view images of covers and/or selected text from a selected item.

Claims

1. A computerized method for displaying library information and navigating library information comprising performing, with a computer or computers, the steps of:

receiving, from a user, a selection of one of a plurality of categories of library materials;

displaying to the user a first plurality of library materials in the selected category, the library materials being displayed in sequence order according to a subject based indexed catalog system;

receiving, from a user, a navigation request, and in response thereto, displaying to the user a second plurality of library materials in the selected category, the second plurality of library materials adjacent the first plurality of library materials in the subject based indexed catalog system.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, performing, with the computer or computers, the steps of:

receiving, from a user, a selection of one of the first plurality of library materials; and

displaying an image of a cover of said selected one of the first plurality of library materials.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, performing, with the computer or computers, the steps of:

receiving, from a user, a selection of one of the first plurality of library materials;

displaying an image of a cover of said selected one of the first plurality of library materials along with descriptive metadata for said selected one of the first plurality of library materials.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the subject based indexed catalog system is selected from the group consisting of:

a Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Schema for assigning LCC Call Number unique identifiers to distinct library items;

a Dewey Decimal System for assigning Dewey Decimal unique identifiers to distinct library items; and

an Archive'"'"'s Encoded Archival Description (EAD) unique identifier.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the subject based indexed catalog system is a set of unique identifiers indexed according to subject cataloging of distinct items in a warehouse or archive of such cataloged items.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the set of unique identifiers are a set of Museum'"'"'s Accession unique identifiers.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the steps of receiving and displaying are encrypted.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the user logs on securely to the client-server system for the user session to initiate encrypted receiving and displaying.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising, performing, with the computer or computers, the steps of:

receiving, from a user, a selection of a first option, the first option being an option to view transactions options available for the one of the first plurality of library materials; and

displaying a hyperlinked list of further transaction option paths to take regarding said selected one of the first plurality of library materials.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising, performing, with the computer or computers, the steps of:

displaying a hyperlinked list of options, the options comprising;

(a) to return to the last displayed plurality of library materials adjacent the first plurality of library materials in the subject based indexed catalog, or

(b) to return to the home display to enter another selection of one of a plurality of categories of library materials and thereafter displaying to the user a first plurality of library materials in the selected category, the library materials being displayed in sequence order according to a subject based indexed catalog system, or

(c) to securely log off the system and exit.

11. The method of claim 2, further comprising, performing, with the computer or computers, the steps of:

receiving, from a user, a selection of the option to view transactions available for the one of the first plurality of library materials;

displaying a hyperlinked list of icons representing further transaction option modules available to select regarding said selected one of the first plurality of library materials, where the transaction option modules for said selected library material transactions to select include one or more of the following;

(a) inquiry on the selected library material'"'"'s location in holding or host institutions,

(b) a request to hold the selected library material for personal pickup,

(c) a request for interlibrary loan delivery of the selected library material to a sponsoring library,

(d) electronic or postal delivery of the selected library material to the user,

(e) request for on-demand acquisition of the selected library material from a specific host library,

(f) print-on-demand and delivery of the selected library material,

(g) copyright compliant photocopying of a portion of the selected library material for electronic delivery,

(h) a license-based electronic delivery of the selected library material, wherein the user has rights and credentials to view and receive via the selected library material.

(i) ordering from a vendor the selected library material in accordance with vendor policy.

(j) exporting of data regarding the selected library material to email and other communication media.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein library material includes items selected from the group consisting of books, serials, other texts, artifacts or images of artifacts, other objects or images of other objects, other images, audio, film, video, maps, data, data sets, applications, other files and bit streams, and combinations thereof.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the transactions option module includes icons of the said available transactions, the method further comprising selectively displaying said icons based upon a secure data-query into the server regarding the user'"'"'s level of authorization corresponding to authentication credentials within an institution-sponsored user group, with user group permissions set for all users with the same user group in the same networked library-institution peer-reviewed consortium.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein system use permissions can be customized to the individual user and item level.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the available transactions are initiated and processed via the display of the required input and output over a secure Internet connection to the local consortial host library of other item holding institution or warehouse, or to other transaction processing service modules, that can be securely connected and function securely with the system comprising this invention.

16. Non-transitory computer readable media, having stored thereon, computer executable process steps, operable to control a computer to perform the steps of:

receiving, from a user, a selection of one of a plurality of categories of library materials;

displaying to the user a first plurality of library materials in the selected category, the library materials being displayed in sequence order according to a subject based indexed catalog system;

receiving, from a user, a navigation request, and in response thereto, displaying to the user a second plurality of library materials in the selected category, the second plurality of library materials adjacent the first plurality of library materials in the subject based indexed catalog system.

17. The Non-transitory computer readable media of claim 16, having stored thereon, computer executable process steps, operable to control a computer to perform the further steps of:

receiving, from a user, a selection of one of the first plurality of library materials; and

displaying an image of a cover of said selected one of the first plurality of library materials.

18. The Non-transitory computer readable media of claim 16, wherein the subject based indexed catalog system is selected from the group consisting of:

a Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Schema for assigning LCC Call Number unique identifiers to distinct library items;

a Dewey Decimal System for assigning Dewey Decimal unique identifiers to distinct library items, and an Archive'"'"'s Encoded Archival Description (EAD) unique identifier.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the computer system receives selections, and transmits information, over the internet.

19. A system for displaying library information and navigating library information comprising:

a computer system including one or more computers, the computer system receiving, from a user, a selection of one of a plurality of categories of library materials, the computer system transmitting information to a display device which is sufficient to display to the user a first plurality of library materials in the selected category, the library materials being displayed in sequence order according to a subject based indexed catalog system, the computer system receiving, from the user, a navigation request, and in response thereto, the computer system transmitting information to the display device which is sufficient to display to the user a second plurality of library materials in the selected category, the second plurality of library materials adjacent the first plurality of library materials in the subject based indexed catalog system.