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The Lyra Programme: Foundation Phase

This section summarises the essential pre-requisites that must be carried out before you implement any of the Lyra Programme software releases.

Lyra Programme - Supporting Product Releases

Developments in this Foundation phase give libraries essential compliance with ISBN-13 and allow them to move at their own pace towards cataloguing in MARC 21.

Lyra Programme – MARC Conversion Manager

The MARC Conversion Manager is a new application, specially designed to enable Talis' customers to configure and control the conversion of their catalogue to the MARC 21 bibliographic record format. This is a powerful tool which makes the highly complex conversion process simple for bibliographic staff to control and manage. The MARC Conversion Manager benefits libraries by:

Empowering the non-technical staff who know most about the catalogue, to own and run the conversion

Minimising effort from technical and systems staff, by making the process simple enough for bibliographic staff to control

Minimising disruptionby enabling conversion processing to be distributed and co-ordinated across a number of desktop PCs, harnessing the power of the modern desktop

Increasing converted record quality by enabling the conversion to be easily and repeatedly tested, checked and re-run before the final conversion

The result is a controlled, manageable, quality assured conversion, with the minimum of disruption. The MARC Conversion Manager is available as part of the Lyra Foundation package. To order your Lyra Foundation package and obtain the MARC Conversion Manager please contact sales@talis.com. Please note that Talis Alto 3.0 is an essential pre-requisite.

Supporting product upgrades for Lyra Foundation

Talis Alto 3.0

Introducing support for ISBN-13 and MARC 21 bibliographic records, Talis Alto 3.0, allows libraries to:

• Move at their own pace towards cataloguing in the MARC 21 bibliographic format
• Source the high quality bibliographic records required more often and more quickly
• Edit and control the quality of MARC 21 records more easily
• Have non-Latin scripts in catalogue records

Benefits include:

• Dual cataloguing environments: new MARC 21 cataloguing tools co-ordinated with the existing TalisMARC facilities, with appropriate alerts to ensure the integrity of both environments and easy movement between them
• Import, store, view and edit MARC 21 bibliographic records
• Access to Talis Base 2, with more records, higher quality records and faster, more powerful and robust searching
• More flexibility in configuring remote databases for search
• Detailed validation of MARC 21 content designators, highlighting invalid or non-standard elements
• etter editing in MARC 21 with quick data entry options and clearer display with larger fonts and improved contrast
• Unicode support allowing a very wide range of characters and scripts to be imported, entered, edited and stored, with a variety of input methods including on-screen keyboard and character picker
• System control numbers: all records in the MARC 21 environment are automatically allocated a system-generated control number, with other identifiers such as ISBNs and ISSNs being entered in appropriate other fields. This removes the dependency on external numbers and the associated problems and prepares the way for more control over bibliographic management and retrieval in the Lyra Completion phase.

Talis Prism 2.0

In the first Lyra Programme release of the catalogue, Talis Prism 2.0, libraries can choose to display data derived from MARC 21 records in the detailed record display (alternatively, the TalisMARC equivalent record is displayed).

As well as benefiting generally from the richness of these records, Unicode compliance means that Talis Prism will also display any non-Latin script, giving the catalogue a greater multicultural and scholarly reach. MARC 21 records can also be suppressed from display individually (through cataloguing in Talis Alto), giving cataloguers the freedom to experiment and familiarise themselves with the new ways of cataloguing.

Talis Base 2.0

Talis Base 2.0 is a completely new service that is automatically available in the MARC 21 environment in Talis Alto. Thanks to this, libraries will be able to increase productivity by sourcing more high quality records more quickly.

With a new technical platform, Talis Base 2.0 extends the data sets of Talis Base 1.0 and offers faster, more powerful searching. Where possible, data sets have been refreshed from source in MARC 21 format, rather than converting them from Talis Base 1.0. This includes the Library of Congress, the British Library and BDS. In fact, more records are now available:

• The Library of Congress: The ‘complete service’, including serials (the CONSER database) and records for non-book materials such as music, maps and electronic resources is now available
• British Library: The full integrated catalogue, rather than just the BNB and music files, is now available
• BDS: a new database, Moving Mediata1, covering DVD and video, is now available.

Talis Base 2.0 provides high performance searching with extensive search types and options based on the Z39.50 search and retrieve protocol Bath Profile and the US National Profile (Z39.89).

Training

Lyra Foundation Training courses will meet all your needs for both understanding MARC 21 and learning to work with new product features introduced throughout the Foundation Phase. To find out more contact training@talis.com