BDS: Data and innovation opening new possibilites
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Latest Developments
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e-books
In conjunction with OverDrive, distributors of audiobooks and e-books to 8,500 public, private and special libraries worldwide, BDS now supplies high-quality MARC records in both UKMARC and MARC21 formats for OverDrive e-books. Content is derived from BDS MARC records created for the print versions of the electronic titles.
BDS e-book catalogue records contain an authority-specific URL which directs an OPAC user directly to the OverDrive e-book as licensed by their library authority. The company is making its OverDrive MARC records e-books service available free of charge to all BDS Public Library Licence Holders who are also customers of Overdrive.
RFID
Borrowing books, DVDs and games can become even more informative, helpful and even entertaining as BDS’s information-rich data is now used with Intellident’s Liber8 software that is used on Intellident’s range of self-service kiosks, including the latest smartServe Lite™ variant.
The kiosks, already in use in libraries across the country, use Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology to give users the ability to issue, renew and return items, check account status and even pay fees without the need to interact directly with a member of library staff.
The enhanced elements of the BDS data, such as book jacket images and jewel-case covers on music CDs and DVDs, will be used to give visual feedback via the kiosk to users. It is also planned to use the comprehensive and versatile links in the BDS data to offer descriptions, author, title and genre cross-referencing and reading suggestions within library stock.
The option of viewing enhancements via Intellident kiosks will be available to any local authorities using the BDS XML API Image or the Image Grabber services. Existing BDS customers using these services will be entitled to this option at no increased BDS subscription fee. In addition, all Intellident’s existing customers will have access to this feature free-of-charge.
VoD
For libraries working with film, BDS data now carries descriptions for Video on Demand titles. This goes alongside its already extensive film clip and trailer download service.
