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Trying to decide how to improve your schools catalog management? Not sure how long printed catalogs are going to be needed, and what to do about it? Are your courses under constant revision? This may be the presentation for you!
Recently the University of Richmond (UR) enabled it's undergraduate school catalog in their Content Management System (CMS). In March of 2008, they successfully published the catalog online from the CMS enabled with advanced and simple text searching. In April, they generated their final print file for Adobe inDesign3 from the CMS, thus completing a strategy of a single system of record, print output, online output, and low effort content maintenance and publishing. The University of Richmond now has a complete online catalog and 30+ sites with departmental catalog content published whenever needed.
In this presentation, Eric Palmer will cover a high level view of the technical approach and delve deeply into the limitations, trials, tribulations and successes of UR's catalog publishing experiment. He will also review the pitfalls of CMS catalog publishing as well as suggested best practices. He will conclude with UR's enhancement wish list, and a discussion of what they are going to do differently as they begin the migration of their other university catalogs into the CMS.