Archive for the ‘OPAC’ Category

The Vanderbilt University Libraries have worked with Ex Libris for the past year as a development partner to create a next generation discovery tool called Primo, which works in conjunction with the library catalog.

This new tool features clustered search results by topic, creator, library collection, creation date, resource type, language, LCC Classification, and genre. It also presents results ranked by relevancy, suggests similar items and suggested new searches. The catalog also allows for user tagging and patron reviews and search queries may be saved via RSS feeds. Although other universities are working with Ex Libris, the Vanderbilt University’s AlphaSearch is the first time that the Primo product has been made available to the public.

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Thanks to Rhonda Gonzales @ the library, who writes about Blogs as Websites for libraries.

What she offers is an introduction to an OPAC which presents information with TAGS and comments - just like a blog - while still incorporating bibliographic data. This is taxonomy with a folksonomy ‘look and feel’. A most interesting development.

One of the most impressive is Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library. Take a look at their beta site: http://lamson.wpopac.com/library. If you do a catalog search, the results are posted to the site like blog postings complete with comments. You can also browse the catalog or the whole site by drilling down through categories, etc.

This site is built on a product called Scriblio (formerly WPopac) which describes itself as “Scriblio (formerly WPopac) - an award winning, free, open- source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress“. Scriblio is not available for general use at the present, but learn more about it at About Scriblio.

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