Lipstick on a Pig: & Ways to Improve the Sex Life of Your OPAC

2006 February 15
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by Karen

Enhancing with external content

  • book review
  • usage statistics
  • list each loan, days borrowed, and returned, days our, renewals and borrower class
  • incorporate popularity into searching
  • Permalink for the book
  • book covers
  • random cover comes up on library’s homepage
  • virtual new book shelf
  • Link to local libraries connect to see if resource at available
  • search other remote resources
    • Google
    • RedLightGreen
    • is this available via fulltext via GooglePrint or snippets in Amazon
  • Enabled live help, chat within the catalog
    • Librarian intranet interface uses user session id to see the users last searches. Librarian can see what search the user was on when they clicked help
  • links from serials to OpenURL resolver
  • links from serials to RSS table of contents

    • Technologies used

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