Webpac 2.0
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This document discusses ways to enhance the traditional online public access catalog (OPAC) to make it more relevant and useful to users in a Web 2.0 world. It outlines complaints that some have about OPACs, such as that they are not as good as search engines like Google. It then presents several options for enhancing OPACs, including outsourcing the system, redesigning the interface, or hiding the OPAC behind a discovery layer. It provides specific examples of enhancements from OPAC vendors and third parties, as well as home-grown enhancements that libraries have developed using technologies like JavaScript. The goal is to take advantage of new technologies and applications to update the OPAC and better integrate it with the
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Webpac 2.0
- 1. What can We do with the WebPAC? Is it Relevant in a Web 2.0 World John Wenzler: jwenzler@sfsu.edu San Francisco State University
- 2. The Anxiety of Freedom
- 4. David Walker’s “OPAC Sucks” Demo
- 8. WorldCat Local: WebPAC in the Back Office
- 9. Scriblio: An Open-source “wrapper” for WebPAC
- 10. Solrpac: Potential Open-Source Option
- 11. AquaBrowser: Hip Skin for WebPac
- 12. Encore: WebPAC as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 13. WebPAC for Data -- not for display
- 18. Literary Databases for Literary Call Numbers
- 19. Engineering Databases for Engineering Call Numbers
- 20. III Enhancements: ERM as a Database Pathfinder in the WebPAC
- 21. ERM: Browsing Electronic Resources
- 22. ERM: adding the Ejournal A-Z list to WebPAC
- 23. III Enhancements: Metadata Builder and Media Management
- 24. Media Management: WebPAC as a digital archive
- 25. III Enhancements: Spellcheck – searching for “Omnivore’s dillema”
- 26. III Enhancements: Patron Reviews Harry got Married?
- 30. Third Party Enhancements: LibraryThing
- 32. Library Thing Tag Browser: Adding Collective Wisdom to WebPAC
- 33. Third Party Enhancements: Syndetics
- 34. LibX: Adding WebPAC to the Browser
- 35. LibX: Taking WebPAC to the Jungle
- 36. Third Party Enhancements: Google Books
- 38. Third Party Enhancements: Amazon
- 40. Home Made Enhancements: JavaScript – Context Sensitive help
- 41. JavaScript: Context Sensitive Help
- 43. Home Made Enhancements: Text Messages
- 45. Adding Reference to WebPAC
- 48. Home Made Enhancements: Wish Lists and Suggested Reading
- 49. Home Made RSS Feeds and Cover Browser
- 50. Online New Book Display
- 51. XML Tricks: AADL
- 52. John Wenzler ( [email_address] ) Slides: http://online.sfsu.edu/~jwenzler/research/webPAC2.ppt Handout: http://online.sfsu.edu/~jwenzler/research/webPAC2.pdf