{"id":2171,"date":"2007-10-26T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=424"},"modified":"2007-10-26T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T17:08:13","slug":"adding-functionality-to-the-web-opac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/adding-functionality-to-the-web-opac.html","title":{"rendered":"Adding Functionality to the Web OPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dltj.org\/2007\/10\/web-opac-schemes\/\">Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC<\/a> is a posting by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dltj.org\/\">Disruptive Library Technology Jester<\/a> (a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/dltj.org\/about\/\">Peter Murray<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiolink.edu\/\">OhioLINK<\/a>)\u00a0in which he lays out a basic categorization of ways in which libraries can get their OPACs to do more.<\/p>\n<p>This list is interesting in many ways, not the least of which is that on first read\u00a0this seems to be a very good foundation for examining the options available to libraries.\u00a0 So much depends on the current state of your library&#8217;s OPAC (which integrated library system (ILS) you have, how it is hosted, who has the authority to make changes, and your library&#8217;s human\/technical resources), but this gives a starting point to see just what a library can do with the available resources.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I keep revisiting a desire to revamp OPACs that are sorely in need of improvement.\u00a0 When I worked for a Voyager library, I set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarysupportstaff.org\/kishtools\/voysearch\/index.html\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarysupportstaff.org\/kishtools\/booleancube\/booleancube.html\">this<\/a> (each developed by someone else, but that I configured to work for my library).\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t found anything like these for my current situation, but <a href=\"http:\/\/about.scriblio.net\/\">Scriblio<\/a> sounds like a possible option.\u00a0 The faceted searching alone would make it worthwhile.\u00a0 I may get creative over the next couple of months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/stax\/2178\/four-concrete-ways-the-opac-can-not-suck-and-you-can-help\/\">Librarian.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC is a posting by\u00a0Disruptive Library Technology Jester (a.k.a. Peter Murray of OhioLINK)\u00a0in which he lays out a basic categorization of ways in which libraries can get their OPACs to do more. 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