Proxying the OPAC

Mary brought this up as something to start thinking about: What's the best way to proxy items in the catalog? What are others doing?
Ideas?

Library Technology Reports, Reinventing the OPAC

I was just reading some recent articles in: "Library Technology Reports" in EBSCOhost. The new issue has some interesting articles regarding OPAC trends.

Reinventing the OPAC. By: Eden, Brad. Library Technology Reports, Nov/Dec2007, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p13-40, 28p;

The article cited above is a listing of resources (links, quotes and opinions) that discuss the reuse and reconceptualization of OPAC , i.e. “lipstick on a pig”. Other articles in the recent issues discuss other options such as Library 2.0.

Jul/Aug (43:4)—Marshall Breeding: "Next-Gen Catalogs"
Sep/Oct (43:5)—Michael Stephens: "Web 2.0 & Libraries, Part 2: Trends and Technologies"
Nov/Dec (43:6)—Brad Eden: "Information Organization Futures for Libraries"
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This is a link for fun and is one of the sites noted in the article above. I am pretty sure that is a Voyager catalog in the YouTube video.

The Opac Sucks
http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/bd_opac.htm
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Happy T-Day to all...
Mary (Matas Library)
medref@tulane.edu

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Backup Catalog

The backup catalog is located at:
http://systems.library.tulane.edu/voy.php

The new possibility for the backup catalog is the Fac-back-opac. See it at:
http://library.paulsmiths.edu/catalog/

Spell Check possibiliity

Here's a possibility for a spell checker:
http://librarycogs.blogspot.com/2007/03/spellchecker-for-webvoyage.html

To see it in action, visit:
http://waikato.lconz.ac.nz/

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