Blyberg's SOPAC
This isn't breaking news at this point, but it's still cool. John Blyberg has announced what he calls "SOPAC":
Anyway, you should check out his post about it, which even has a nifty screencast.
*Tim has blogged before about putting LT and OPACs... We're thinking it'll be a sort of OPAC widget, so hold onto your hats.
It’s basically a set of social networking tools integrated into the AADL catalog. It gives users the ability to rate, review, comment-on, and tag items.Tags, ratings, and reviews in an OPAC! I think it's great that he's done it— it's no surprise that we'd love to put some of LT's features into OPACs, and to see a big library like AADL take on social stuff legitimates the point.*
Anyway, you should check out his post about it, which even has a nifty screencast.
*Tim has blogged before about putting LT and OPACs... We're thinking it'll be a sort of OPAC widget, so hold onto your hats.
posted by Abby at 10:58 PM
2 Comments:
Finally! LibraryThing has spoiled me so much that I've been getting impatient with our catalog -- which is very good, but lacking the wonderful social software. I'll be showing this to our SA in the morning. Thank you for sharing this, Abby!
I'd love to embed LT into our OPAC! At my library, we're considering a custom interface so patrons don't even have to see the ILS, but it's going to be expensive, difficult, and time-consuming. Anything we can do in the meantime to improve things will be welcome.
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