What should we do...Part 2

What can we do about it?

• outsource redesign (webPAC refresher service -- $$ from III)
• hide the WebPAC (behind a "discovery layer" -- like Encore / BiblioComm / WorldCat Local (first two libs to try were III libs)
  
• enhance the WebPAC
• Scriblio:
• open source wrapper
• Plymouth State University (Casey Bisson)
• uses a word press blog
• no separation btw lib web site and opac...interesting...hidden (or *seamless* opac -- open source)
• Solrpac: Miami Univ
• Solar (indexing) + Drupl (cms)
• exports bibs from iii to new interface
• facets
• King County Library System
• Aquabrowser (from Bowker)
• hip skin for WebPac
• facets
• Encore
• WebPac as Cyrano de Bergerac!!!
• takes your records and displays them in a different way
• more intimate relationsihp with OPAC than 3rd party options (no sync / uploads needed)
• Enhancements overview
• iii enhancements
• InnReach (like WorldCat local)
• WebBridge
• Pathfinder Pro (like WebBridge for the opac)...links out to web based onyour bibs (eg. set certain call numbers to highlight literary databases / subject guides)
• ERM as a database pathfinder in the webPac...good idea -- how much?
• eg: Bowling Green State University (BGSU)...
• Virtual Coll inegrated in to the cat...also can add the A-Z journal title list
  
• MetaData builder and media management (iii product to store digital images...think about using this for NWO History stuff????)
• spellcheck (one of Karen Schneider's OPAC suck-isms)
• patron reviews
• reading history / preferred searches (DONE!!! :) )
• RSS Cat feeds ("product" but easy to do on your own...see notes for Bob Duncan presentation) (feeds for eg. for new books and patron info)
  
• 3rd party enhancements
• Library Thing for Libraries (San Fransisco State Univ Lib did)
• tapping in to tags / recommendations / read-a-likes of LThing users
• tag browser -- adding collective wisdom to webPAC (similar philosophy to google search results -- popularity contest!)
• Syndetics (Got it!)
• LibX
  
• adding WebPAC to the browser...patrons would have to install (Virginia Tech did it)...also adds your cat to amazon
  
• home made enhancements