Angela and myself took a trip across the Pennines to visit Dave Pattern at the University of Huddersfield. The main purpose of the trip was to look at developments on their OPAC but we also talked Summon and repositories.
Dave's added lots of enhancements to their OPAC (Horizon, Sirsi Dynix):
Keyword search tag cloud - on the front page of the OPAC. Shows most popular search terms - very popular at the start of term.
Keyword suggestions - suggestions of other related keywords to include in your search
Stats available to staff - restricted by IP range staff can see loan statistics for the book they are looking at in the catalogue.
People who borrowed this also borrowed.... - following the introduction of this a bigger range of stock has been borrowed, more books have been borrowed and people are renewing less often
Other editions - uses data from Library Thing
Virtual Shelf browse - most popular feature - let's you browse the shelf (by classmark) from the OPAC
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
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