Examples of Possible Next Generation Catalogs
Post here any library catalogs or other systems that are interesting and might give people good ideas.
Single Library Catalogs
- Santa Clara County (using Bibliocommons interface with social networking)
- North Carolina State University Library Catalog
- E41ST
- fac-back-opac from Dan Scott at Laurentian University, try it out here
- Aquabrowser at Queens Library
- Lamson Library
- Lexington Public Library Catalogue Aquabrowser
- UCLA Film & Television Archive catalog
- Hennepin County Library's Bookspace
- Danbury Public Library integrates "Other editions and translations," "Tags," and "Similar Books" from Library Thing. Here's a link to a sample record: Bridget Jones's Diary
- State Library of Tasmania
- Blacklight @ University of Virginia (experimental). Here's a sample search: walt whitman
- McMaster University -- use the second search box.
- Phoenix Public Library -- browse down left side or keyword search at top.
- University of Washington WorldCat local beta.
- Nelsonville Public Library Athens County, OH. Uses Koha open source ILS.
- Georgia Pines Georgia. A public library consortium site that uses the Evergreen open source ILS. Uses facets created from results to submit new searches, instead of refining the current search.
- MyResearch Portal Villanova University, Villanova, PA. Solr + Lucene open source indexer still in beta.
- Galileo Digital Library of Georgia, University of Georgia. Search in top left.
- Vanderbilt running PRIMO in beta Endeavor's PRIMO.
- OPAC using Drupal with Millennium integration module and Apache Solr Drupal is an open source CMS, vastly configurable with modules. The millennium module extracts records from a live Millennium Web Opac installation. Apache Solr is a java server that provides fast faceted search; it talks to Drupal using the apachesolr module. This site also uses Google CSE to metasearch subscription and free databases.
- University of Chicago LENS
- Scherzo, a faceted catalog of music works
Union Catalogs
Other Catalogs / Commercial faceted sites
Experiments with FRBR
Catalog Software
Other Related Software
- Springshare's social networking tools for libraries
- Solr. Also see this page for an overview of Solr in libraries.
- Lucene
- Bungee View Open source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections.