OPAC tweaks presentation given at the CODI 2009 Conference

1. A Hipper HIP
Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield
d.c.pattern@hud.ac.uk

2. Preamble
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3. Contents
• Spellchecker
• xISBN
• Google Book Search
• ticTOCs
• LibraryThing
• …and more

4. Spell checker
• All OPAC keyword searches were
monitored over a six month period
• Approx 23% of searches gave zero
results
– 74 people entered “renew” as a keyword(!)
• Users expect suggestions and prompts,
not “dead end” pages

5. Spell checker

6. Ratings and comments

7. Other editions
• Uses web services provided by OCLC and
LibraryThing to locate other editions and
related works within local holdings
– www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/
– www.librarything.com/api

8. Other editions

9. Email alerts

10. RSS feeds

11. RSS feeds

12. RSS feeds

13. Google Book Search

14. Virtual shelf browser

15. LibraryThing

16. ticTOCs

17. Item usage

23. Thank you!
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