Professional Reading: Schneider on What’s Wrong With OPACS (aka Why They Suck)
Professional Reading: Schneider on What’s Wrong With OPACS (aka Why They Suck)
An online discussion on LawLibTech by Karen Schneider about what’s wrong with online public access catalogs. As many of you know, Karen is Director of the essential Librarians’ Internet Index. We haven’t had a chance to read Karen’s postings yet (we will for sure) but one way the library community as a whole blew it (in the early days of the web) was by not adding more direct links to OPACS. In other words, not only linking to the web site of a serial that was available but also directly adding notes to those entries and separate entries as well and directly linking to specific features. For example, a link to Forbes (the physical item) would also contain direct links to lists and rankings that Forbes produces. I still think adding items to an OPAC from the LII (for example) might not be a bad idea at all. Thanks to TVC Alert for the news tip.