It's so interesting how as soon as I read about something in class, or complete a project, what I learned pops up in my work.
This week we had a meeting and the executive director of the library gave a brief presentation on vufind, a library resource portal. AccessPA is testing it out and go figure.... it's Open Source!
It uses the Evergreen System and I guess vufind kinda pops on top of it.
Click around and check out the test site.
It pulls in reviews from Amazon.com and Biographical information from Wikipedia, all free resources.
I don't work in circulation or in the cataloguing department in my library, but just as a customer, trying to utilize the Millenium Catalog is a pain in the butt sometimes. Vufind won't be solving all of the issues, but it's certainly a really big step in the right direction!
