I usually don’t like to re-blog but this is too great and always thought that this was a major problem with our public catalog. Dynix, with its next upgrade, will be offering spelling suggestions in the same vein as any search engine worth its salt. Thanks to Davey P. I know we are getting our upgrade this year but when is anyone’s guess.
So if i was going to make a wish list for a library catalog
A simple search that offers a page rank type of feature
Spell Check & spelling suggestions
RSS Feeds for titles, subjects, authors, item status, whatever
RSS Feeds for items out, requests, overdues
Email notifications
Keyword relevance clustering & clouding
Patron ratings and comments (like Netflix & Amazon)
Table of contents for items
Skins for patron personas
Image galleries of indexed ISBNs
If you like… referrals
A simple Queue feature with Drag and Drop
A portable multiple platform toolbar that users could install
Search all local libraries feature
Popularity & bestseller flagging and Media tie-in integration (if they can grab the bookcover based the ISBN why not a database of popular books)