Designing a web OPAC for today
Casey Bisson's Maison Bisson blog discusses Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0.
In this post, he talks about today's "better and more useful" web and how Web 2.0 is a reflection of the critical masses and NOT technology. He also mentions how the web is being used more and more for mundane activities and not so much social software.
Casey raises a major question, and that is:
"...how to design a web OPAC for today is a question of how to design an information service in a world rich with information services and filled with users who make information seeking — though not necessarily at libraries — part of their everyday lives."
So how DO we design a web OPAC using today's technological advances and rich information services?
Read about Fixing the OPAC on Scriblio as well.
In this post, he talks about today's "better and more useful" web and how Web 2.0 is a reflection of the critical masses and NOT technology. He also mentions how the web is being used more and more for mundane activities and not so much social software.
Casey raises a major question, and that is:
"...how to design a web OPAC for today is a question of how to design an information service in a world rich with information services and filled with users who make information seeking — though not necessarily at libraries — part of their everyday lives."
So how DO we design a web OPAC using today's technological advances and rich information services?
Read about Fixing the OPAC on Scriblio as well.
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