Bibliocommons Has First Live Release

摘要

As reported in Library Journal, July 19, 2008, BiblioCommons, a new social discovery system for libraries that replaces all user-facing OPAC functionality, allowing for faceted searching and easier user commenting and tagging, has gone live in Oakville, ON, a city of 160,000 outside Toronto. It is expected to be used by public libraries serving more than half of Canada's population - and some libraries in the USA, too. "This is revolutionary, as far as I'm concerned", Gail Richardson, Oakville Public Library's acting director of online services, told LJ. "People don't want a library that acts like just a glorified card catalog online. They want a catalog that's as good as Google and Amazon".