I love my alma mater. They’ve just rocked out their catalog. NCSU’s catalog offers searching in a newish way. There’s extensive use of relevance ranking, spelling help, advanced searching, and call number browsing.
Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog has a great discussion of the changes, considers how this OPAC places value on the metadata investment that librarians have made previsouly, and considers how OPACs can be designed to include more searching features. This post features a comment from Andrew Pace, NCSU tech-librarian-guru. (While there, check out the great link for the PDF report from the University of California on bibliographic infrastructure and catalog design.)
The ALA TechSource Blog posted about the OPAC, too.
Finally, Findability.org writer Peter Morville (of Ambient Findability fame) even wrote NCSU’s OPAC up in his blog.
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