Looking to make your online public access catalogue sexier? or build your own replacement?
The papers from Beyond the OPAC: future directions for web-based catalogues are now available online at the National Library of Australia’s website.

Actually, not just papers there are also audio and powerpoints available.

I particularly liked Lloyd Sokvitne’s (OPACs and the real information marketplace : why providing a mediocre product at a high price no longer works) PPT and Tony Boston’s (Seeding search engines with data from the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD)) contained something I’ve been wanting for quite some time. The code for a Libraries Australia search box.

If you’d like to try it out you can find it one in the sidebar of my other blog.