Possible Webpacs: Where can you go and how do you get there

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Possible WebpacsWhere can you go and how do you
get there?
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The Anxiety of Freedom

• Get quote from the Paradox of Choice.

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Overview

• What is Webpac Pro?
• What do we have to do?
• Possibilities What can we do?
• How do we do it?

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What is Webpac Pro? The Narrow Definition

• Better keyword searching (RightResults)
• More control over the Record Display
  (bib_display.html, webpub.def)
• More Control over the Browse Display
  (briefcit.html, browse_50)
• RSS Feeds, Patron reviews

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What is Webpac Pro?The Broad Definitions

• The next generation in public catalogs 2007
  IUG
• A Web 2.0 OPAC?
• Hey, our OPAC doesnt suck as much as people say
  it does

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The OPAC Sucks Meme
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What you Have to do

• Nothing
• If your webpac works for you now, Pro wont break
  it
• Outsource re-design Webpac Refresher??
• Hide the webpac instead of improving it
  WorldCat Local, Encore

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WorldCat Local Webpac in the Back Office
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Encore Webpac as Cyrano de Bergerac
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Webpac for data, not for display
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Possibilities Overview

• Innovative Interfaces Enhancements
• Third-party Enhancements
• Home Made Enhancements

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III Enhancements InnReach/Link
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III Enhancements Link II
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III Enhancements WebbridgeAdding Smart Links to
the OPAC
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The Webbridge Window Directing Patrons to
Appropriate content
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Webbridge as a Research Assistant Literary
Databases for Literary Call Numbers
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Webbridge as Research Assistant Engineering
Databases for Engineering Call Numbers
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III Enhancements ERM can add a Database
Pathfinder to the Webpac
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ERM Browsing Eresources
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ERM Resource Information
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III Enhancements ERM automatically can add
Ejournals to Webpac
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III Enhancements Metadata Builder
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III Enhancements Millennium Media Management
Using webpac as a digital archive
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III Enhancements Spellcheck searching for
ediquette
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III Enhancements Patron Reviews Harry got
Married?
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III Enhancements Reading History
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III Enhancements Preferred Searches
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III Enhancements Patron Self Registration
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III Enhancements RSS Catalog Feeds
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III EnhancementsRSS Patron Feeds
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Third Party Enhancements Library Thing
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Third Party Enhancements LibraryThing Suggestions
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Third Party Enhancements Library Thing Tag
Browser
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