Wow, I realize I have not contributed a real blog post here in a long time. I started my Fall class last Thursday and I was thinking about my class project just now. I have to create a dynamic website of some sort, of course my choices include just about anything, but there seems to be no point of doing a project like this unless I can apply it to something useful in the library realm. I know this is overly ambitious but I would love to try my hand at a public library catalog.
As a side note, I've dropped the use of the acronym OPAC from my vocabulary. I'm trying very hard to avoid using this, even with my colleagues. I think OPAC should be banished from our vocabulary for good. I especially think we should not be using this term with our patrons, and I know quite a lot of librarians who do. One of the first things I did at our branch was change our signage, our public catalogs were labeled as OPACs which is just not right.
Back to my project, obviously I can't create a system with the functionality of a complete ILS, but I might be able to attempt something on the public side that at least outlines what features are completely missing from the vendor choices we have now.
Since this is an ambitious project I might have to have a backup project on hand, since with this class our website actually has to work.
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