John Blyberg has done it again! On September 1 Darien Library went live with their new website and OPAC.

SOPAC 2.0 (“Social OPAC”) focuses on community for both users and library software developers. The roughly 20,000 residents of Darien will be the first to benefit from and contribute content to the new library catalog, but the software is built to tap into a much larger community of users, incorporating shared aggregate user data sets, similar to products like LibraryThing for Libraries and BiblioCommons. As Blyberg has said, a larger community is necessary for a critical mass of content for robust search and discovery.

Very very cool and well worth looking at. Read more of Josh Hadro’s article about SOPAC 2.0.

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