This from Sharon Moreland at the MaintainIT Project Blog:

1. It’s web based.
2. The simple search box can be added to our Web site, making it a one-step process to find a book.
3. Patrons can keep track of what they’ve checked out - they can choose to keep their circulation history information. No more initials in the books, although I think my westerns will always be ‘branded’ by my manly readers.
4. Everyone in the NExpress consortium will open up their entire collections - so we’ll have access to at least 23 more copies of best sellers and can get to Nortonville’s video game collection.
5. Search results can be sorted by popularity, author, title, call number, publication date or acquisition date. With Sirsi, the hit list is organized based on the last time a bibliographic record was edited. That just makes absolutely no sense to me.
6. There are pictures and reader reviews from Amazon.com, complete with the star rating system.
7. Patrons can leave comments!
8. There are plot descriptions.
9. There will be seamless connections to the Kansas Library Catalog for patron-initiated ILL’s.
10. With the “Editions” tab, you can find the title you want and then pick how you want it - audio, large print, mass market paper back, or hard cover.

Very cool!! Keep up with Sharon’s story at the MaintainIT Project Blog.

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