Why my patrons should love Koha ZOOM
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 by Nicole C. EngardThis from Sharon Moreland at the MaintainIT Project Blog:
- It’s web based.
- The simple search box can be added to our Web site, making it a one-step process to find a book.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are pictures and reader reviews from Amazon.com, complete with the star rating system.
- Patrons can leave comments!
- There are plot descriptions.
- There will be seamless connections to the Kansas Library Catalog for patron-initiated ILL’s.
- 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.
