Library of Congress Webcast about OPACs - Life Beyond MARC

I just finished watching this webast and am amazed that almost 2 years later that OPACs are still terrible! I do like what NCSU is doing with Endeca, but I don't know of much else going on to make OPACs more user friendly. If you do that same search in Amazon.com and your OPAC on the two words, Shakespeare Hamlet, check out the difference in results. It's amazing how much OPACs are truly meant for librarians and not patrons.

TITLE: Life Beyond MARC: the Case for Revolutionary Change in Library Systems and Services
SPEAKER: Roy Tennant
EVENT DATE: 09/15/2005
RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes
DESCRIPTION:Roy Tennant makes a case for revolutionary change in the ways libraries do their business and make their offerings available to the public via the Internet.

Life Beyond MARC: the Case for Revolutionary Change in Library Systems and Services Webcast (Library of Congress)

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