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20/02/2005
My Local Library
To my complete delight my local library finally has their catalogue online! Blacktown Library Catalogue
They are using Spydus, a catalogue system I'm familiar with from other jobs. It was announced in the local press a couple of days ago and I finally had a play with it today. Very searchable, clean interface, can refine and sort results. I like it! And being hooked on the net and too busy I can figure out what I want before I go in, reserve items and (I haven't tried it yet, not having anything out of loan at the moment) can check my loans record.
At my work we use First and have made the grave mistake of leaving the word 'monograph' in the limit list of the public access interface. Hands up non-library people who understand the word monograph? Yeah, and how many of you are close to library staff or are heavy users of libraries or book collectors or work in bookstores or something similar? As library people we can use lingo amongst ourselves as much as we like, it's very good at clarifying exactly what we mean, but everyone knows by now that it's rude to use lingo from any system on people outside of the system.
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