Examples of catalogs (nb: ~2006)

This page was current as of about 2006. It is unlikely that any of these links are still valid; however, one can consider this a snapshot of efforts at that time.

Single Library Catalogs

• Santa Clara County (using Bibliocommons interface with social networking)
• North Carolina State University Library Catalog
• E41ST
• fac-back-opac from Dan Scott at Laurentian University, try it out here
• Aquabrowser at Queens Library
• Lamson Library
• Lexington Public Library Catalogue Aquabrowser
• UCLA Film & Television Archive catalog
• Hennepin County Library's Bookspace
• Danbury Public Library integrates "Other editions and translations," "Tags," and "Similar Books" from Library Thing. Here's a link to a sample record: Bridget Jones's Diary
• State Library of Tasmania
• Blacklight @ University of Virginia (experimental). Here's a sample search: walt whitman
• McMaster University -- use the second search box.
• Phoenix Public Library -- browse down left side or keyword search at top.
• University of Washington WorldCat local beta.
• Nelsonville Public Library Athens County, OH. Uses Koha open source ILS.
• Georgia Pines Georgia. A public library consortium site that uses the Evergreen open source ILS. Uses facets created from results to submit new searches, instead of refining the current search.
• MyResearch Portal Villanova University, Villanova, PA. Solr + Lucene open source indexer still in beta.
• Galileo Digital Library of Georgia, University of Georgia. Search in top left.
• Vanderbilt running PRIMO in beta Endeavor's PRIMO.
• OPAC using Drupal with Millennium integration module and Apache Solr Drupal is an open source CMS, vastly configurable with modules. The millennium module extracts records from a live Millennium Web Opac installation. Apache Solr is a java server that provides fast faceted search; it talks to Drupal using the apachesolr module. This site also uses Google CSE to metasearch subscription and free databases.
• University of Chicago LENS
• Scherzo, a faceted catalog of music works

Union Catalogs

• WorldCat.org
• National Library of Australia Lucene Demonstrator
• Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) -- still in beta
• LIBRIS: joint catalogue of the Swedish academic and research libraries. Available also as Linked data

Other Catalogs / Commercial faceted sites

• Google Books and here's a link to a sample record: Bate's biography of Keats
• Amazon - Books and here's a link to a sample record: Pepys's Diary
• Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive
• WalMart Books
• Barnes and Noble Facets best illustrated when browsing.
• Chapters Canadian bookstore.

Experiments with FRBR

• VTLS
• FictionFinder (OCLC)
• Open Library
• litero, A FRBRized library catalog

Catalog Software

• Endeca
• Aquabrowser
• VUFind
• should koha and evergreen be in here?

Other Related Software

• Springshare's social networking tools for libraries
• Solr. Also see this page for an overview of Solr in libraries.
• Lucene
• Bungee View Open source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections.