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Casey Bisson, information architect for Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library, has recently received the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his new open source application known as WPopac.
WPopac is basically a library catalogue based on WordPress that allows library users to add information to the holding records online. It represents the bibliographic collection of a library in an easily searchable web-based format. Just by viewing a record display, you can see the huge potential of WPopac in encouraging users to actively engage with the library and with other users who have similar interests. Check out these great links in each record:
-“Find in WorldCat Libraries”
-“find more like this”
-“add to del.icio.us”
-“list of related works”
-“Search inside this book via Amazon.com”
-“Comments”

More information about WPopac:
WPopac for Lamson Library’s collection
WPopac blog
Plymouth State University’s press release

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  1. Steven Matthews
    December 7th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

    Excellent pick-up Agnese! I’ve never seen this tool before, but it looks very impressive. I love the potential of microformats & structured blogging for libraries. And the fact that this application is a WordPress plugin makes it look like a pretty simple install.

    If I can find some time in the new year, I may just ‘test drive’ this one. :-)

    Thanks!