Imagine……….

(Inspired by a 9th grader who was embarassed that she could not find information in a book for her research assignment.)

A library catalog where you could choose the kind of search you wanted to do:

1. A traditional subject search

2. A keyword search

3. A table of contents search (The table of contents would also pop up next to the picture and title of a book- just like Google Books, Amazon et al)

4. An index search

5. A full text search

In a world where everyone is drowning in information – how wonderful would it be to be able to do a truly thorough search of our carefully selected local holdings?!

Ahhhh!! The dreams go on…..

How about……. “People who checked out this book, also checked out these other books….”

How about …. “let us know what you think about this book”……..

How about ….. “join a chat/discussion group about this book”………

Yes, yes, yes, I know – filtering inappropriate comments, online security and on and on. It is still worth dreaming!!