I thought someone on this list might be interested in this. I now have a
proof of concept running on our staging port of an autocomplete/live
search feature for the opac. You may have seen this type of feature on
sites like Amazon or Zip.ca. It comes back with different results
depending on which search field the user selects (title, keyword,
author, subject, call number). Since there is no keyword index per se,
keyword also uses the title index. The feature kicks in after the user
has typed at least 3 characters.
I'm curious if anyone knows of other library catalogues that do
something like this. Someone pointed out to me that BiblioCommons has a
feature like this. Does anyone know of others?
You can try it out here:
http://search.cambridgelibraries.ca:2082/search
There is some background info on the feature here:
http://ex-libris.ca/?p=694
Mike
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Mike Cunningham
Web Services Librarian
Cambridge Libraries
Received on Wed Feb 18 2009 - 12:39:22 EST