Saw a shelf browse created for an Innovative (III) OPAC that is quite neat. It lives on a development site for the Cambridge Public Library in Ontario, Canada and integrates Syndetic Solutions book covers into a pseudo-shelf listing. Here is a direct link to a record.
Note that this has been done without resorting to Flash. Try turning off the page’s CSS and you will see that it works just fine (just with a different scroll direction). The page’s html still doesn’t validate, but I suspect that there aren’t any III opacs that validate properly, though I hope to be proven wrong someday.
Someday libraries will collectively understand what a good API can do for our web presence, and then the ILS companies will improve their products accordingly. At least I hope so….
thanks to Mike Cunningham for posting the link to the Innovative User’s Group list
