In his article, Away from the icebergs, Rick Anderson says "patrons will expect access to everything". Our implementation of the AquaBrowser catalog interface started Howard County Library down the future path with its ranking of popular titles in search results, faceted browsing, and RSS feeds. AquaBrowser improved access to our electronic resources, and spidering has provided access to a subset of Medline Plus, The Library of Congress' American Memory Collection, and the content of the Library's website.
Moving to the open-source ILS, KOHA, will take us further down the future path. The ability to implement FRBR in the display of titles from our collection, where all versions of a title will be concatenated into a single hit, will be a breakthrough. I'm especially excited about implementing social networking through KOHA. The content that will be added through customer tagging, reviews and rankings can only serve to enhance findability through our catalog.
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