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WebPAC Pro is a complete update to your Web OPAC interface, offering new functionality, customization options, and improved user experience. It integrates seamlessly with courseware, campus portals, and RSS feeds, providing a modern and user-friendly interface for your library resources.
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Arkansas Innovative Users Group WebPAC Pro Tim Whisenant Customer Sales Consultant Nathan James Senior Sales System Engineer
Presentation Focus • WebPAC Pro • Major new functionality for your Web OPAC • Courseware Integration for BlackBoard™ • Single Sign-On and Integrate with Millennium • Single Sign-On • Integration with campus portals • Incoming RSS feeds – Rel. 2006LE • Outgoing RSS feeds – Feed Builder • My Record Feeds • Spell Check
If Your Current Web OPAC interface inspires comments like these… • “I can look up all my holdings on OCLC WorldCat” • “I prefer using Google or Amazon” • “Other web sites are much more interactive” You need WebPAC Pro for all of these reasons and more!
What is WebPAC Pro? • WebPAC Pro is a complete updating of the Web OPAC interface • WebPAC Pro allows increased flexibility over the screen layout • WebPAC Pro has new tools to define and extend your brand • WebPAC Pro supports major new functionality • WebPAC Pro offers your users all the benefits of the integrated system in a single location WebPAC Pro available as part of Rel. 2006 (Summer 2006)
WebPAC Pro: Complete Customization Improved compliance with W3C standards
WebPAC Pro Complete, integrated view of library resources
WebPAC Pro One View of the Web OPAC “People don’t want to type in search terms”
WebPAC Pro A Quick Quiz… Name top web sites (highly unofficial)
WebPAC Pro • Each of these web sites have things in common: • Their brand • User interface with a mix of search terms and browsable areas • Interactive – “Sticky” • Delivery of content in addition to Metadata • Efficient user interface designed to… Get to information FAST “I want the information I need – NOT what I typed in!!!”
WebPAC Pro: Spell Check When a “no-hit” query is entered, WebPAC Pro responds with “Did you mean?”
WebPAC Pro: Spell Check By selecting “more”, the user can view and select from the thesaurus
WebPAC Pro: RightResult™ • RightResult™ brings the records you are looking for to the top of the result set – just like Google™ • RightResult™ does this through advanced relevance ranking • Results are grouped by Relevance, and sorted within the group • Solves an issue of traditional keyword searching, when newest records – not the best records – are displayed first
Keyword Searching without RightResult™Keyword Search = good to great
Keyword Searching without RightResult™Keyword Search = good to great Title: Good to Great appears on Screen 7, entries 64 and 68!
Keyword Searching without RightResult™Keyword Search = good to great
Keyword Searching without RightResult™Keyword Search = good to great Title: Good to Great appears on Screen 2, entry 13, and Screen 11, entry 103! Default: unsorted results
Keyword Searching with RightResult™ Titles: Good to Great are entries 1-3 on screen 1!
WebPAC Pro Search screen in separate defined region
WebPAC Pro Links to Library-Defined OPAC options
WebPAC Pro Topical Browse with Deep-Linking or WebBridge
Improved Navigation / User Interface Integrated E-Resource Management
Improved Record Displays Separate clickable “regions” in the record display
WebPAC Pro: RSS Feed Builder Feed Builder: Millennium data is sent via RSS to Portals, or your Millennium system
WebPAC Pro: RSS Feed Builder Feedbuilder uses lists or queries and delivers RSS
WebPAC Pro: My Record Feeds My Millennium account information Delivered to external portal via RSS
Courseware Integration with Blackboard • Single Sign-on from Blackboard to My Millennium and the Web OPAC • Direct link to Web OPAC view of Course Record from Blackboard • Ability to submit a Web OPAC search from Blackboard • Ability to submit a MetaFind search from Blackboard
Single Sign-on: Millennium to Campus Portal Access to patron record …leads to main University site without re-authentication
Single Sign-On: Campus Portal to Millennium Log-in to University portal ..leads to logged-in library access without re-authentication!
Single Sign-On …leads to University site without re-authentication Access to patron record
Benefits of WebPAC Pro • WebPAC Pro provides a customizable, modern Web interface • WebPAC Pro provides functionality users expect from the Web • WebPAC Pro promotes campus interoperability