Plymouth State University Interactive Catalog
Plymouth State University was recognized by the Mellon Foundation for its development of WPOPAC, an innovative online public access catalog system that allows any library to make its online catalog interactive, by turning each library record (e.g., each book or serial) into a blog page onto which users can post their own comments and content. The Committee noted WPOPAC¡¦s ability to enable online library access in libraries of any size, as well as the project¡¦s potential to engage patrons more deeply and interactively with libraries and their offerings. Plymouth State plans to use the award to purchase catalog content from the Library of Congress and make it freely available to all, thereby eliminating a substantial cost barrier to the online publication of catalogs by small libraries. Check it out at http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/