* emailing & texting titles
* saving favourites
* the Narrow Search column suggesting other options
* limiting your search to books only with illustrations
* the different formats all shown in one search
I did enjoy searching the National Library catalogue, as they've used VuFind really effectively & obviously done quite a bit of customizing too. When you arrive at the initial screen it's just clear, clean looking & easy to use.
Having recently been to the Central desert & Lake Eyre I decided to look for material on Lake Eyre. The search found so many interesting things including historical pictures, journal articles, books, links to activist websites, when the Arabunna people were in conflict with Western Mining over land & water rights & much more..... a real cross section & treasure trove of information in many forms.
Given that VuFind is open source & customizable it could be really useful to use in conjunction with a new OPAC.
photo:The Australian String Quartet on Lake Hart, a small lake in the Lake Eyre Basin
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