NJIT catalog: book covers, PURLS, tagging, usage stats, and reviews (from Amazon)

I'd like to submit the package of enhancements we've made to our NJIT catalog for the Mashing Up The Library 2006 competition. We have added book covers, PURLS (persistent links), ability for our users to tag book records to their del.icio.us accounts, exposed usage statistics, and Amazon book reviews to our catalog.

Please see the presentation I did at the 2006 Endeavor Annual User Conference at http://www.library.njit.edu/staff-folders/robertson/presentations/2006-04-21-emulating-amazon-robertson-session-37.ppt.

Screenshot also at: http://web.njit.edu/~robertso/njit-catalog-screenshot1.jpg.

Here's the rub: if you go into our catalog today, you won't see them. This is being re-tooled at the moment for relaunch by the start of our fall academic semester (first week in Sep). So, read the presentation now (with plenty of screen shots) and check our catalog live in mid-Sep.

-- Jim Robertson, Assistant University Librarian, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)