23 things plus 5: VuFind

time to do another of the library 23 things plus 5 tasks...

VuFind works well the National Library of Australia catalogue. i appreciate the links to the online visual material and the integration of various apects of a library page. (catalogue, electronic journals etc). i guess that it is indicative of the way the internet has been changing the way that i think about a library catalogue. NLA, especially through it's picture asutralia site, has meant that i have a higher expectation of visual material being freely available over the internet. sometimes i find it frustrating that all i have is the catalogue record for something, even though it's more than i may have had in the past.

the following site from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is a case in point. 'The Consortium of MnPALS Libraries is composed of all of the libraries of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, as well as private college and university libraries, state government libraries, public libraries, school libraries and special libraries.' (http://www.mnpals.org/sections/MnPALS_Consortium.html) it's remarkable that i can access all records for all the material from a broad range of libraries, but as a visual person, i do like images.