SOPAC 2.1: The Road Ahead

As the summer rolls on, I thought I would post a quick update on the status of SOPAC 2.1. We have a lot of irons in the fire right now, but to give you an idea of what's coming, here is a rundown of what you can expect to see when 2.1 is release, sometime in the next two months:

Enhancements

- Multi-branch support
- Incorporation of 3rd-party data into discovery index (Syndetics, Amazon, etc)
- Destination login links within the catalog
- "X of Y copies" availability in the hitlist and record view
- Limit searches to available items
- Links for downloadable items
- Vacation holds (pause your holds)
- Internationalization
- Native support for diacritics

Modules

- Support for shared/no email address
- RSS everything
- Wish lists
- Twitter broadcasting
- Saved searches as a separate module
- Summer Reading module
- Checkout History
- Recommendation engine
- Search statistics
- SMS notifications / support
- "Recommend to a friend"
- Auto-renew items

What are your thoughts? What would you like to see featured in SOPAC?