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# Nelsonville catalog
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/nelsonville-catalog/
- Published: 2007-01-13T21:03:39.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:37:39.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions, #MPOW, Social, Systems, UX

[Mentioning](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001242.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) Koha the other day reminded me that I have used the Nelsonville Public Library catalog in a couple of [recent presentations](https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/presentations.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net). It serves Athens County in South East Ohio and uses Koha.  
See the entry for this title: [*The art of Richard Diebenkorn*](https://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/bib/64462?ref=lorcandempsey.net).  
They provide access to Amazon search inside the book, reviews and details. They also link out to Oplin (a state-wide public library network), to [Worldcat](https://worldcat.org/search?q=The%20art%20of%20Richard%20Diebenkorn%20%2F&ref=lorcandempsey.net), and to [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The%20art%20of%20Richard%20Diebenkorn%20%2F&ref=lorcandempsey.net). Interestingly they label these **local databases**, **other libraries** and **other databases** respectively.  
They don’t [geographically limit](https://worldcat.org/links/default.jsp?ref=lorcandempsey.net#geolimiting) the Worldcat search ([here](https://worldcat.org/oclc/36083662&loc=ohio?ref=lorcandempsey.net) is a search for that book across Ohio). Of course, once one begins to compose different pieces like this one runs into interesting implementation choices.  
I liked their [virtual shelves](https://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?ref=lorcandempsey.net) – even if there are not yet very many. And I liked the way that they show the **status** (checked out, in transit, …), **due date**, and **last seen** date of an item.  
Results can be ranked in various ways (I wonder how they measure popularity?), and they allow you to refine searches through the emerging convention of a left hand stack of searchable attributes (places, branches, authors, topics, series, …).  
For those with new year resolve, they have some canned searches on the home page.  
Get organized: [https://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/search?q=organize&op=and&op=and&op=and&limit=collection-code%3ANF](https://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/search?q=organize&op=and&op=and&op=and&limit=collection-code%3ANF&sort%5Fby=&ref=lorcandempsey.net)  
A final note. They have RSS feeds for searches through opensearch and search strings are human hackable. They show the search syntax on top of searches: it would be interesting to know whether people are constructing more complex searches or whether people are embedding links in other environments.  
Here is the opensearch [search](https://a9.com/-/opensearch/search/B0007WF826/sarah%20jessica%20parker?count=10&startPage=1&ref=lorcandempsey.net) for Sarah Jessica Parker, a native of Nelsonville. You can subscribe in whatever environment you manage your feeds.