Whoohoo! I was quite excited to stumble upon the news that the CARLI consortium here in Illinois is trying out the VuFind software as a new front end for its Ex Libris Voyager catalog. I had no idea they were doing this; I knew (thanks to one of my students) that they were also trialling WorldCat Local, but I didn’t realize they were also looking at VuFind.

Some initial thoughts: I am especially pleased that a major consortium with some really big library collections is looking closely at an open source solution. I like what I see so far in some of the searches that I’ve done in the system: the ability to tag, cite, utilize the Google Book Search API, add to favorites, etc. OpenURL linking is built in as well.