library catalogs and library events: the SOPAC dream made reality

The InfoBlog has a nice concise post by Paul Signorelli about social library catalogs (SOPACs): Web 2.0 Best Practices: When Author Events Lead to Library Collections.  He links to a few of the libraries doing amazing things with their catalogs and uses the example of the connections between library events and the catalog to explain the concept.  If you're new to the idea of socializing (perhaps that isn't the right word) your library catalog, or you know people who are, then this article is a good introduction to the idea.