Experimental! (Only works in French Dewey catalog.)
In OPAC, you can activate an option that let you browse the catalogue category by category.
It relies on a specific table, browser, that is filled by a specific script. If you don't run this script, the table will be empty, and there won't be anything in the OPAC page (& the user will be redirected here)
The browser feature will build a browsable view of your catalogue. It will, for example, tell you that your catalogue contains : 1353 biblios about “Science” 5624 biblios about “Geography” 9835 biblios about “Spirituality”
then, when the user click on “geography” : 5624 biblios about Geography :
then when the user click on “Europe” : 5624 biblios about Geography :
…
The tags feature will show to the users the most used subjects in your catalogue. in a graphical view where the subject is more large when it is used more times.
run the script without parameters to see it's parameters. Note that, at the time of writing this page, the browser works only for french dewey catalogue. It has to be modified to work according to your structure. That's why it can be considered as experimental !
If you are a library that has a stable collection, the script can probably be run once every 3 months ! If you are a library that has a moving collection (like a public library), then you may find useful to run the script once a month, or once a week.
What you must understand is that :
Just go to the librarian interface, systempreferences, Opac Feature tab, and set OpacBrowser to 0 and/or OpacCloud to 0