I’m thinking of a total revamp of library resource discovery tools. A simple user-facing interface querying one big “kitchen sink” index (or maybe several specific indexes - Title, Subject, Author, Keyword, Source?) in the background. The index(es) contain all all entries of every subscribed database (and someday the contents of all the various paper indicies, too, plz) plus the relevant ILS indexes.

I’m also thinking of a total revamp of the ILS. I’m thinking “minimal local info” and “maximize distributed info” i.e. the local database only holds the following info:
Various “control” numbers (ISSN/ISBN, OCLC, RLN, etc.)
Local “control” information (item barcode, Call number, location, extra local subject entries, anything else?)
and the rest of the item info comes from distributed standardized item info:
Title, Author, Subject, Description, Reviews, TOC, book jacket, etc. from various sources including Amazon, GBS, OCLC, other data vendors, etc.

Pie in the sky ideas and the sky’s the limit, right?

Do either of these sound like a product which already exists? The ILS redo sounds a little like LibraryThing for Libraries or maybe Worldcat Local on steroids to me.