@Stephen - Good point about the 'Browse by' options being in a natural flow. I've heard from others that the text 'Browse by' sets a better expectation for what's going to happen when those links are clicked, too. One tradeoff for putting those in the upper-right is that we'd have to move the translate widget, but it'd also make the header not take up so much vertical space. The metadata values will indeed be linked (I just didn't make them blue in the mockup).

@Emily - Great hearing feedback on the location of that navigation. It sounds as if people are in agreement that it's a good idea to have it and now it's more a matter of deciding where to put it.

@Noah - Good observation about the named-anchor links. 'Item Info' and the 'Comments' links would jump down to the corresponding parts of the page. That'll be even more valuable when there's a tall, narrow image; in that case, those sections might not be initially visible onscreen.

For pagination, we've got more exploring to do. We might use the Internet Archive bookreader and if so, the page would look something like this. Any suggestions for other tools are certainly welcome.

For full-text, we'll need more discussions & prototypes. One possibility would be to have the full text of the object presented in a new section below the item info section. It might be truncated by default but can be expanded with a [+]. That section could also have a button to pop-out the full text in a browser window that can be dragged to wherever makes it easiest for a user to see the text & the digitized page side by side.