--- /dev/null
+diff --git a/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/WWW/EGCatLoader.pm b/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/WWW/EGCatLoader.pm
+index 6aa1f58..08074e1 100644
+--- a/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/WWW/EGCatLoader.pm
++++ b/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/WWW/EGCatLoader.pm
+@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use OpenILS::Utils::Fieldmapper;
+ use DateTime::Format::ISO8601;
+ use CGI qw(:all -utf8);
+ use Time::HiRes;
++use Net::HTTP::NB;
+
+ # EGCatLoader sub-modules
+ use OpenILS::WWW::EGCatLoader::Util;
+@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ sub load {
+ (undef, $self->ctx->{mylist}) = $self->fetch_mylist unless
+ $path =~ /opac\/my(opac\/lists|list)/;
+
+- return $self->load_simple("home") if $path =~ m|opac/home|;
++ return $self->load_home("home") if $path =~ m|opac/home|;
+ return $self->load_simple("css") if $path =~ m|opac/css|;
+ return $self->load_simple("advanced") if
+ $path =~ m:opac/(advanced|numeric|expert):;
+@@ -250,6 +251,42 @@ sub load_simple {
+ return Apache2::Const::OK;
+ }
+
++sub load_home {
++ my ($self, $page) = @_;
++ $self->ctx->{page} = $page;
++ $self->ctx->{search_ou} = $self->_get_search_lib();
++
++ my $req = Net::HTTP::NB->new(
++ Host => '127.0.0.1', Timeout => 1, PeerPort => 80);
++ if (!$req) {
++ $logger->warn("Unable to connect look up bookbag");
++ } else {
++ $req->host($self->apache->hostname);
++ $req->write_request(GET => "/opac/extras/feed/bookbag/marcxml/12");
++ my $sel = IO::Select->new($req);
++ if ($sel->can_read(3)) {
++ my ($code) = $req->read_response_headers;
++
++ my $content = '';
++ if ($code eq '200') {
++ while (1) {
++ my $buf;
++ my $n = $req->read_entity_body($buf, 1024);
++ last unless $n;
++ $content .= $buf;
++ }
++ $self->ctx->{carousel} = [];
++ while ($content =~ m!(<record xmlns.*?</record>)!gs) {
++ push @{ $self->ctx->{carousel} }, (new XML::LibXML)->parse_string($1);
++ }
++ }
++ }
++ $req->shutdown(2);
++ }
++
++ return Apache2::Const::OK;
++}
++
+ # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ # Tests to see if the user is authenticated and sets some common context values
+ # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------