Enhanced OPACs
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Enhanced OPACs


Does your OPAC provide services or tools beyond the norm? If so Steven Cohen, at Library Stuff, want to hear about it. Once he has had a few replies it might be a good place to get ideas for improving your own OPAC.

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- Opac Replaced By Fish
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has an OPAC replacement, a FISH. FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. Using freely available tools has put together a system to replace the catalog. Seeing what he has done is fascinating and inspiring.With...

- Beyond The Opac
MP3 audio and PowerPoints are already available from the Beyond the OPAC : future directions for Web-based catalogues meeting. The presentations are:Beyond the OPAC : future directions for web-based catalogues by Martha YeeThe well connected catalogue...

- Subject Retrieval In Opac's
Schallier, Wouter (2005) Subject retrieval in OPAC's: a study of three interfaces. In Gascón, Jesús and Burguillos, Ferran and Pons, Amadeu, Eds. Proceedings La dimensión humana de la organización del conociemento / The human dimension of knowledge...

- The Opac And Oai
The winner of the OCLC software contest is Dazhi (David) Jiao of Bloomington Indiana for his OPAC.CAT-OAI integrates OAI harvesting and metadat searching to OPAC search engines and expands users' discoveries in a OPAC search results to related web-accesible...

- Classification Web
This announcement from CDS:You may have noticed recently the addition of a link for "Library of Congress OPAC (read-only)" on the Class Web OPAC page. This link was included for ALA Midwinter on an experimental basis and it connected to mirror version...



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