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The Library Link of the Day points to Adding Substance, Not Just Frills, to a Library's Online Catalog by Janet L. Balas in
Computers in LibrariesIntegrating enhanced content and electronic resources into the OPAC is a trend that librarians cannot afford to dismiss. However, it is not enough to just add content or resources without determining if they actually provide good service to the OPAC users. Some enhancements can be absolutely worthless.
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Opac 2.0
Chalon, Patrice X. and Di Pretoro, Emmanuel and Kohn, Laurence (2008) OPAC 2.0: Opportunities, development and analysis. In Proceedings 11th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki (Finland).Web 2.0 has raised new expectations from...
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D-lib Magazine
The May/June 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Some articles of interest include:PREMIS With a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata Brian F. Lavoie, OCLC Online Computer...
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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...
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Cataloging The Net. Part 2.
I posted a while ago about an idea to turn the RSS feed of Web directories into MARC records. K.G. Schneider of LII left a comment both here and on the original site. She makes some valid points and one I'm less sure about. She invites folks with...
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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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