Literature

Awareness and Use of Online Public Access Catalogue by Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

OPAC, “traditional accessibility to resources of libraries”, according to the author “It is an interface of information retrieval system which assist information searchers to access resources of libraries using several access points”. According to studies, “information searchers tend to use easily available information sources rather than sources that require considerable efforts” (Fabunmi & Asubiojo, 2013)

Dynamic Map display in Web OPAC: An Experiment at Wichita State University Libraries

Giving more attribute to the web OPAC or making Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS) acceptable for web services has been prone year lately. By showing of dynamic map(s) for each one file in the web OPAC, bibliographic information are enhanced. Providing dynamic locations in their OPAC. The attribute shows specific locations and shelf maps of the library stacks for each books. In the main library, different classification schemes are in use, some are LC, SUDOC, and accession numbering. Moving ISBN, bibliographic ID field were moved to a processing routine having connection on ILMS tables. The routine will query the ILMS tables, and export the call number, title, and author displaying dynamic map in the webpage (Li, Deng, & Deyoe, 2007).

A STUDY OF WEB-BASED OPACs SERVICES IN INDIA

Web OPAC are library catalog on the Web or Internet. It is a Web OPAC that is connected by the use of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) the user can search required information anytime, and everywhere. It is a programmed that is designed only for the library program, it ease the borrowing process instead of finding the information of the book on the card catalog. The members can also request for the information about borrowing, reserving, etc., related to their library profile, and also to make an automatic reservation. The users can enter one or more keywords and these can...