Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs)

• Description
  • Electronic, net accessible library card catalogs
  • Allows bibliography building
  • Facilitates interlibrary loans (electronic requests)
  • Provides online help
• Searches
  • Subject, Author, Title
  • Nonstandard pseudo-stack browsing
• Essential OPAC(s)
  • OPACs reflect library collections
  • An OPAC list is the Dr. Art St. George

OPAC Access

• Web Access
  WWW carad catalog interface.
• Telnet to library OPAC server
  Example: Telnet to Cambridge Univ. Library
• Standard OPAC client software
  • HyTelnet
    • HYTELNET
    • Example UNIX Session
    • HYTELNET thru Mosaic
  • Eureka
    Sample Eureka Session
  • Library of Congress
    Sample LOCIS Session

Author: N. Dwight Barnette
Curator: Computer Science Dept : VA TECH. © Copyright 1994-2000.
Last Updated: 6/5/2000