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System design and cataloging meet the user: User interfaces to online public access catalogs [PDF]
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991 Current research on user interfaces to online public access catalogs is reviewed in an attempt to identify research methods and findings applicable to the design of effective user interfaces to online public access catalogs. A broad definition of user interface is employed which includes data structures, in addition to searching and indexing software ...
M. M. Yee
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Knowledge Organization Affordances in a Faceted Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2021 Faceted navigation is already a standard feature of contemporary Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs). The article aims to indicate practices in this area and new affordances that faceted navigation provides. The content of 55 Polish university library websites and their OPACs using faceted navigation was analyzed.
Marek Nahotko
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Detecting and supporting known item queries in online public access catalogs [PDF]
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2005 When users seek to find specific resources in a digital library, they often use the library catalog to locate them. These catalog queries are defined as known item queries. As known item queries search for specific resources, it is important to manage them differently from other search types, such as area searches.
Min-Yen Kan, Danny C. C. Poo
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Online Public Access Catalogs and Serials
The Serials Librarian, 1987 Online public access catalogs (OPACS) enable the user to search a library's holdings in ways never before possible and to know the status of the desired items before going to the shelf. Serials constitute an important part of a library's collection. Holdings information is a necessary adjunct to bibliographic information.
B. Landesman
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Los catalogos en linea de acceso publico en las bibliotecas argentinas con colecciones juridicas
Encontros Bibli, 2006 Se analizan las interfaces de usuario de los catálogos en línea de acceso público (OPACs) en entorno web de las bibliotecas argentinas con colecciones jurídicas, a fin de elaborar un diagnóstico de situación sobre la descripción bibliográfica, el ...
Elsa Barber +5 more
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The distribution of information: the role for online public access catalogs*
Information Services & Use, 1994 The author presents the environment of the Online Public Access Catalog as a new revenue stream of high potential. He suggests that the Abstracting and Indexing community is neglecting this important source and suggests industry-wide adoption of open standards as a remedy.
J. Matthews
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Jurnal Pustaka Ilmiah, 2022 The quality of collections in the library is an important parameter in the assessment of a library. As an information provider unit, the library must be able to ensure that the library materials that are held and stored must be in accordance with the ...
Wildan Novia Rosydiana +1 more
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Using Search Engine Technology to Improve Library Catalogs [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter outlines how search engine technology can be used in online public access library catalogs (OPACs) to help improve users’ experiences, to identify users’ intentions, and to indicate how it can be applied in the library context, along with ...
Lewandowski, Dirk
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We present the first publicly released catalog of sources obtained from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). HETDEX is an integral field spectroscopic survey designed to measure the Hubble expansion parameter and angular diameter ...
Erin Mentuch Cooper +45 more
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FRBRization: A Method for Turning Online Public Findings Lists into Online Public Catalogs
Information Technology and Libraries, 2005 In this article, problems users are having searching for known works in current online public access catalogs (OPACs) are summarized. A better understanding of AACR2R/MARC 21 authority, bibliographic, and holdings records would allow us to implement the ...
Martha M. Yee
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