What is a library OPAC?

D Wells - The Electronic Library, 2007 - emerald.com
… (OPAC) operations in the light of the philosophy of information, communication theory and
semiotics, and to revisit fundamental questions about the nature of library OPACs and the …

Web OPAC interfaces: an overview

B Ramesh Babu, A O'brien - The electronic library, 2000 - emerald.com
… (OPACs) began to appear in the late 1990s and many libraries are currently considering
implementation. As catalogues, they demonstrate advances on traditional OPACs… of Web OPAC

Optical properties of aerosols and clouds: The software package OPAC

M Hess, P Koepke, I Schult - Bulletin of the American …, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
The software package OPAC (Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds) is described. It
easily provides optical properties in the solar and terrestrial spectral range of atmospheric …

Revitalizing the library OPAC: interface, searching, and display challenges

J Mi, C Weng - Information technology and libraries, 2008 - ejournals.bc.edu
… of OPAC use are studied: (1) the current OPAC interface and searching capabilities, and (2)
the OPAC … is the current OPAC ineffective? What can libraries and librarians do to deliver an …

OPACs: a research review

A Large, J Beheshti - Library & information science research, 1997 - Elsevier
A large number of studies have investigated the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). This
article identifies and analyzes studies that have been published since 1990, excluding …

The growth of the OPAC literature

EN Efthimiadis - Journal of the American Society for Information …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs), despite their recent arrival in the library and
information science world, have had a great impact because they have to be designed for the …

In search of query patterns: A case study of a university OPAC

EP Lau, DHL Goh - Information processing & management, 2006 - Elsevier
… ) OPAC was conducted to identify query and search failure patterns with the goal of identifying
areas of improvement for the system. One semester’s worth of OPAC … the NTU OPAC and …

Children's information retrieval behavior: A case analysis of an OPAC

P Solomon - Journal of the American Society for information …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
This article reports research that explored children's information retrieval behavior using an
online public access catalog (OPAC) in an elementary school library. The study considers …

Implementation of the OPAC adaptive control strategy in a traffic signal network

NH Gartner, FJ Pooran… - ITSC 2001. 2001 IEEE …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of the OPAC algorithm and describes the implementation and field testing of OPAC within …
of the issues encountered during the integration of OPAC into the RTTRACS system. The …

The impact of web search engines on subject searching in OPAC

H Yu, M Young - Information technology and libraries, 2004 - ejournals.bc.edu
This paper analyzes the results of transaction logs at California State University, Los Angeles
(CSULA) and studies the effects of implementing a Web-based OPAC along with interface …