Extending the access and reference service capabilities of the online public access catalog

Hildreth, Charles R.

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Title

Extending the access and reference service capabilities of the online public access catalog

Author(s)

Hildreth, Charles R.

Issue Date

1987

Keyword(s)

• Reference services (Libraries) --Automation
• Online bibliographic searching
• Database searching
• Libraries and electronic publishing
• Online public access catalog

Abstract

A close look at developments and opportunities as they existed in late 1985 led to the belief that we were at the threshold of a creative convergence of two separate movements. The advances in understanding the problems and needs of end user searching of IR systems seemed transferable to OPAC use, and some online catalogs, as they evolved, were beginning to incorporate the more sophisticated keyword and Boolean search methods common in the conventional IR systems. The transformation of the library catalog into a diverse, online information resource had begun. The promise was clear: OPACs could be better library catalogs than their predecessors, and OPACs could be both powerful and usable interactive retrieval systems. Today, we must recognize that much of this promise is being fulfilled. Existing second-generation OPACs with their MARC catalog record databases can be viewed from a functional perspective as special purpose online reference retrieval systems.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (24th : 1987)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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