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Extending the online catalog: The point of diminishing returns

Hildreth, Charles R.

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Title
Extending the online catalog: The point of diminishing returns
Author(s)
Hildreth, Charles R.
Issue Date
1994
Keyword(s)
  • Online public access catalog
  • Networked information
Abstract
"This paper discusses online public access catalog (OPAC) models and milestones. The journey of the networked online catalog has clearly departed from its early, first-generation manifestation as a stand-alone, local ""card catalog online"" and continues at an alarming pace in its evolution to some fuzzily conceived expanded, transformed entity we may humbly refer to for now as the library catalog information system. What this future information management and retrieval system will be like is not entirely clear, which makes it the topic of much speculation and wishful thinking. Its parameters and features may be decided by, nay, even driven by, new, emergent technologies, or, hopefully, its form and function will be guided by the knowledge attained from a vast body of research and experience with online catalogs and their users."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Emerging communities : integrating networked information into library services [papers presented the 1993 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 4-6, 1993]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1993: Emerging communities: integrating networked information into library services PRIMARY
30th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1993). Edited by Ann P. Bishop.