Honours 4th Year Assignment on OPAC vs Automated Catalogue
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC): An online public access catalogue (often abbreviated as OPAC or simply library catalogue) is an online database of materials held by a library or a group of libraries. Early in 1960s there was existence of OPAC. The first large-scale OPAC were developed at Ohio State University in 1975 and the Dallas Public Library in 1978. Automated catalogue: An automated catalogue is customized catalogue of a library’s collection. Mainly it is of an automated library’s catalogue, or perhaps digital library’s. It is customized by using computer software. Library automation started growing with the influence of computer technologies since 1960s. the very first integratd library system was considered to be the “turnkey system on microcomputers” now it is some software that are used in ILS like ‘KOHA, Evergreen etc’. OPAC vs. automated catalogue: These two are closely related to each other but also have some dissimilarities . The differences between