Saturday, April 27, 2013

OPAC: Online Public Access Catalog

  PowerPoint is another tool that is highly utilized by information specialists, patrons, and the public community.  Accessing the OPAC: Online Public Access Catalog is a quicker and valid way for users to actively apply four tasks that is in FRBR (Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records) conceptual model according to Lois M. Chan (2007) in Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction (p. 25).  The four user tasks are find what correspond to their search, identify an entity from a collection of retrieved data, select an entity that is appropriate to the needs, and obtain the entity described from a library shelf, through ILL (InterLibrary Loan) or access the full text online. 

Click here to download  my Powerpoint on an OPAC: A Library Catalog 
  Powerpoint-OPAC

Reference:
Chan, L. M. (2007).  Cataloging and classification: An introduction (3rd ed.).
        Lanham, MD:  The Scarecrow Press. Inc.

      



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