null.page.titleprefix Next Generation of Catalogues : Comparative study of Five Indian Universities OPACs
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2014-02
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Two-day National Conference on Social Media and Libraries
Abstract
Libraries worldwide have started rethinking and reworking their catalogs in order to increase
the attractiveness and efficiency of their core information product – the OPAC. The Next
Generation OPAC or generally termed as OPAC 2.0 offers improved searching experiences. In
this paper, the OPAC functionalities are compared across the criteria framed in line with the
expectations in Next Generation OPAC in three software types – commercial, open source
and free. Further, the paper attempted to address the narrow objective to understand where
our Indian university OPAC stands when analyzed / evaluated against the essential criteria of
a Next Generation OPAC (NGO).
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Next Generation of Catalogues, Comparative study