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Publication date: 1 January 1989

Dirk W. Fokker

Online public access catalogues (OPACs) are an outcome of library computerisation and online information retrieval systems. With the computerised search system provided by the…

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Online public access catalogues (OPACs) are an outcome of library computerisation and online information retrieval systems. With the computerised search system provided by the library, users can access the catalogue on their own from a terminal allocated for public use. However, a large variety of these systems are available. Requirements which enhance user‐friendliness and ease of use are discussed. These requirements have been collected from the literature as well as practical experience with an inhouse designed Opac. The requirements indicate that users and their needs regarding the catalogue should play a more prominent role in the design or choice of an Opac in a specific library.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 7 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 December 2003

Jim Agee and Patricia Antrim

Although libraries provide quiet and well‐equipped places for students to seek and use information, the trend librarians are seeing is a decline in the number of people coming to…

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Although libraries provide quiet and well‐equipped places for students to seek and use information, the trend librarians are seeing is a decline in the number of people coming to the library. In contrast, they are seeing a dramatic increase in the use of remotely accessed research databases. From these two trends emerges the concept of disintermediation, where library users seek and retrieve information without the assistance of the librarian, and the realization that librarians are no longer present when users need help in developing successful search strategies and evaluating the information they find. Librarians are not present at that teachable moment. To overcome the effects of disintermediation, librarians need to evaluate their services and recreate their instructional strategies in innovative ways so that they are available to the users of information wherever those users are.

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New Library World, vol. 104 no. 11/12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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