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Library Automation

Notes A critical question here is whether cataloguing principles and rules need to be reconstructed
and developed on a basis parallel to the development of the environment in which they
are used.

7.6 Keywords

Browser: Browser, short for web browser, is a software application used to enable computers
users to locate and access web pages.
Card Catalogue: A card catalogue is an alphabetical file of subjects, authors and titles for material
that is acquired by a university library.
Database: A database is a collection of information organized to provide efficient retrieval.
Integrated Library System (ILS): An integrated library system (ILS), also known as a library
management system (LMS), is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track
items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.

Online Catalogues: Internet-based presentation of a set of items available for purchase, including
description, price, and ordering information.
Online Computer Library Centre: The Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC, formerly the
Ohio College Library Centre), established in 1971, has been considered to be a significant factor
in the development of automated catalogues.
Online Public Access Catalogue: An online public access catalogue (often abbreviated as OPAC
or simply library catalogue) is an online database of materials held by a library or group of
libraries.
Stagnation: Stage in an economic cycle in which little (1 per cent or less) or no growth or decline
occurs.
Standards: Universally or widely accepted, agreed upon, or established means of determining
what something should be.

Truncation: Truncation is a searching technique used in databases in which a word ending is
replaced by a symbol.
Webpages: A web page (or webpage) is a web document that is suitable for the World Wide Web
and the web browser.

7.7 Review Questions

1. What do you understand by Online Public Access Catalogue?
2. Why OPAC is considered as more useful than the traditional card formats?
3. Describe the history of Online Public Access Catalogue.
4. Discuss the developments and directions of online catalogues.

5. Explain the factors relating to the growing interest in online catalogues.
6. Elucidate the second-generation online catalogues.
7. Do you think that searching capabilities in the Windows version of OPACs are greater
than those found in other generations of online catalogues? If yes, give reasons.

8. Discuss the creation and manipulation of bibliographic records.
9. Write brief note on the construction and maintenance of the catalogue.
10. Describe searching, retrieval, and display of bibliographic records.

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