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Unit 1: Library Automation: An Overview

Searching OPAC: Searching the OPAC is very easy. First the user selects the document, Notes
which may be a book or a journal or multimedia from the “Document” field. Book is the
default document.
The field name can be changed as Acc_No, Call_No, Autor, Title, Subject, Series etc. Then the
user has to put the keywords in to the “Look For” box which may be author, title, subject, series,
imprint, year, edition, accession number, call number, etc. If the search is by author the fieldname
may be changed in to Author and if it is by title, change it to “Title”, for example, if we are
looking for books written by Agatha Christie, just type Christe, Agatha in the “Look For” box
and click “SEARCH”. The field name is “All”, means every document which contains the term
“Christie, Agatha” in any field will appear.

English names are written as surname first whereas Indic names are written as it is.
An option of “Boolean Search” is also given for in-depth search.

By clicking “DETAILED VIEW”, we get the detailed information of the document.

The circulation details of the document are also given.

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