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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454619103321

Titolo

Guidelines for online public access catalogue (OPAC) displays [[electronic resource] ] : final report May 2005 / / recommended by the Task Force on Guidelines for OPAC displays ; approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mùˆnchen, : Saur, 2005

ISBN

1-283-40349-8

9786613403490

3-598-44031-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (64 p.)

Collana

IFLA series on bibliographic control ; ; 27

Altri autori (Persone)

Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Cataloguing

Disciplina

025.316

Soggetti

Online library catalogs

Library catalogs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PRINCIPLES -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- EXAMPLES -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. While many libraries already have OPACs, there is a need to bring together, in the form of guidelines or recommendations, a corpus of good practice to assist libraries in designing or re-designing the displays for their OPACs, taking into consideration the needs of users. The audience for these guidelines is librarians charged with customizing OPAC software and vendors and producers of this software. The guidelines are mainly designed