IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays

Author: Task Force on Guidelines for OPAC Displays

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 3598440316

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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 for general libraries with collections of resources in the humanities, the social sciences, and the pure and applied sciences. The guidelines are intended to apply to any type of catalogue, independently of the kind of interface and technology used.

Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays

Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Task Force on Guidelines for OPAC Displays

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9783598242762

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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 for general libraries with collections of resources in the humanities, the social sciences, and the pure and applied sciences. The guidelines are intended to apply to any type of catalogue, independently of the kind of interface and technology used.

Improving Online Public Access Catalogs
Improving Online Public Access Catalogs

Author: Martha M. Yee

Publisher: ALA Editions

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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Technology is improving libraries and the services they offer -- but can your patrons find what they need on your library's OPAC? In this practical guide for librarians and systems designers, the authors describe various OPAC options and explain how users interface with them to obtain information.

Designing Public Access Systems
Designing Public Access Systems

Author: J. E. Rowley

Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This book applies the principles of Human-Computer Interaction to the design of public access systems, guiding you step-by-step to ensure that the interface between the user, the system and the database really works. Focusing on the needs of the wide variety of public rather than office users, the authors explain how to evaluate the interface design, give checklists for guidance, and appraise users and user environments, search strategies and interaction styles. Real-life examples show why successful systems have worked well and how pitfalls can be avoided.

Readings in Information Retrieval
Readings in Information Retrieval

Author: Karen Sparck Jones

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 9781558604544

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This compilation of original papers on information retrieval presents an overview, covering both general theory and specific methods, of the development and current status of information retrieval systems. Each chapter contains several papers carefully chosen to represent substantive research work that has been carried out in that area, each is preceded by an introductory overview and followed by supported references for further reading.

Designing and Developing Library Intranets
Designing and Developing Library Intranets

Author: Nina McHale

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 113574100X

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For the past decade, e-mail has been the preferred method of internal communication in libraries. However, relying on email for organizational knowledge management seems a bit like storing birth certificates, car titles, and deeds in a pile of junk mail: the important documents are lost amongst other items of only minimal or fleeting importance. A successful intranet can provide a secure place for information exchange and storage; however, in order to be successful, a library intranet must be easy to use, have the functionality desired by its users, and be integrated into the daily workflows of all library staff. Accomplishing this can be challenging for web librarians. The book covers, among other topics, third-party hosting; the use of freely available blog and wiki software for internal staff communication; and developing library intranets in ColdFusion, Microsoft SharePoint, and the open source Drupal content management system (CMS). More importantly, the authors examine in detail the human factors, which, when not thoroughly addressed, are more often the cause for a failed intranet than the technology platform. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Web Librarianship.