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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1988
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED305091 |
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- Extending the OPAC: Creative Uses of Microcomputers To Enhance Library Services. Freivalds, Dace I. Carson, Sylvia Academic Libraries Database Management Systems Higher Education Information Sources Library Automation Library Services Microcomputers Online Catalogs User Needs (Information) This report describes an online public access catalog (OPAC) developed at Pennsylvania State University which downloads, manages, and manipulates data once it has been retrieved. The paper begins with a list of the 12 features of the system, which is called MicroLIAS (Library Information Access System): (1) build and fully index any number of local databases; (2) access local databases and LIAS using the same body of searching skills; (3) download records from the LIAS online public access catalog into local databases; (4) input/edit records using formatted work screens and a full screen editor; (5) build variable length records with variable length fields; (6) use USMARC tags and subfields or named field tags; (7) select from multiple displays for individual records; (8) customize indexing for each database; (9) use system-supplied and user-defined function keys; (10) interface with word processing software; (11) configure software to suit individual needs; and (12) produce customized bibliographies and book catalogs. Descriptions and examples are then provided of current MicroLIAS applications in the library's technical services (gifts control, labelling, snags control); public services (new books listing, subject bibliographies, videocassette catalog); and computing services (tracking work-in-progress, inventory control, tracing terminal problems). Also presented is a list of possible future areas of application of the system. It is suggested that the design of MicroLIAS, which treats the OPAC as a source of information rather than as an end in itself, is an important concept that should be seriously considered in the further development of online catalogs. (CGD)