IFLA Series on
Bibliographic Control
Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control Vol. 27.
Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. Many libraries already have OPACs and many of them have a need for guidelines that help them to design or redesign the displays for their OPACs, taking their users' needs into account. This book provides such guidelines, recommendations and a corpus of good practice to assist libraries in this process.
The audience for these guidelines is librarians charged with customising 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 socila sciences, and the pure and applied sciences. They are intended to apply to any type of catalogue, independently of the kind of interface and technology used.
This is the Final Report of a Task Force on the matter, which was approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section.
IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays.
Final Report May 2005
München: Saur, 2005, 61 p.
ISBN 3-598-24276-X
(IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control; vol. 27).
Price: EUR 34 (IFLA Members EUR 26,80)
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