VINE: Volume 23 Issue 1

OPACs: an overview: Historical perspective

Having been around in one form or another for some years, decades almost, the term OPAC and the corresponding concept will be familiar to most librarians/information workers. The…

The Implementation of CLSI's CL‐CAT in Warwickshire

Jonathan Mantell, Judith Mason

In order to improve on the public access provided initially by their COM catalogue Warwickshire implemented CLSI's OPAC at the busiest fifteen branch libraries. In order to…

Oracle Libraries — Multimedia and Windows OPAC

Bob Banks

While the technology is available to provide access to multimedia information systems the necessary applications software lags behind. The article discusses the features and…

The Dynix PAC at Napier University of Edinburgh

Lynn Corrigan, Gordon Dunsire, Gill Hamilton, Peigi MacKillop

As well as the obvious application of access to the library's learning resources, Napier's OPAC is used to combat the problem of a three‐site university campus with no obvious…

The Subject Enhancement of OPAC Records and the Need for Multilingual Access

Providing effective subject access to OPACs is a major problem area and this article considers the relative merits of providing enhanced content indexing of document records with…

New Systems from Documedia

Documedia have invested considerable development time and effort in producing new systems designed to meet the demands of today's special and academic libraries. Incorporating the…

The Barcoding of Academic and Learned Journals

Simon Inger

The automatic recording and exchange of serials data will become increasingly simplified as more subscription agents, library system suppliers, libraries and publishers make use…