Revitalizing the library OPAC: interface, searching, and display challenges.
The behavior of academic library users has drastically changed in recent years. Internet search engines have become the preferred tool over the library online public access catalog (OPAC) for finding information. Libraries are losing ground to online search engines. In this paper, two aspects of OPA...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 5 - 23 |
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| Formato: | pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Mar2008
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