Fac-Back-OPAC.

The new Fac-Back-OPAC (a faceted backup OPAC) is built on code that was written earlier this year. It represents a convergence of two trends: decoupling discovery tools from the traditional ILS and using open source components to rapidly produce leading-edge technology to meet our needs. The authors...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Computers in Libraries Vol. 27; no. 9; pp. 6 - 12
Main Authors: Beccaria M, Scott D
Format: pictorial Journal Article
Published: Information Today Inc. Oct2007
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:The new Fac-Back-OPAC (a faceted backup OPAC) is built on code that was written earlier this year. It represents a convergence of two trends: decoupling discovery tools from the traditional ILS and using open source components to rapidly produce leading-edge technology to meet our needs. The authors call it 'one of the canonical examples of the next generation of OPACs coming to the market.'