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What is opac search

OPAC: full name Online Public Access Catalogue, in librarianship is called "online public **** catalog query system". Readers can use the World Wide Web to find and borrow books. Extended information

The early 1970s in the United States in the university and public **** library, its meaning is the traditional readers of the catalog query 'automation, is a kind of network query collection of information resources online retrieval system, the user can not be restricted by space and location, query the library's OPAC resources.

Notes on the use of OPAC

1. Readers can query books, periodicals, e-books, audio-visual materials, and featured resources in the collections of multiple libraries. Select the appropriate search path, you can also limit multiple conditions at the same time to narrow the query.

2, in the choice of book titles, authors, keywords search path, enter the search term after the system to take any word matching mode.

3, such as readers have a special query books, it is recommended to start to limit the scope to save time. Retrieve the attention of the designated library, do not choose to find for all.