OPAC%20(Online%20Public%20Access%20Catalog)%20-%20Advanced%20capabilities

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OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) - Advanced
capabilities

• searchable fields

• document representing elements
• which are not searchable fields

• connections between documents

• searching and browsing options

• options of sorting and viewing
• the search results

• interface friendliness

• integration of ex-catalog
• information resources

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functional arrangement and notation History
division
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getting retrieved documents according toa
printed list sorted by their functional notation
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hypotheses

• Intellectual retrieval of documents
• by browsing the OPAC will produce
• more relevant documents than
• their retrieval by browsing the shelf

• Intellectual retrieval of relevant documents
• by browsing the OPAC will take
• a shorter time than their intellectual
  retrieval
• by browsing the shelf

• Users of academic libraries already prefer
• OPAC browsing to shelf browsing,
• a tendency which will even increase
• in the future

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results

• The OPAC browsing averagely produced
• 3 times more relevant documents
• than the shelf browsing

• The OPAC browsing of relevant documents
• averagely took ½ the time consumed by
• the shelf browsing of relevant documents

• The preference of retrieving
• documents by OPAC browsing is increasing
• while the shelf browsing is decreasing