OPAC

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OPAC
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Introduction

• OPAC Online Public Access Catalogue
• tell you what is available in the Library, where
  to find it, and whether it is on loan or not.
• If all copies are on loan you can reserve it
  online.
• The entire stock of the Library is on the
  catalogue - books, journals, music scores, Media
  Resources equipment, videos, sound recording and
  dissertations.

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• OPAC also contains information about borrower
  loans, reservations and outstanding fines.
• Search can be done in several ways
• Author
• Title
• Keyword
• ISBN

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• OPAC is self-teaching because relevant
  instructions appear at the bottom left of each
  screen to guide you through the stages of a
  search.
• Advanced users may like to try limiting their
  searches Search can be limited by date, language,
  format or opus for music. Using this you could,
  for example, search ONLY for videos on a
  particular subject.
• If the book you need is on OPAC but is already on
  loan, you can reserve it yourself online
  IMMEDIATELY.

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Bibliographic System
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Introduction

• A bibliographic system is employed for the
  storage and retrieval of information about
  publications that might include references to
• Papers
• Journals or Articles
• Books or Chapters
• Manuscripts

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• It can be thought of as a replacement for a
  manual card index system and is useful both as a
  source of reference and as a tool for the
  production of bibliographies that might appear in
  published material.
• Many bibliographic systems allow several
  different types of record to be stored within the
  same file.
• For example a record for storing references to
  papers might have fields Author, Title, Journal,
  Volume, Year, Pages and Keywords, whilst that for
  a chapter of a book might have the fields Author,
  Chapter Title, Book Title, Editors, Page Numbers,
  Year and Keywords.
• Retrieval can then be restricted to records of a
  particular class or alternatively the entire
  collection can be searched over common fields
  such as Author and Keywords in the example above.

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• A good bibliographic system should enable data to
  be easily imported from a variety of sources and
  output in a variety of formats. For example it
  should be possible to
• Import information extracted from other systems,
  national on-line databases, or from ordinary text
  files.
• Inter-work with Word Processing packages
  enabling the production of a paper with citations
  and a bibliography formatted accordingly

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Example of Bibliography

• Ismail, M.A. Ravana, S.D. (2003). Online
  Examination System An overview. Regional
  Conference on Integrating Technology in the
  Mathematical Sciences 2003, April 14 15 2003,
  Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang.
• Abdullah, Abrizah, Ismail. M.A Idris. N .
  (2003). ICT-LitPro A community-based initiative
  on implementing a national curriculum on
  Information Communication Technologies Literacy,
  International Conference on E-Learning 2003,
  July 14 18 2003, London.
• Ismail, M.A. Tan, Y.Y. (2003). Integrated
  Online Examination System. International
  Symposium on E-Learning 2003, October 20 21
  2003, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu,
  Sabah.
• Abdullah, Abrizah, Ismail. M.A Idris. N .
  (2003). ICT-LitPro A community-based initiative
  on implementing a national curriculum on
  Information Communication Technologies Literacy,
  International Journal of Learning, Volume 10.