opac

An Online Public Access Catalog or OPAC is a computerized online catalog of the materials held in a library. The library staff and the public can usually access it at several computer terminals within the library, or from home via the Internet. Since the mid-1980s, it has replaced the card catalog in most libraries. Since the mid-1990s dedicated terminal based OPACs have been gradually replaced by Web based OPACs. The largest OPAC is the giant OCLC WorldCat database, which is a catalog of materials held at collaborating public and private libraries worldwide. WorldCat only shows whether a given item is owned by a library system. It does not break down information by branch library or show which copies are currently on loan to users. WorldCat users must connect to a library's own OPAC to see that information.

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