OPAC issues

[Fernando Gómez]

Chew Chiat Naun wrote:

> It's quite likely you are already familiar with this document, but
> Martha Yee wrote a major paper on OPAC design a couple of years ago:
>
> http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/papers/098-131e.htm
>
> I remember seeing a much fuller version of the paper but cannot find it
> at the moment. There were also responses by other commentators, of which
> the following is one:
>
> http://dcsun1.comp.brad.ac.uk/~bopac2/htdocs/Guidelines_OPAC_Display.html

Thank you for your replay.

Yee's full paper hasn't been available at IFLA's website for a long time,
although I could download a copy a couple of years ago. (And I've just found
a copy here: http://ifla.inist.fr/ifla/VII/s13/guide/opac-d.pdf).
Responses to that paper are also welcome; I didn't know the one you mention.

Fattahi's PhD thesis, The Relevance of Cataloguing Principles to the Online
Environment: An Historical and Analytical Study
(http://wilma.silas.unsw.edu.au/students/RFATTAHI/thes1.htm), is also very
interesting material.

Regards.

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