[Web4lib] re: How to label the OPAC

[Bernhard Eversberg]

David Walker schrieb:
> 
> But an OPAC is not a *complete* list of the library’s holdings.
Neither is any search engine a complete list of web contents. How do you 
explain what Google lists and what it doesn't? Aint't no easier than 
with the catalog...

> 
> If we want to insist on using the term “catalog” in libraries,  ...

At least, there are good explanations we might point to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_catalog
No talk there about the terms probable obsolescence.

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Bernhard Eversberg
UB Braunschweig
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