[Web4lib] Re: next generation opac mailing list

[Turner,Kathleen]

[Laughing]

Can't tell you how much arguing it took to convince folks here that we
could drop "online" from the link to our library catalog!  But equally
funny is the number of college students who will ask how to get to our
"card catalog". 


Kathleen H. Turner
Web/Education Librarian
W.W. Hagerty Library
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875

Tel: 215.895.6783
Fax: 215.895.2070
Khturner at drexel.edu

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mike McDermott
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:41 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Re: next generation opac mailing list

Greetings All -

I'm wondering if "Next Generation OPAC" might not be a contradiction of
terms - The very name OPAC is so 'first generation.' Look at it from
today's standpoint (as opposed to that of twenty years ago): Online?
What else would it be? Public access? Duh...

:-)

Mike

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Mike McDermott                     mmcderm2 at bowdoin.edu
Bowdoin College Library
3000 College Station               phone: (207) 725-3856
Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421        fax:(207) 725-3083
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