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- N-1-1-020.20.1 Internet OPACs, by Billy Barron*, <BILLY@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
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- For the first issue of the Internet Society newsletter, I thought
- would start with the Internet Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs),
- the most well known Library Science application of the Internet.
- OPACs primarily offer access to bibliographic information. Uses of
- this information range from InterLibrary Loan to Research to
- collection development.
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- Currently, the bulk of the OPACs on the Internet are in the English
- speaking countries. Hopefully, this will change in the near future.
- According to my sources, we should see a good number of libraries in
- Finland soon on the network.
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- The primary mailing list on OPACS is called PACS-L. It is housed on
- UHUPVM1.UH.EDU or UHUPVM1.BITNET. Subscriptions may be obtained by
- sending mail to LISTSERV on that node with "SUBSCRIBE PACS-L firstname
- lastname" as the body of the letter.
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- Many sources of information on accessing Internet OPACs are available
- via anonymous FTP. I try to maintain a fairly complete collection on
- FTP.UNT.EDU in the library directory. The guide of the most general
- use is my own which is in the filenames starting with LIBRARIES.
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- *VAX/Unix Systems Manager, University of North Texas
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