By

Dheeraj Singh Negidheerajnegi3@gmail.com

Web OPAC: A case study of International Management Institute Bhubaneswar Library

PPT Outline

Introduction IMIB library

Introduction WEB-OPAC

Advantage of WEB-OPAC

Analysis Books Searching by library users

Finding Web OPAC use by IMIB library Users

Why search Web OPAC

Conclusion

Introduction IMIB Library

• IMI Bhubaneswar library is located in a spacious and centrally air conditioned building over two floors spread over 6000 sq. feet.

• The Information Centre aims to support the diverse information needs of all our students, faculty, researchers and staff through the provision of the ultra modern information resources and services.

• The library provides access to relevant digital resources, covering not only all aspects of business and management, but also related areas such as sociology, computer science, economics, accounting, finance, behavioural sciences and information technology etc.

• The large numbers of periodical titles subscribed by the library are a vital source for academic research and most journals are available electronically.

• The Library and Information Service at IMI Bhubaneswar, offers access to a wide range of both printed and electronic sources with greater emphasis on electronic delivery of information to users.

Online Public Access Catalogue

• An Online Public Access Catalogue (often abbreviated as OPAC or simply Library Catalogue) is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. It is a computerized library catalogue available to the public. Most OPACs are accessible over the Internet to users all over the world. Users search a library catalogue principally to locate books and other material physically located at a library

• Why use a catalogue instead of just browsing the shelves of the library to find a book?

• Books that contain information on a particular topic may be shelved in several different areas of

• the library, in special collections, or even in different libraries altogether.

• Books are shelved in the library by call number order (a unique number for each book), so you would have to be very familiar with the either the Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress Classification System to find the small area devoted to your topic.

• The patrons in the library can search the bibliographic database and find specific information online. The

• search facility also apprises the user about the availability of each item for circulation, including current

• status of individual copies of a title and reserve status. It also shows titles on order displaying current

• status in acquisition. The scope of these services include:

GENERAL FEATURES

An OPAC is designed to give the user bibliographic details of holdings in the collection of a particular library. Many OPACs also let the user search the OPACs of a number of other libraries simultaneously, using the Z39.50 protocol. Z39.50 is an international standard for communication between computer systems, primarily library- and information-related systems. Not all LMS suppliers may provide the full features of a portal, but they generally offer the features found in traditional OPACs, federated searching tools and user services such as renewals and interlibrary loan (ILL) requests. In addition, the portal may include other facilities for users who also want to carry out transactions, such as changing their address details, paying fines or cancelling reservations through the library's web.

Slide Title• Online Catalogues: The following catalogues are available online:• Title Catalogue• Author Catalogue• Subject Catalogue• Classified Catalogue• Publisher• Place of Publication• Boolean Searches: The boolean searches can be made on words from

any of the bibliographic fields. The • use of the logical connectors 'OR', 'AND' and 'AND NOT' is allowed.

The search is facilitated by using:• • Truncation• • Use of parentheses• • Proximity connectors (same as provided by 'DIALOG')

OPAC in IMIB is accessible with homepage

ADVANTAGES OF WEB OPAC

1. Users can immediately notice the missing reprints by author search.2. Updating can be done quickly as Users take keen interest to submit the reprints.3. It is accessible all the time, worldwide.4. Increases awareness of 'Scientific Research Contributions' made by the Institute.5. It is possible for users to send reprint requests immediately by e-mail.6. Compilation of various lists of reprints becomes very easy.

Frequency by Library users

OPAC Search

Students (%) Faculty(%) Staff (%) Other (%)

Title 55% 55% 55% 55%

Author 21% 21% 21% 21%

Publisher 9% 9% 9% 9%

Book No/ Acc No.

8% 8% 8% 8%

Etc 7% 7% 7% 7%

Total 100% 100% 100% 100%

Books Searching

Title 55%

Author 21%

Publisher 9%

Book No 8%

Etc 7%

Books Searching

Web OPAC use by IMIB library Users

PGDM 2013-1532%

PGDM 2014-1625%

PGDM (WE)11%

Faculty 25%

Other 8%

Why search Web OPAC

Searching of Books Location

59%

Find the Detail of books

23%

User Needs

10%

Availablity 9%

Conclusion IMIB library and Resource centre is a dynamic

Management information centre in India . There are many library sources using by students and faculty member. Above study a Finding that 100 % students, faculty , other using web Opac his/her work. Mostly Users use the web Opac for books location searching .

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