OPAC
Edit Watch this page Read in another language Online public access catalog Page issues An online public access catalog (often abbreviated as OPAC or simply library catalog ) is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Users search a library catalog principally to locate books and other material available at a library. In simple language it is an electronic version of the card catalog . OPAC is the gateway to library's collection. History Edit Early online catalogs Edit Screenshot of a Dynix menu. First introduced in 1983, Dynix was one of the first and most popular commercial library automation systems ever released, enjoying nearly twenty years of dominance in libraries worldwide. Although a handful of experimental systems existed as early as the 1960s, the first large-scale online catalogs were developed at Ohio State University in 1975 and the Dallas Public Library in 1978. [1] The