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 ...