Virtual OPACs versus Union Database: Two Models of Union Catalogue Provision.

Cousins, Shirley

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ERIC Number: EJ588221

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Publication Date: 1999

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Virtual OPACs versus Union Database: Two Models of Union Catalogue Provision.

Cousins, Shirley

Electronic Library, v17 n2 p97-103 Apr 1999

Considers some of the major technical and organizational issues involved in virtual-catalog production, contrasting them with the traditional union catalog approach exemplified by COPAC, an online public-access catalog composed of academic libraries in the United Kingdom. Suggest a method of integrating these two models of the union catalog. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Catalogs, Library Research, Models, Online Catalogs, Standards, Union Catalogs

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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