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N-1-1-020.20.1 Internet OPACs
by Billy Barron*, <BILLY@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
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.
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.
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.
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.
*VAX/Unix Systems Manager, University of North Texas