Italian OPACs: a tool to retrieve documents in Italian libraries

Barazia, Caterina and Rossi, Paola (2007) Italian OPACs: a tool to retrieve documents in Italian libraries. ISGL Bulletin: The annual newsletter of the Italian Studies Library Group(6):pp. 24-29.

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Abstract

An introduction of Italian OPACs, a section of AIB-WEB (the website of Italian Library Association) which contains the Directory of Italian OPACs <www.aib.it/aib/lis/opac1-e.htm>.
The directory provides an inventory of all online catalogues present in the Italian territory and neighbouring Italian-speaking areas. All the OPACs are catalogued in a database and many of them are connected by the Azalai software, in order to allow their simultaneous search through MAI, the MetaOPAC Azalai italiano <www.aib.it/aib/opac/mai2.htm3>.

Keywords:	Italian OPACs, OPAC italiani, MetaOPAC, MAI, Azalai, MetaOPAC Azalai italiano, AIB-WEB.
Subjects:	H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HM. OPACs. L. Information technology and library technology. > LR. OPAC systems.
ID Code:	11459
Deposited By:	Barazia, Caterina
Deposited On:	24 September 2007
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Bibliography on OPACs <www.aib.it/aib/opac/op1bib.htm>: some texts on OPACs, metaOPACs, virtual libraries and related directories (in particular: Il repertorio degli OPAC italiani e il MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano = Italian OPAC directory and Italian Azalai MetaOPAC; MetaOPAC specializzati derivati dal MAI = Special metaOPACs derived from MAI; Il software Azalai per la realizzazione di metaOPAC = The Azalai software for construction of metaOPACs).

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