Week 3

Third week started with ma friend's birthday. I really enjoyed his birthday although It disturbed my study schedule a bit but I enjoyed overall. Lecturer taught us about Library catalogues. She told us that the information retrieval system circulates between Library Catalogue, data bases and internet.
She told us about Library catalogue that Library Catalogues are of two types :

• A Library Card Catalogue
• OPAC

OPAC: Online Public Access Catalogue

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 catalogue principally to locate books and other material physically located at a library  example if we want to log on to Aiu Library's OPAC then we should go to http://www.italic.aiu.edu.my and we can easliy visit the Aiu's OPAC main page then.

  She also taught us the advatages and benefits of using OPAC like the OPAC provides us with details about the books, audiovisuals, and other materials that can be found in our library. One good reason is that libraries throughout the world use a similar system. It is also easy to locate books and Library stuff by using OPAC.

WHAT WE CAN FIND IN OPAC :

• Record for all the book, audiovisual and periodicals
• Location of the items
• Availability
• overdue of item
• Format of resource

In the next class she taught how to login to italic and how we can take benefits from OPAC.
OPAC of some other Universties.