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Volume 4, Issue 3
1 March 1986
Library Hi Tech Cover Image for Volume 4, Issue 3
Review Article| March 01 1986

Performance and Capacity of Centralized and Distributed Online Catalogs: Part 1 — Centralized Online Catalogs

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-166X
Print ISSN: 0737-8831
© MCB UP Limited
1986
Library Hi Tech (1986) 4 (3): 7–23.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047652

The design of an online public access catalog greatly affects the performance and capacity requirements of the computer system. The characteristics of traditional menu and command‐driven systems that most affect performance are explained.

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