...Melissa A. Hofmann; Sharon Q. Yang Purpose This paper aims to determine the current usage of next generation online public access catalogs (OPACs) and discovery tools in academic libraries in the USA and Canada. Design/methodology/approach Using the same random sample of 260 colleges...

... Electronic books Digital libraries OPACs “Computers and libraries are well suited” – so begins its preface. At some point in future they may become one. Thus technology literacy and computer skills are major assets for LIS professionals. This concise book caters to a mixed readership of both...

.... It is time for librarians individually and collectively to indicate what improvements they want to see in the “expanding OPAC”. As libraries and vendors begin to work on tomorrow’s systems, we must not lose sight of a basic element of human nature. Zipf’s “Principle of Least Effort” states that “Each...