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Online Public Access Catalog

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(library)Online Public Access Catalog - (OPAC) A computerised system to catalogue and organise materials in a library (the kind that contains books). OPACs have replaced card-based catalogues in many libraries. An OPAC is available to library users (public access).
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Online public access catalog called WEBCAT provides 24 hours services.
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In the early 1980s, some libraries began to feature online public access catalogs (OPACs), allowing users to access the libraries'' catalog via computer.
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The University of California came out with a massive online public access catalog called MELVYL in 1981, which was about the time of the first library catalogs began containing entire catalogs made available on computers.
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