Document (#10668)

Author

Pountain, D.

Title

¬The British Library's catalog is on-line

Source

Byte. 20(1995) Nr.5, S.62-68

Year

199

Abstract

The British Library has computerized its paper catalogues into an OPAC. It uses personal computer clients running Windows. Explains reasons for this computerization, how the OPAC works, its architecture, which is built around the BRS/Search full text engine, and describes the software development

Theme

OPAC

Location

GB
London

Aid

BRS/Search

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