On-line Search Facilities for Readers

SLIM OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalogue) offers powerful on-line search facilities to search through library catalogues:

Author	Keyword	Subject class
Title	Publisher	Place of publication
Main entry	Material type	Place of conference
Subject name	ISBN / ISSN	Year of conference
Series Titles	Serials Title	Year of publication

The repository of words, names, titles, keywords, etc. is available for on-line browsing while the search phrase is being entered. This displays alternate spellings; words derived from same root, etc. and thus helps the searcher by providing a view of the data. In addition to these conventional searching methods, OPAC indexes every word in the description of the item. Thus, to conduct a search one need not be aware of the cataloguing style of the library.

 

Optional formats are available to display information such as:

• Abstract of the item

• Keywords for the item

• Number of copies

• Bound volumes of a journal

• Loose issues of a journal

• Inventory status such as lost / missing /withdrawn

An interactive query builder with:

• Boolean operators such as and, or, not

• Wild card matching

• Proximity and adjacency operators

• Set formation and combination operators

• A query result can be presented as a neatly formatted bibliography in multiple sorting orders.