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| Article Name : | | | NETWORK-BASED LIBRARY INFORMATION SYSTEM & USER INTERFACE FOR OPAC | | Author Name : | | | Chalukya B.V. | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-542 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | User-friendliness of library information systems is an important consideration in the development of the digital library. This paper describes two experimental studies of library information system usability: Graphical User Interface (GUI) oriented OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) with a bookshelf-like browser named SOPAC, and a Collaboration Support System (CSS) and its application to a reference task. SOPAC uses a bookshelf metaphor where books are displayed and the image of each book is based on its size. SOPAC accesses the OPAC database of the university library of ULIS without any modification of that database. The CSS includes TV-phone, Shared Virtual Display, Image Tool, and White Board. An experiment applying it to a task teaching how to use a GUI-based OPAC via network is described. Both systems have been developed on a conventional workstation LAN (Ethernet, 10 Mbps). | | Keywords : | | - user-friendliness of library information system
- graphical user interface,
- collaboration support system
- reference work
- digital library
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