Message-Id: <199609271141.GAA10032@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 06:35:48 -0500 From: John Boggs <mailto:jdboggs@PIPER.HAMLINE.EDU> Subject: Re: quick definitions of OPAC, WEBPAC for novice. To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
gene o'regon writes: > would appreciate short definitions of OPAC, WEBPAC for novice. thanks.
> gene
OPAC--Online Public Access Catalog, the computer terminal you sit at to search a library catalog. OPAC can refer to either the actual terminal in the library, or to the interface provided by the library but which you can access from anywhere.
WEBPAC--An interface which uses the World Wide Web protocol to act as an OPAC.
If you need a deeper definition, don't hesitate!
-- John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is Circulation Librarian & \ that it prevents us from sticking to Associate System Administrator \ the matter at hand. -Lewis Thomas Bush Memorial Library, Hamline University. mailto:jdboggs@piper.hamline.edu