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New Age OPACs: Innovative Public Access Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Fri Dec 13 20:15:10 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:49:25 -0600
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_New Age OPACs: Innovative Public Access Systems_
After a hiatus of two (2) years, I will be reliving [:-)] one of my early Web obsessions devoted to innovative online public access catalogs. As many of you know, back in the late 1990s, I established a clearinghouse focused on Innovative Public Access Systems called Onion Patch(sm)
[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Onion.htm ]
Over the course of the next few months, I will be reviewing and updating Onion Patch(sm) and am interested in identifying and incorporating additional novel/ingenious OPACs that are not presently profiled.
I am also interested in any relevant articles, reports, papers, Websites, and other publications for inclusion in the associated bibliography.
As, Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries,
critiques, concerns, Cosmic Insights, or Resignations are Most Welcome!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Incorporated Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
"The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It"
Alan Kay
