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Re: dominant OPAC vendor?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sloan, Bernie)
Thu Jul 15 20:02:19 2004
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To answer Nick's first question, Library Journal's annual "automated systems
marketplace" feature is a good source of information on vendors and their
share of the market.
The 2004 version is available online:
http://tinyurl.com/3vtcl
Bernie Sloan
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From: Tomaiuolo, Nicholas (Library) [mailto:TomaiuoloN@MAIL.CCSU.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:02 PM
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Subject: dominant OPAC vendor?
I have two questions.
1) does anyone have sufficient experience or perspective to comment on
whether there is a "dominant OPAC vendor" that is, one that is found at
a majority of libraries?
2) In light of the advent of the Yahoo-Google partnership with WorldCat
to heighten the public's awareness of library holdings, does anyone know
of consortia or OPACs that search across a significant number of
libraries to show "live" holdings? (e.g., what's really available as
opposed to simply owning the title.)
Thank you for any responses or discussions.
Best regards,
Nick.
Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, MLS
Associate Librarian
Elihu Burritt Library
Central Connecticut State University
office 860-832-2068
fax 860-832-3409
