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2. Online public access catalog - Wikipedia

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   Online public access catalog. The online public access catalog ( OPAC ), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously used in libraries.

3. Open Library - Wikipedia

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   Open Library. Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [ 3][ 4] Brewster Kahle, [ 5] Alexis Rossi, [ 6] Anand Chitipothu, [ 6] and Rebecca Malamud, [ 6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.

4. Public Information Network for Electronic Services - Wikipedia

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   In 1998 a white paper was created exploring the feasibility of a statewide public library card for Georgia. As Georgia had consistently ranked among the lowest states in public library funding per capita it was agreed that a universal library card could be of great benefit to the residents of Georgia as long as the affiliated libraries were unified under one single integrated library system (ILS).

5. Library catalog - Wikipedia

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   The card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations, but it has been effectively replaced by the online public access catalog (OPAC). Some still refer to the online catalog as a "card catalog". [2] Some libraries with OPAC access still have card catalogs on site, but these are now strictly a secondary resource and are seldom ...

6. Google Books - Wikipedia

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   Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [ 1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [ 2]

7. Discovery system (bibliographic search) - Wikipedia

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   A discovery system is a bibliographic search system based on search engine technology. It is part of the concept of Library 2.0 and is intended to supplement or even replace the existing OPAC catalogs. These systems emerged in the late 2000s in response to user desire for a more convenient search option similar to that of internet search engine ...

8. WorldCat - Wikipedia

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   WorldCat. WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries ), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. [ 3] It is operated by OCLC, Inc. [ 4] Many of the OCLC member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest ...

9. Online Books Page - Wikipedia

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   The Online Books Page lists over 2 million books [3] and has several features, such as A Celebration of Women Writers and Banned Books Online. The Online Books Page was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. It first appeared on the Web in the summer of 1993 ...