OPAC functionality: Russian and foreign users’ requirements
Journal: Scientific and Technical Libraries
Year: 2020

The article considers the results of studying the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) functionality, revealed by specialists of domestic and foreign libraries. The user survey results showed that OPAC of foreign libraries provides a more developed search system than the OPAC of domestic libraries. While a foreign user is able to interact with a catalogue in a natural language, domestic library OPAC operate mostly in a query-response mode. The problems were revealed which the user encounters du