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Management Systems of User Interfaces Functionalities in Latin: American Web OPACs
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Author(s): Elsa Barber (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Silvia Pisano (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Sandra Romagnoli (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Verónica Parsiale (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Gabriela de Pedro (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Carolina Gregui (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)and Nancy Blanco (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 19
Source title:
Systems Science and Collaborative Information Systems: Theories, Practices and New Research
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Emilia Currás (Autonomous University Madrid, Spain)and Nuria Lloret Romero (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-201-3.ch010
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Abstract
Taking into account the fundamental role of online public access catalogs in the dissemination of scientific and technical information, it was considered relevant to look into the situation of user interfaces of OPACs Web of university, special, public and national libraries in Latin America. A quantitative methodology has been adopted and a checklist of system functions (Hildreth, 1982) updated was used as data collection tool. A sample of 846 OPACs was obtained from predefined search queries and classified according to type of software, type of library and country. A subset of 374 units was selected of those whose system presented a frequency of appearance = 10. The percentage of presence of functionalities in each area was calculated and functionalities were compared according to type of software by test of independence. It was then possible to typify the interfaces of the analyzed OPACs according to the selected types of software and in relation to their category.
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