This document discusses a case study of the International Management Institute Bhubaneswar (IMIB) library's implementation of a Web OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog). It provides details on the IMIB library's collections and services. Usage statistics show that the majority of students, faculty, and staff use the Web OPAC to search for books by title. The Web OPAC allows users to easily find information on books and their availability, locations, and details from anywhere via the internet. It has increased awareness of the library's resources and made searching and accessing information more convenient for IMIB library patrons.

1. By
Web OPAC: A case study of
International Management
Institute Bhubaneswar Library
Dheeraj Singh Negi
dheerajnegi3@gmail.com

2. PPT Outline
Introduction IMIB library
Introduction WEB-OPAC
Advantage of WEB-OPAC
Analysis Books Searching by library users
Finding Web OPAC use by IMIB library Users
Why search Web OPAC
Conclusion

3. Introduction IMIB Library
• IMI Bhubaneswar library is located in a spacious and centrally
air conditioned building over two floors spread over 6000 sq.
feet.
• The Information Centre aims to support the diverse
information needs of all our students, faculty, researchers and
staff through the provision of the ultra modern information
resources and services.
• The library provides access to relevant digital resources,
covering not only all aspects of business and management, but
also related areas such as sociology, computer science,
economics, accounting, finance, behavioural sciences and
information technology etc.
• The large numbers of periodical titles subscribed by the library
are a vital source for academic research and most journals are
available electronically.
• The Library and Information Service at IMI Bhubaneswar, offers
access to a wide range of both printed and electronic sources
with greater emphasis on electronic delivery of information to
users.

4. Online Public Access Catalogue
• An Online Public Access Catalogue (often
abbreviated as OPAC or simply Library Catalogue) is
an online database of materials held by a library or
group of libraries. It is a computerized library
catalogue available to the public. Most OPACs are
accessible over the Internet to users all over the
world. Users search a library catalogue principally
to locate books and other material physically
located at a library
• Why use a catalogue instead of just browsing the
shelves of the library to find a book?
• Books that contain information on a particular topic
may be shelved in several different areas of
• the library, in special collections, or even in
different libraries altogether.

5. • Books are shelved in the library by call number order (a
unique number for each book), so you would have to be
very familiar with the either the Dewey Decimal or
Library of Congress Classification System to find the
small area devoted to your topic.
• The patrons in the library can search the bibliographic
database and find specific information online. The
• search facility also apprises the user about the
availability of each item for circulation, including current
• status of individual copies of a title and reserve status. It
also shows titles on order displaying current
• status in acquisition. The scope of these services include:

6. GENERAL FEATURES
An OPAC is designed to give the user bibliographic details
of holdings in the collection of a particular library. Many
OPACs also let the user search the OPACs of a number of
other libraries simultaneously, using the Z39.50
protocol. Z39.50 is an international standard for
communication between computer systems, primarily
library- and information-related systems. Not all LMS
suppliers may provide the full features of a portal, but
they generally offer the features found in traditional
OPACs, federated searching tools and user services such
as renewals and interlibrary loan (ILL) requests. In
addition, the portal may include other facilities for users
who also want to carry out transactions, such as
changing their address details, paying fines or cancelling
reservations through the library's web.

7. Slide Title
• Online Catalogues: The following catalogues are available online:
• Title Catalogue
• Author Catalogue
• Subject Catalogue
• Classified Catalogue
• Publisher
• Place of Publication
• Boolean Searches: The boolean searches can be made on words from
any of the bibliographic fields. The
• use of the logical connectors 'OR', 'AND' and 'AND NOT' is allowed.
The search is facilitated by using:
• • Truncation
• • Use of parentheses
• • Proximity connectors (same as provided by 'DIALOG')

8. OPAC in IMIB is accessible with
homepage

9. ADVANTAGES OF WEB OPAC
1. Users can immediately notice the missing reprints by author search.
2. Updating can be done quickly as Users take keen interest to submit the reprints.
3. It is accessible all the time, worldwide.
4. Increases awareness of 'Scientific Research Contributions' made by the Institute.
5. It is possible for users to send reprint requests immediately by e-mail.
6. Compilation of various lists of reprints becomes very easy.

10. Frequency by Library users
OPAC
Search
Students (%) Faculty(%) Staff (%) Other (%)
Title 55% 55% 55% 55%
Author 21% 21% 21% 21%
Publisher 9% 9% 9% 9%
Book No/
8% 8% 8% 8%
Acc No.
Etc 7% 7% 7% 7%
Total 100% 100% 100% 100%

11. Books Searching
Title
Books Searching
Author 55%
21%
Publisher
9%
Book No
8%
Etc
7%

12. Web OPAC use by IMIB library Users
PGDM 2013-
15
32%
PGDM 2014-
16
PGDM (WE) 24%
11%
Faculty
25%
Other
8%

13. Why search Web OPAC
Searching
of Books
Location
58%
User Needs
10%
Find the
Detail of
books
23%
Availablity
9%

14. Conclusion
IMIB library and Resource centre is a dynamic
Management information centre in India . There
are many library sources using by students and
faculty member. Above study a Finding that 100 %
students, faculty , other using web Opac his/her
work. Mostly Users use the web Opac for books
location searching .

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