TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper draws on data from a comparative study of use of the online public access catalogue (OPAC) and the card catalogue of the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) library, and examines the steady decline in the use of subject searching by end‐users and the associated problems and issues. It presents data to highlight the negligible use of Boolean operators and combination searches, variations in descriptors assigned to books of the same class numbers, and too many records tagged to very broad descriptors. The article concludes that moving from a traditional card catalogue to a modern OPAC has not made subject searching more attractive or effective.
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
SN  - 1065-075X
DO  - 10.1108/10650750410564691
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750410564691
AU  - Sridhar M.S.
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - Subject searching in the OPAC of a special library: problems and issues
T2  - OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 183
EP  - 191
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -