Re: TARGET-->What do you call your OPAC?

[sbrisco <sbrisco021@CHARTER.NET>]

But what is REALLY confusing is when students get to college and the
university librarians have named the OPAC things like:

    PETE--- Oklahoma State University
    PONY--- SMU in Dallas

And so on....

I spent many instructional periods as an assistant professor at OSU
explaining that the "online catalog" is also called an OPAC but that we
referred to it as PETE....(our mascot was Pistol Pete)....

Hopefully, they'll eventually get the idea that the jargon is used in all
professions...unfortunately, we aren't making some of this any easier!

~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco021@charter.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Debra W. Waugh" <debwaugh.lm_net@FRONTIERNET.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 6:13 AM
Subject: TARGET-->What do you call your OPAC?


> When referring your students to your OPAC, what do you call it? I refer to
> mine as the online catalog, but it occurs to me that this may leave them
> confused if they go on to a college that calls it the OPAC. Opinions?
> Practices?  TIA
>
> Deb Waugh
> Librarian/Instructional Technologist
> The Emmett G. Shufflebarger Library
> at Graham High School
> Bluefield, Virginia
> debwaugh.lm_net@frontiernet.net
> "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that
of
> an ignorant nation." --Walter Cronkite
>
>
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