This document discusses web-based catalogues and how they have evolved with web searching trends. It describes how library resources can now be accessed remotely through web-based online public access catalogs (OPACs). The document also provides details on the functions and search methods of the University of the Western Cape library's web-based ALEPH catalogue, which is part of the CALICO agreement and indexes holdings in OCLC's WorldCat Local and Sabinet. It concludes that libraries must meet users' information needs by bringing resources to users online.

1. Web-based
catalogue
Web 2.0 trends
Web searching
By Gerald Louw

3. O Impact
OWeb 2.0 trends
OWeb searching
OWeb based catalogue

4. O King (2007:1)
O Change in format and retrieval techniques
O Madhusudhan (2011)
O Library resources made accessible
remotely through web-based OPAC/Web
PAC

5. Functions
O Direct patrons/users
O Different search methods
O E.g. boolean logic, phrase searching
OWeb-based OPACs provide faceted
navigation

6. UWC library
O Part of CALICO agreement
O Member of OCLC
O Holdings of UWC library
O ALEPH catalogue
O CALICO
OWorldCat Local
O Sabinet

7. Conclusion
O Library must come to the user to find out
how they can be better meet the
information need of the users.

8. Reference list
O King, Lizette. 2007. Information literacy of
incoming undergraduate Arts students at
the University of the Western Cape:
assessment of competencies and
proficiencies. Bellville: University of the
Western Cape.
O Madhusudhan, Margam. 2011. Web-based
Online Public Access Catalogues of
HT libraries in India: An Evaluative Study.
Program.45(4):pp.415-438

9. O Thank you