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 ====== Mystic Help ======
-==== What is an OPAC? ====
+===== What is an OPAC? =====
-This help file has not yet being released.
+{{:pergamonmystic:linkedhelp:mystichelp_opac_0001.jpg?direct&200 |}}
-The Mystic Help Files are being re-written for the release of **Mystic v1.5, during the summer of 2021**.
+Traditionally, in library management an **OPAC** or **Open Public Access Catalogue** represented the means by which principally readers (users of the library) could search for items which were recorded in the library catalogue.
-For now, please use the Pergamon Help files by clicking the **Pergamon Wiki** Icon at the top of this page, or **Pergamon Wiki Home** below.
+Today, while we still often use the term **OPAC**, the search facilities, what the catalogue may contain, and the functions that can be performed with items that have been found, far exceed the functions once provided by those older systems.
+In the past, the results of an OPAC search would typically provide you with confirmation of basic details and the classification of the item - such as the traditional Dewey system - which would allow you to find the item on the shelves of the library.
+In a modern OPAC the results may additionally include far more information, an abstract of the item, and a range of other multi-media attachments. In fact the item itself may be virtual, not physical, and exist only as a record in the database.
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+Next: [[PergamonMystic:linkedhelp:searchopac|OPAC - Searching the OPAC]]
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