What¡¯s the OPAC?
OPAC is the online public access catalogue, through which users can search LRC holdings. Our current catalogue system is produced by Beijing Infosea Information Co., Ltd.
The catalogue has both Chinese and English interfaces. It can be searched by title, author, subject, ISBN, call number, and publisher.
What functions does the OPAC offer?
Using the catalogue, you can:
Search for books, journals, CDs and any other materials held in the UIC Learning Resources Centre. Please note that the catalogue only indexes the bibliographic information, such as author, title, abstract, and publisher. It does not contain the full-text of the item, such as book contents, which is different from bibliographic databases.
Check your personal information and loan records.
Reserve an item that you would like to borrow while it is issued to someone else.
Renew the items that you have borrowed.
Print the call number of your search result items.
Make a purchase recommendation. Any students or staff can recommend for the purchase of library resources. We will process your recommendations according to the Collection Development Policy.
Leave your message on the bulletin board.
Login in the OPAC
Click Catalogue on the Learning Resources Centre's website.
Or, type http://192.168.111.169:8080/opac in the URL address bar in the Internet browser.
Tip: Currently, LRC's OPAC system is on-campus access only.
Search the OPAC
1. Choose English Books or Chinese Books by clicking Type drop-down menu.
2. You can put your search terms in the three search boxes and combine the three search boxes by using Boolean search (and, not, or). The search fields include:
Keyword, any terms describe/identify your search topics, including all search fields;
Title, name of a book, journal, and other materials;
ISBN, International Standard Book Number, a unique 10 or 13 digital numbers assigned to the published book to identify the book. The normal ISBN number format is like X-XXX-XXXXX-X. You can only enter the number without the hyphen in between.
Author, the person/group who is responsible for writing, editing and creating the publication. Type the author¡¯s last name or first name or the full name.
Call Number, the numbers assigned to books according to a classification system. Books are shelved in call number sequence in the library. Enter the complete number as much detail as possible;
Publisher, type the name of organization which prints the martial.
Subject, the terms describe the subject content of the book and used to improve the search precision.
Search tips:
To start your search, choose proper type. Chinese books and English books are indexed in different cataloguing starndards and databases. You cannot find Chinese books in English books option, and vise verse.
Directly type ISBN number in the ISBN search box. No hypen is needed between the number.
You can only type first few words of the title in the Title search box. You need not to type the complete title.
Understand the Search Record
1. Click the title link to view the detail of this book.
2.To find the book from the shelf and borrow the book, you need to check the book location information and loan status.
Location: There are multiple locations in the Information Centre: Chinese Book Collection, English Book Collection, Reference Collection and Course Reserve Collection.
Call Number: is the sequence of book shelved on the shelf. You can find the book on the shelf by the call number.
Status: indicates the availability of book.
Available ¨C item is on the shelf in the LRC.
On loan ¨C items has borrowed out.
Requested ¨C Someone placed a request to hold this book
3.
Other functions of OPAC
n My Account
Click My Account at the top of the Catalogue interface and input your campus card number and password. The initial password is 0000. You can check your personal information and your loan records. Please update your contact information if your contact information changes. In addition, please pay attention to your fine information. If you have unpaid fine, you cannot borrow and use LRC's resources.
n Suggestions for Purchase
You can recommend an item of your interest while we currently do not hold it. We will consider your suggestions according the collection development policy.
n Bulletins and User¡¯s Message
Leave a message or comment to us by filling the message form. Please note the bulletin board will be viewed by all users. If your message is confidential, please send your message to appropriate LRC staff¡¯s email.