Impressioms of OPAC

What did you learn about the Miller Center LR&TS OPAC that you wished you had known before?
Visit the Great River Regional Library OPAC and search for materials on your topic. What features were the same, and which were different? How many results did you get through the Great River OPAC compared to the Miller Center OPAC? Were they the type of books that you expected? Why or why not?

I learned many things from the Miller Center LR&TS OPAC, but the most prominent lesson that I learned was the simple fact that a person could go online and look up any book they wanted and then if it is availabe, go and check it out. I mean I've always known that a person is able to look up books on the web but I never really knew that it was that simple to actually find where they're actually located, when the last time they were checked out, and all of the background information on that book that is given. If I would have known this before, I woundn't have had to ask a librarian for help on locating a certain book.

On the Great River Regional Library OPAC, I found out that the most common aspect it has with the Miller Center LR&TS OPAC is the fact that it has a very basic search option with a keyword tool. It also had the advanced search, search by number, and the alphabetical search. I thought the most noticable difference was the ask a Librarian tool in the Miller Center site. After searching for my research topic at both sites, I realized that the Great River Regional Library gave me more results with 76 compared to 52 with the Miller Center Library. But the difference was the quality of the results. I received much more quality results with the Mill Center Library search. In the Great River Regional Library, my search results did not have any familiarness with my research topic. I used the same keywords and did not get the same results. I believe that the Miller Center LR&TS OPAC is a much more quality search engine and will continue to use it!