Strengths
SILAS ( Singapore Integrated
Library Automation Service )
- Reduces orginal cataloguing and increases copy
cataloguing
- Reduces duplication in cataloguing
- Facilitates interlibrary loans
- Promotes co-operative acquisition
- Avoids duplication of subscription to external
records
- Enhances the national information structure
OPAC
- Easy to navigate-
users just need to type in few words and press a few buttons to prompt
the system.
- Easy to use-
for OPAC: barcode reader; for Self system: key in numbers and press
'Enter'.
- Wide network-
ability to search every entry inside databases regardless of location.
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