Usage and awareness of OPAC by faculty of university library, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

OPAC is an interactive search module of an automated library management system. Any type of reading materials is searched directly from the managed database of the library. Catalogue is the face of the libraries and the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) changed the conventional card catalogue structure. This paper presents and analysis online public access catalogue services provided by University library, university of agricultural sciences, Dharwad. It also discusses the purpose, frequency, awareness on use of OPAC. The result of the study shows that the faculties of UASD are aware about use of OPAC and regularly using to trace the library holdings by Title, Author, Subject, etc.