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Making the Cyrillic OPAC a Reality |
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| Abstract: | SUMMARY The steps leading to the development of a Cyrillic OPAC at Queens Borough Public Library are presented by the authors. Issues covered include Cyrillic character display, font requirements, searching strategies, web browser interface development, authority and subject control, promotion, and publicity. The importance of librarian and customer involvement and training are discussed. |
| Keywords: | Cyrillic Russian library catalog OPAC encoding scheme vernacular display character maps native language fonts web browser interface development authority records subject control MARC keyboard input methods Unicode translation transliteration Queens Borough Public Library New York Sirsi |