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  2. Lehman College - Wikipedia

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    Lehman College is a public college in New York City.Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, it became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967.The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, philanthropist, and the son of Lehman Brothers co-founder Mayer Lehman.

  3. Online public access catalog - Wikipedia

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    Online public access catalog. The online public access catalog ( OPAC ), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously used in libraries.

  4. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    Database includes more than 90 million scientific publications and 12 million patents. Free MyScienceWork Inc: National Diet Library Collection: Multidisciplinary: 44,187,016 Japanese. Catalog for the National Library of Japan. Free National Diet Library: OAIster: Multidisciplinary: 30,000,000 Covers records contributed by over 1,500 ...

  5. Library catalog - Wikipedia

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    The Card Catalog at the Library of Congress. A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog.

  6. Hunter College - Wikipedia

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    Hunter College. /  40.768538°N 73.964741°W  / 40.768538; -73.964741. Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools.

  7. Discovery system (bibliographic search) - Wikipedia

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    A discovery system is a bibliographic search system based on search engine technology. It is part of the concept of Library 2.0 and is intended to supplement or even replace the existing OPAC catalogs. These systems emerged in the late 2000s in response to user desire for a more convenient search option similar to that of internet search engine ...

  8. Cataloging (library science) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In library and information science, cataloging ( US) or cataloguing ( UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as author's names, titles, and subject terms that describe resources, typically through the creation ...

  9. WorldCat - Wikipedia

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    The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the ...