So, the Bibis OPAC is a supplement to Bibis LMS, our library automation software. Many different types of media can be included in the catalogue because Bibis LMS offers you the facility of varying the title descriptions and copy descriptions per type.

This allows you to decide for yourself what arrangement of categories you want to use. Bibis LMS offers you the facility of making references in a title description to, for example, an abstract, multi-media files such as images, audio and video fragments and other references as well such as, for example, to a DTP text file. There are input and change programs available for all possible references.

Just like Bibis LMS, the Bibis OPAC is completely built on web technology. You just give the search engine a query, and it will set to work. From wide-ranging to specific, forwards and then back again. It is the answer to the frequently-made request to 'be able to browse backwards as well'. Another important aspect is that the Bibis LMS user requires just one interface both for searching externally all over the world via the Internet and consulting internally in their own library. What Square really had in mind was the creation of a 'thin client', so that a 'thick' PC was no longer required. One interface and a PC with sufficient memory and hard disk capacity suffices for searching and for storing temporarily the information found. The browser is an excellent interface. This web technology will obviously have an enormous impact within the organization, with a high degree of acceptance of the interface chosen. Because each employee will know the interface and be able to use it. The consequences will be that the documents available will receive immense usage and that superfluous instructions and helpdesk questions will be reduced. In future everyone will create their own links and favorites themselves in the browser.

The user can immediatly make use of the gathered results. From logical locations in the search program the user can make orders or reservations. These wishes will be forwarded to the library or Knowledge Center through Bibis LMS.