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Online Catalogs


Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet.

Pros and Cons


Advantages

  • Easy to search for items by detail.
  • Usually lower prices than retail outlets.
  • Up-to-date information on price, quantity and stock.
  • Convenience: shopping at home.
  • More detailed information about the product (photos, instructions, safety procedures, demonstrations).
  • Product review and industry information.

Disadvantages

  • Customers cannot test products.
  • Impersonal
  • Shipping costs
  • Customers cannot ask the retailer questions without delays.
  • Lower security (Identity theft, virus, hacking.)
  • Searching for products can be difficult if all related inquiries for the product are not associated with it.
  • Dail-up users may have difficulty accessing the site, isolating a customer segment.

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CENTRA - Provides the online catalog for the Central Michigan University Libraries.

DutchESS (English version) - Electronic subject service provided by the Royal Library in the Netherlands.

Goethe-Institut - Online union catalog of the library collections of the Goethe Institutes around the world, housing books and audiovisual media about Germany.

ILLINET Online - Illinois statewide resource sharing system and union catalog.

Institute of Palestine Studies Library - The IPS-Library in Beirut is the largest library in the Arab world specializing in Palestinian affairs, Judaica, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Site connects to the library's electronic catalog which is searchable in several ways.

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) - A service of Karlsruhe University Library. Gives access to books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide.
Meta Description: [ Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a service of Karlsruhe University Library. It gives easy access to more than 100 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide ]

Kentucky Virtual Library - Online catalogs and databases, and access to Kentuckiana digitized collections. User ID and password required.

Library of Congress Online Catalog - Online access to the collections resident at the Library of Congress.
Meta Description: [ The Library of Congress collections include over 110 million items in a variety of formats and languages. The catalog information for many of these items has appeared in a number of traditional card catalogs located in the Library. Much of the information in these catalogs is also searchable ov... ]

LibraryLink - Online union catalog of the various Filipiniana Libraries in the Philippines.
Meta Description: [ LibraryLink, union catalogue of Filipiniana resources hosted by the Filipinas Heritage Library. ]

LibraryLookup - Bookmarklets for looking up catalog records from book-related sites.

MAPLIN - Manitoba Public Libraries Union Catalogue - Provides access to the holdings of Manitoba public libraries, for use as cataloguing source or to initiate interlibrary loans.

Metafore2.ca - Metadata on Forestry in Canada - The Canadian Forest Service Library Network catalogue. In French, English and Spanish.
Meta Description: [ The Canadian Forest Service Library Network Catalogue - Metafore2.ca - Le catalogue du réseau des bibliothèques du Service canadien des forêts ]

Metro Boston Library Network - Online catalogs in Eastern Massachusetts.

OhioLINK - Shared catalog of the academic libraries of Ohio. Also provides access to databases and member information.
Meta Description: [ OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network, is a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio, providing research and information services to Ohio's higher education community. ]

Penelitian Hukum Indonesia - Online access to the Indonesian regulations collections at Penelitian Hukum Indonesia. User ID and password required.

SJCPL's Online Catalog - St. Joseph County Public Library's Online Catalog which contains over 500,000 records and includes the holdings of four area public libraries.

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives - Gateway to the collections of the Smithsonian Institute.

The International CIPAC List - Card-image public access catalogues (CIPACs) are online library catalogues based on databases of digitised catalogue cards and more or less sophisticated mechanisms for browsing or searching. This page offers links to all known catalogues of this kind, arranged by countries.

Worldcat - Meta search engine for online catalogs of libraries all over the world. Search for any book using a geographic location for the closest sources.
Meta Description: [ Window to the world's libraries ]

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