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- MAI (Italian MetaOPAC Azalai) or the virtual collective catalogue of the Italian libraries starts on 18th May 1999. It is a cooperation between AIB (Library Italian Association) and CILEA (Interuniversity Lombard Association for Automatic Processing). MAI's services are addressed to different users and they are checked by AIB-CILEA editing whose staff is directed by Antonella De Robbio, concerning AIB-WEB, and by Fabio Valenziano, concerning MetaOPAC-CILEA.
MAI is the project of Italian OPAC (Online Pubblic Access Catalogue) cataloguing in database, that is the core of the whole system. The e-mail editing (AW-OPAC@AIB.IT) is the main means to exchange the results of their works. The editing enters into database by web all over Italy to hold the data. A text concerning Italian OPAC editing work has been written; it is useful to start up a first systematization of the methods of OPAC's selection and cataloguing and the operations to include the data into MAI's database. MAI is not only a MetaOPAC for the concurrent query of Italian OPAC, but also it is a complex system that supplies services and informative products to the library users and also to general users. The main aim is to provide an access to Italian OPAC.
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- Journal Article (Print/Paginated)
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