OPAC

Do you know what the OPAC might be? Well, the official term is Online Public Access Catalog but OPAC is much easier to remember. If you use that term in a library, they will know you mean their catalog of what they own. Our 3rd and 4th graders know that if they go on the Charlestown School Destiny Quest OPAC they can look up books, get the call number, and find the book. If the book is "out", they write their name on a Hold list so they'll be in line for when it is returned.

When we went to Destiny Quest in September, it enabled us to make our OPAC web-based to allow searching outside our school. I've been wanting to add a link to our school library OPAC and hope I'm finally getting it done. That means I hope you will go to our Destiny Quest OPAC if you click the link below:

http://opac/quest/servlet/presentquestform.do?site=202&alreadyValidated=true

Destiny is the trade name for our Follett Software which is much more visual than the previous OPAC; kids like seeing the cover of the book. Of course, Destiny is the system that crashed for over a month and we're still repairing portions of it. That means, if you look at the Destiny Quest homepage for any Chariho elementary school you will see some lists for Richmond School, namely "4th Grade Battle for the Books" and "Playaways" (we have Playaways, but that list is for Richmond). I met with other district librarians last night and we're still trying to fix those problems! Meanwhile, I will be encourage students to use Destiny Quest from home.