Book searching using truncation / Muhammad Alif Abdul Malek

Nowadays, book searching system or Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) are commonly used among the students who want to search for the books. However due to the lack of understanding of the current system, it is hard for the students to search and find the books that they are looking for. Besides that, the current system actually tends to be designed with assumption that the user should have knowledge about the books such as subjects, author and title. Thus the students who not clear what they are looking for might give difficulties to them to search for it. That is explain why most of the student are most likely to do simple search (keywords) compared to advance search (search by title, author, etc.) to find their books. Based on the weaknesses, truncation is the suitable technique to be use and implemented for the current book searching system as to fulfill the requirements for the students to search the books efficiently.