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The use of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) as an easy access to information at the Bogor School of Fishery, Department of Fishery Extension, has not been optimized. Most of library users would go through the bookshelves or simply ask the officers for books that they look for. This study aims to understand the users perception of the OPAC. The study was conducted using descriptive-quantitative method. The data collection technique was done by observation, questionnaire, and literature reviews. There are as many as 75 users chosen as respondents by using Taro Yamane formula. The research outcome shows ideal perception of users that include understanding, appearance quality, user-friendliness; OPAC data precision based on SLiMS, human resources and sophisticated data collection. The users perception that is considered unsatisfactory includes OPAC data collection that hasn't met the users expectation as not all collection are uploaded into the OPAC system, leading to the inconsistency of collected items in the bookshelves to the data shown in the OPAC. In addition, disorganized book collection causes difficulties among users when searching for the items they need that they prefer to ask the librarian rather than looking for the book themselves through OPAC. To tackle with the issues, efforts were made such as data collection updating, improving the organization of books on bookshelves, oral and practical training for users and making OPAC user guideline available. Insufficient facility is also considered as unsatisfactory as one computer only is not enough and therefore addition of facility is needed to help ease long queue.