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Advanced Network Technology. Background Paper.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1993
This background paper analyzes technologies for tomorrow's information superhighways. Advanced networks will first be used to support scientists in their work, but will soon be deployed more widely in business, entertainment, health care, and education. Significant progress has been made toward the development of gigabit network technology since…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Networks, Information Technology
Pan-American Health Organization CD-ROM Pilot Project.
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Brito, Claudio J. – Information Development, 1987
Examines the difficulties faced by the implementors of information dissemination systems in developing nations and explores the possible use of optical data disk technologies to overcome them. A pilot project of the Pan American Health Organization for the production of a CD-ROM containing bibliographic references on public health is described.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
An Open Forum on the Provision of Electronic Federal Information to Depository Libraries. Report of the Staff of the Joint Committee on Printing to the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing. Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session.
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Joint Committee on Printing, Washington, DC. – 1985
An open forum was held to let concerned parties comment on the report, "Provision of Federal Government Publications in Electronic Format to Depository Libraries," and to solicit suggestions for possible pilot projects that could test the feasibility of the proposal. More than 150 agency representatives, congressional staffers,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Depository Libraries, Electronic Publishing