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Fitzwater, Diana; Fradkin, Bernard – American Libraries, 1988
Describes the Reference by GammaFax Project, which joined nine area libraries to provide cooperative reference access to optical disk databases. The configuration of disk players, microcomputers, and facsimile equipment used by the libraries is explained, and the improvements in cost effectiveness, provision of service, and librarian expertise are…
Descriptors: Databases, Facsimile Transmission, Library Networks, Microcomputers