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| Turner, F. | 1 |
| Zeeman, J. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedTurner, Fay – Canadian Library Journal, 1990
Describes an international interlibrary loan (ILL) protocol that was developed by the National Library of Canada to permit the exchange of ILL messages between bibliographic institutions that use different computers, systems, and communications services. Standardization is discussed, protocol testing is described, and international ILL protocol…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Interlibrary Loans
Peer reviewedTurner, Fay – Library Hi Tech, 1990
Discusses the interlibrary loan (ILL) protocol, a standard based on the principles of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model. Benefits derived from protocol use are described, the status of the protocol as an international standard is reviewed, and steps taken by the National Library of Canada to facilitate migration to an ILL…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
Peer reviewedKavanagh, Rosemary – Canadian Library Journal, 1988
Describes TRESNET, a fully automated resource sharing network that provides an interlibrary loan and film booking system for the public libraries of seven counties and three municipalities in Ontario. The discussion covers the implementation and operation of the network and benefits being derived from it. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
O'Brien, Leacy – Feliciter, 1996
Discusses issues and trends affecting Canadian academic libraries that were major themes at the 1996 Canadian Library Association annual conference in Halifax (Nova Scotia). Topics include government funding decreases; restructuring in education and library services; consortia; library cooperation and collaboration; computer networks; interlibrary…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Conferences, Consortia
Peer reviewedCopeland, Lynn – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993
Describes the Online Journal Access Citation (OJAC) project developed with the British Columbia Electronic Library Network and Simon Fraser University to demonstrate the feasibility of an electronic document delivery system. Topics discussed include publicity, training, and documentation; telecommunications; effects on regular interlibrary loans;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Costs, Electronic Libraries
Download full textZeeman, J.; Turner, F. – 1997
A distributed union catalog is a network of bibliographic systems that cooperate to enable their users to discover sites that hold copies of known items. Some participating systems will be traditional union catalogs, others will be single sites with comprehensive collections, and others will be local or regional resource sharing systems. A…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging
Lunau, Carrol; Turner, Fay – 1997
The virtual Canadian union catalog (vCuc) project is a project among Canadian libraries to use Z39.50 (an information protocol standard) for searching distributed individual library catalogs and union catalogs. This paper summarizes the major technical, vendor, bibliographic data, and administrative issues that must be resolved before the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging
