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Download full textWilford, Valerie J.; Logan, Lee; Bell, Lori; Cloyes, Kay – 1998
The Alliance Library System (ALS) is one of 12 regional library systems in Illinois, providing a full spectrum of support services for 300 member libraries of all types (public, school, academic, and special) located in west central Illinois. This paper describes the process by which ALS implemented a voice/video/data network connecting their four…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Library Automation
Grygierczyk, Natalia – 1996
This paper investigates the need for electronic provision of information, and advises that the purpose and motivation for providing electronic resources be explored before embarking on a project to provide them. Many projects at universities and other institutes have been begun arbitrarily just because there happened to be financial resources…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSloan, Bernie – Reference & User Services Quarterly, 1998
Suggests guidelines to help libraries formalize their electronic reference services. Covers the following issues: administration/management (library division/department, library administration, campus administration, academic departments); services; primary clientele; personnel; infrastructure/facilities; finances; and evaluation. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Guidelines
The Internet and Local Online Databases: A "Novum Organum" for Twenty-First-Century Library Science.
Webb, Terry – 1996
In using conventional print, CD-ROM and online resources, librarians are still middlepersons between publishers and users. By exploiting Internet and World Wide Web online technology and developing local databases, libraries can tap new information sources and make them available to local audiences and others dispersed around the world in an…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Colleges, Computer Networks, Databases
Peer reviewedGilbert, J. D. – Information Services and Use, 1993
Discusses virtual libraries, i.e., library services available to users via personal computers; considers the issues of technological development, user demands, and organizational response; and describes progress toward virtual libraries in the Netherlands, including networks, online systems, navigation tools, subject classification, coordination…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Networks, Costs, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHawks, Carol Pitts – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1992
Discussion of integrated library systems focuses on the development of the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK). Capabilities of eight existing systems are described, including catalog creation and maintenance; the online public access catalog (OPAC); circulation, interlibrary loan, and document delivery; acquisitions and serials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks
