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Perry, Edwin M. – Library Software Review, 1992
Reviews the developments of the 1960s that laid the groundwork for computer-assisted literature searching (CALS), the establishment of CALS as a major research tool in the 1970s, and the advent of end-user online CALS programs in the 1980s. The impact of CD-ROM products on librarians and students, future prospects, and global concerns affecting…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, History