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Peer reviewedWhelan, Errol A.; Chan, Jeanie – Library Software Review, 1988
Describes how the Swift-Current Comprehensive High School (Saskatchewan) library computerized to create an online catalog, provide access to remote databases, and acquire CD-ROM reference systems. Objectives, hardware and software selection and costs, implementation, and evaluation are discussed. Seven references are listed, and a directory of…
Descriptors: Costs, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Library Automation
Peer reviewedPerry, 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
