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Doran, Kirk – Computers in Libraries, 1995
Discussion of the Internet highlights its use in libraries and the need to teach patrons what it can and cannot be used for. Topics include the number and variety of existing sources, vendor organization and reliability issues, speed, quality control and regulation issues, and permanence of sources. (LRW)
Descriptors: Change, Computer Networks, Information Sources, Libraries
Perone, Karen – Computers in Libraries, 1996
Provides an introduction to CD-ROM networking. Highlights include LAN (local area network) architectures for CD-ROM networks, peer-to-peer networks, shared file and dedicated file servers, commercial software/vendor solutions, problems, multiple hardware platforms, and multimedia. Six figures illustrate network architectures and a sidebar contains…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Peripherals, Guidelines, Information Technology
Annichiarico, Mark – Library Journal, 1994
Describes Books on Tape, an unabridged audiobook publisher, and its appeal to the library market. Discussion covers reading styles used on the tapes, the lack of celebrity readers, the story of the company's founding and development, its use of computerized customer tracking and networking, the availability of replacement tapes, and cassette cover…
Descriptors: Art, Audiotape Cassettes, Audiotape Recordings, Competition
Peer reviewedTedd, Lucy A. – Journal of Documentation, 1995
An overview of the development of CD-ROMs is presented. Aspects covered include changes in coverage, the use of CD-ROMs in libraries and information units, changes in search interfaces and growth in end-user searching, changes in CD-ROM publishers, and hardware and networking developments. (Author)
Descriptors: Background, Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Information Technology
Schwarzwalder, Robert – Database, 1995
Discusses the networking of image-based libraries of scientific and technical documents and the role of information professionals in the future of libraries and information access. Topics include commercial databanks, projects involving cooperation between technical publishers and universities, and the Internet and World Wide Web. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Cooperation, Databases
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
