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Download full textLi, Tze-chung – 1988
The last three decades have shown a marked development in new technologies for storing and retrieving information: microform in the 1960s; online database in the 1970s, and CD-ROM in the 1980s. While microform lacks volatility and multiple access points, preservation programs find it to be ideal storage media: it has a longer life expectancy than…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Gateway Systems, Information Technology
Peer reviewedForce, Ron – Reference Librarian, 1994
Considers how to plan for online reference services. Highlights include local access to databases, including CD-ROM and database licensing; local gateways; online search services; and planning considerations, including cost, locating online information, telecommunications and computing infrastructures, and equal access. (Contains 15 references.)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Costs, Databases
Ardis, Susan B. – Online, 1990
Describes the development of an expert system for online patent searching that uses menu driven software to interpret the user's knowledge level and the general nature of the search problem. The discussion covers the rationale for developing such a system, current system functions, cost effectiveness, user reactions, and plans for future…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Expert Systems
Kochmer, Jonathan – 1993
The purpose of this guide is to help computer network users get over the hurdle of new technologies. Every Internet user is different, but most network activities depend on the mastery of three basic skills: using electronic mail (e-mail) to communicate with other Internet users; logging in to remote computers with a service called Telnet, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Databases, Directories
Sutton, Brett – Illinois Libraries, 1992
Provides an overview of computer networking and discusses three general applications--communications, remote access, and file transfer--and their benefits to library services. Outlines three problems librarians face--economic and technological access, training, and the challenge of participative development of the Internet. (14 references/notes)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases
Hawkins, Donald T.; And Others – Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, 1992
Reviews the conventional publishing industry, and discusses a study of the electronic publishing industry and its products and processes. Discusses seven major forces affecting it--technology, economics, demographics, social trends, government policies, applications growth, and industry trends--and outlines principles to follow for success in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Competition, Costs, Databases
