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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
Stocks, Jenny – Laserdisk Professional, 1990
Describes a study that used the Delphi technique to investigate the impact and likely potential of CD-ROM technology in Australian academic and special libraries. The areas of library applications examined include cataloging, reference work, archival storage, general development of CD-ROM hardware and software, and funding for CD-ROM products and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Cataloging, Delphi Technique
Peer reviewedEger, A. J. – Online Review, 1988
Two questionnaires sent to medical librarians and users of the Core Medline/Ebsco CD-ROM disc in the Netherlands gathered data on librarians' attitudes toward the various forms in which Medline is offered--i.e., printed, online, and CD-ROM. Tables and graphs present data on product attributes, availability, use, relevance, subjects searched,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Comparative Analysis, Databases, Foreign Countries
Download full textUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1992
This document reports the result of a study carried out to evaluate the installation and use of the UNESCO CD-ROM prototype. A questionnaire in English and French was sent to about 267 institutions around the world. Replies were received from 97 bodies, giving a response rate of about 36%. Almost all respondents were information professionals in…
Descriptors: Databases, Foreign Countries, Graphs, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedMoscoso, Purificacion; And Others – Online & CD-ROM Review, 1995
Analyzes the use of online and CD-ROM databases for bibliographic and reference services by 33 Spanish universities. Highlights include evolution of automation; personnel; users; search typology and motive; user training; problems in serving the public; computer equipment; online service costs; and database providers. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Costs, Databases, Foreign Countries
Chepesiuk, Ron – American Libraries, 1997
Describes the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) efforts in China, Germany, Canada, Scotland, Jamaica and Brazil. Discusses FirstSearch, an end-user reference service, and WorldCat, a bibliographic database. Highlights international projects developing increased OCLC online availability, database loading software, CD-ROM cataloging,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cataloging, Chinese, Computer Interfaces
Tenopir, Carol; Neufang, Ralf – Online, 1992
Presents results of a survey of ARL (Association of Research Libraries) members in the United States and Canada that was conducted to discover which electronic reference options are offered and their impact on library services. Online mediated searching, CD-ROM, end-user searching, and local databases are investigated. (nine references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Bowman, Benjamin F. – 1996
For the past two decades the central Information Retrieval Services of the Max Planck Society has been providing database searches for scientists in Max Planck Institutes and Research Groups throughout Germany. As a supplement to traditional search services offered by professional intermediaries, they have recently fostered the introduction of a…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases, Foreign Countries
Wills, Deborah – 1993
This manual was produced during the 1992-93 Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario school year to be used as a reference guide and a training tool for library support staff assigned to work at the library's information desks. Its purpose is to help ensure a uniform standard of service and to provide practical procedures for information and basic…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFidler, Linda M.; Johnson, Debra Wilcox – Public Libraries, 1994
Discusses and compares the incorporation of technology by larger public libraries in Canada and the United States. Technology mentioned includes online public access catalogs; remote and local online database searching; microcomputers and software for public use; and fax, voice mail, and Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf and Teletype writer…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks, Databases
