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Stearns, Susan – Computers in Libraries, 1996
Gopher and other early implementations of the virtual library are being superseded by the World Wide Web concept of "the global village library." Public libraries are implementing institutional Web pages, patron access to Internetwide e-mail, interagency programs, and Web training. Legislative issues and implications for the future are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Agency Cooperation, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
Download full textLopez de Prado, Rosario – 1996
This paper describes the creation of an automated network of museum libraries in Spain. The only way in which the specialized libraries in the world today can continue to be active and to offer valid information is to automate the service they offer, and create network libraries with cooperative plans. The network can be configured with different…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedThompson, Ronelle, Ed. – Library Hi Tech, 1996
Discusses multitype library cooperation in South Dakota, including a statewide automated network that supports library operations and contains periodical indexes; state library activities that include providing service to rural libraries via the Internet as well as library staff training; and school library projects. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education, Indexes, Information Services
Adams, Kate; Rosenquist-Buhler, Carla – 1997
Recent technological advances and administrative planning have significantly improved the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's (UNL) ability to provide continuing education courses to students at a distance. The UNL Libraries deliver services in partnership with the Division of Continuing Studies and several departments on campus. This paper focuses…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
Peer reviewedWolfe, Gary D., Ed. – Library Hi Tech, 1996
This overview of information technology in Pennsylvania discusses Internet access in public libraries; technology infrastructure; strategic partnerships; future possibilities; distance learning for small, rural, and/or poor school districts; an electronic communication network; a computer bulletin board for teachers; and a database for school,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
McClure, Charles R. – 1996
This paper explores the challenges and opportunities facing libraries as they evolve into the electronic networked environment, and looks at options for libraries in the year 2000 and beyond. The internationally networked environment has fundamentally changed the way in which people acquire and use information resources and services. The paper…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Computer Networks, Distance Education
