Assesses the changing nature of information and user needs in the modern electronic networked environment. Suggests that library services must adapt to these changes and develop appropriate new services, and describes examples of such services that were developed by the State Library of Tasmania. (Author/LRW)

Discusses networked document imaging systems and describes necessary software features. Highlights include desktop workstations; network architecture; modular application software; images from a variety of formats; merging images with text; editing functions; managing an electronic library; document delivery formats; and printing. (LRW)

Describes Louisiana State University Libraries' Electronic Imaging Laboratory for preservation. The project uses digital imaging technology to reformat rare book materials for access. This technology can exist with traditional conservation procedures. (JLB)

Describes Gopher, a distributed document delivery service for electronic publishing across a computer network that allows a user to access data using a client-server communications model. The use of Gopher in campuswide information systems is described, and its use in libraries with electronic journals and multimedia documents is discussed. (three…

Discusses the future of books and other print media in an electronic age. Topics addressed include a history of societal changes resulting from new communication technologies; electronic libraries; the publishing industry; the impact of technology on book publishing; electronic books; and technology and literacy. (three references) (LRW)

Presents a conceptual model for an enhanced online public access catalog (OPAC) called SuperPAC, which includes features that allow users to critically evaluate the information they encounter. Two features are described: the integrated availability of electronic evaluative resources and the use of improved MARC records. (Contains 22 references.)…

Describes the VISION (video indexing for searching over networks) digital video library system which was developed at the University of Kansas as a testbed for evaluating automatic and comprehensive mechanisms for library creation and content-based search and retrieval of video over local and wide area networks. Discusses experimental results.…

Describes NEEDS (National Engineering Education Delivery System), a distributed server architecture developed to enable new pedagogical models based on Internet-mediated learning environments; linking solutions for electronic library services; Dublin Core updates citing relationship to other metadata efforts; and the computational, structural and…

Describes the origin of the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) as a persistent identifier for managing copyrighted materials and its development; creation of the U.S. Navy digital health sciences library for isolated primary care providers and their patients; Cornell and CNRI prototype architecture for interoperable digital objects and repositories;…

Discusses the tribal college virtual library project aimed at bringing digital opportunity to American Indian reservations by way of the 32 tribal colleges and universities in the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. Describes Bay Mills Community College's (Michigan) prototype virtual library and the expansion of this virtual library…

Discusses the public's growing ignorance about the value and capability of libraries. Topics include information skills, including measuring accuracy and authenticity of computer-based information; false expectations; the information explosion; and the need for a new literacy that includes information literacy, cultural literacy, computer…

Announces a pledge by the Texaco Foundation to the National Digital Library (NDL) Program of the Library of Congress to make "America from the Grass Roots" available on the World Wide Web. The presentation is comprised of four collections that focus on rural Southern, African American, Hispanic, and American Indian musical traditions.…

Offers insight into electronic text. Discusses seven characteristics of electronic text that have an impact on the notion of literacy and literacy instruction. Discusses repositories of electronic text, and describes a small sampling of sources for free electronic texts on the Internet that are easily accessible to teachers and useful for literacy…

As question answering services in the commercial sector proliferate, libraries are innovating with new forms of electronic reference (e-reference). The Library of Congress' Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS) extends worldwide. Discussion includes reference service developments; "reclaiming" users; growth of library interest…

Identifies a working set of standards by which to assess individual digital reference services (Internet-based human-mediated information services) and to define membership within a collaborative network of digital reference services. The standards are designed for the Virtual Reference Desk AskA Consortium. (Author/LRW)