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Download full textWalz, Garry R.; Bleuer, Jeanne C. – 1998
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally funded program inaugurated in 1966 to serve as the nation's archive of important education documents. ERIC clearinghouses identify, select, and prepare entries describing education-related materials for the ERIC database; provide information in response to mail, telephone, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Counseling, Counselors, Databases
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1993
This document contains the transcript of three hearings on the High Speed Performance Computing and High Speed Networking Applications Act of 1993 (H.R. 1757). The hearings were designed to obtain specific suggestions for improvements to the legislation and alternative or additional application areas that should be pursued. Testimony and prepared…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Distance Education, Electronic Libraries, Federal Legislation
Hanson, Katherine; Carlson, Bethany – Education Development Center, Inc., 2005
The Effective Access (EA) team conducted a limited, multi-level investigation of high school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators and their use of digital objects. The team attempted to answer the following questions to identify teachers' unique needs in the digital library environment, to provide a better…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Hands on Science, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2006
This report investigates current trends in libraries and museums regarding the use of digitization and other technologies. In 2001, the Institute of Museum and Library Services conducted the first-ever study of the status of new technology adoption and digitization in the nation's museums and libraries. The baseline study identified pockets of…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Public Libraries, Museums, Archives
Nixon, Carol, Comp. – 2002
This book contains presentations from the 17th annual Computers in Libraries Conference. Topics covered include: chatting with a librarian; verbots for library Web sites; collaborative IT (Information Technology) planning at Montgomery County Public Library (Maryland); designing a local government taxonomy; Weblogs; new roles for librarians in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Management
Karen, Vladimir; Psohlavec, Stanislav – 1996
In 1996, the Czech National Library started a large-scale digitization of its extensive and invaluable collection of historical manuscripts and printed books. Each page of the selected documents is scanned using a high-resolution, full-color digital camera, processed, and archived on a CD-ROM disk. HTML coded description is added to the entire…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries
Neff, Raymond K. – 1997
The libraries in U.S. research universities are being systematically depopulated of current subscriptions to scholarly journals. Annual increases in subscription costs are consistently outpacing the growth in library budgets; this has become a chronic problem for academic libraries which collect in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
Worthington, Tom – 2000
This paper begins with a discussion of outsourcing. The first section summarizes an Australian Computer Society paper on information technology outsourcing, including reasons for outsourcing and critical issues. The second section discusses the outsourced library, including: the use of the Internet to deliver services; replacement of the library…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Disabilities, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Novak, Jan – 2000
This paper discusses client service issues to be considered when transitioning to a virtual library situation. Themes related to the transitional nature of society in the knowledge era are presented, including: paradox and a contradictory nature; blurring of boundaries; networks, systems, and holistic thinking; process/not product, becoming/not…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology
De Bra, Paul, Ed.; Leggett, John, Ed. – 1999
The 1999 WebNet conference addressed research, new developments, and experiences related to the Internet and World Wide Web. The 394 contributions of WebNet 99 contained in this proceedings comprise the full and short papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Major topics covered include: commercial, business, professional, and community…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Courseware, Educational Technology, Electronic Libraries
Solbakk, Svein Arne – 2002
This paper describes some basic architectural choices for the access to and preservation of digital objects at the National Library of Norway. A digital repository is a core element for the handling of both access to and preservation of the digital objects. Strategies for giving access to the complete holdings include the use of a powerful search…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Saffady, William – 1999
This book is divided into two parts; the first part (chapters 1-4) discusses fundamental aspects of computing and related technologies, and the second part (chapters 5-8) covers library automation, systems, and services. The chapters are as follows: (1) Computer Hardware, including the central processor, input peripherals, output peripherals, and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Peripherals, Computer Software, Computer System Design
Edwards, Heather – 1998
This paper discusses GAELIC (Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium), a regional consortium of South African higher education libraries with the vision of creating a virtual library by linking together autonomous libraries via networks. Topics covered include: (1) GAELIC objectives; (2) selection of INNOPAC as the common library system for GAELIC…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Blandford, Ann; Stelmaszewska, Hanna; Bryan-Kinns, Nick – 2001
Digital libraries are moving from research and development into commercial use. If they are to realize their full potential, however, the experiences of end users need to be taken into account from the earliest stages of design. Those end users are typically individuals who have no particular skills in information retrieval, and are accessing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval
Dewey, Barbara I. – 1999
Advancing library services in large universities requires creative approaches for "building to scale." This is the case for CIC, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Big Ten), libraries whose home institutions serve thousands of students, faculty, staff, and others. Developing virtual Web-based services is an increasingly viable…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Services
