World libraries on the information superhighway preparing for the challenges of the new millennium /

This book explores issues of Internet-based services in libraries and provides practitioners and educators with examples of libraries that have achieved success in this important emerging information area.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Fletcher, Patricia Diamond, 1948-, Bertot, John Carlo.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Libraries and the internet / Patricia Fletcher
  • 2. Building national collections of internet publications / Jasmine Cameron, Margaret Phillips
  • 3. Connectivity, content and collaboration / Susan Haigh
  • 4. Deposit collections of digital publications / Jose Borbinha, Fernanda Campos, Fernando Cardoso
  • 5. National library of Korea / Ook Lee
  • 6. Trends in web-based services in academic libraries / Lynn Fountain
  • 7. Impact of the internet on Malaysian libraries / Diljit Singh
  • 8. The University of Queensland Cybrary / Janine Schmidt, Jennifer Croud, Deborah Turnbull
  • 9. Towards the people's network / Helen Baigent, Chris Moore
  • 10. Providing multilingual internet services in the global information environment / Xuemao Wang, Malabika Das, Maria Sunio, Andrew Schlein
  • 11. An analysis of using expert systems and intelligent agents for the virtual library project at the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Carderock Division / Jay Liebowitz, Monica Adya
  • 12. Librarians as info architects / Paula Wolfe, Lori Olson
  • 13. Subject access to quality-assured world wide web resources / Robert Newton, David Dixon
  • 14. Progress and prospects for Estonian libraries / Sirje Virkus
  • 15. The growing support crisis in federal STI / R. Lankes
  • 16. Remote access / Lueinda Zoe
  • 17. Libraries on the information highway / John Bertot.