This state-of-the-art reference/text offers a unique historical perspective of the past 25 years of computers in libraries–profiling currently available processing systems according to their size and platform.
Discussing the short- and long-term future of information technology in libraries, Library Information Technology and Networks
• Covers recent advances in bibliographic utilities and library networks, including the Internet
• Examines the worldwide market potential for information technology
• Contains a brief overview of foreign library automation development
• Describes the newer breed of concurrent multiuser systems
• Compares the bibliographic hardware and software of numerous systems vendors
• Investigates procurement and evaluation factors that influence the future of information systems in every library
• Stresses how cooperation among libraries strengthens library programs and services and more!
Preface
Chapter 1 : The Decade of the Seventies
Chapter 2 : New Directions for Library Systems : 1980’s Progress
Chapter 3 : Bibliographic Utilities and Cooperative Programs
Chapter 4 : Networks, Internetworking and Standards
Chapter 5 : Evaluation, Procurement and Other Factors Affecting the Shaping of Your Library System
Chapter 6 : Old Establishment Silicon and Iron : The Big Concurrent User Systems
Chapter 7 : The Newer Breed of Concurrent Multiuser Systems
Chapter 8 : Microcomputer/LAN-Based Bibliographic Software
Chapter 9 : Information Technology : The Tools of Tomorrow
Index