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11 – 20 of 381Over the past eight years, the MELVYL catalog has become one of the largest public access catalogs in the world, and now plays a central role in providing access to the library…
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Over the past eight years, the MELVYL catalog has become one of the largest public access catalogs in the world, and now plays a central role in providing access to the library resources of the University of California. Currently, under heavy load, the MELVYL catalog supports many hundreds of simultaneous terminal connections, servicing over a quarter of a million queries a week and displaying more than two million records a week to its user community. This article discusses the history of the network that has supported the MELVYL catalog from the early days of its prototype to the present. It also describes both the current technical and policy issues that must be addressed as the network moves into the 1990s, and the roles that the network is coming to play in integrating local automation, the union catalog, access to resource databases, and other initiatives. Sidebars discuss the TCP/IP protocol suite, internet protocol gateways, and Telenet and related inter‐operability problems.
Clifford Lynch, Elke Greifeneder and Michael Seadle
The purpose of this paper is to look back on the last 30 years of technology development for libraries.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to look back on the last 30 years of technology development for libraries.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper presents an interview that took place at the American Library Association Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California.
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The paper reveals that many of the developments are slow. There are very few really sudden revolutions in social‐scale technologies. They do not switch on quickly and cannot be sudden because the installed base is too thin.
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The paper reveals that there should be some renewed conversation about how libraries can help the public. In the early days of the internet libraries played an enormous uncredited role in teaching the adult population about the internet. There are some opportunities like that now, and one place where we are starting to see signs of it is digital preservation, not as libraries doing it for the cultural record, but helping individuals to do it for their own content.
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Nancy Gusack and Clifford A. Lynch
This issue of Library Hi Tech contains a series of articles about the TULIP materials science journal access project, an unprecedented cooperative undertaking involving Elsevier…
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This issue of Library Hi Tech contains a series of articles about the TULIP materials science journal access project, an unprecedented cooperative undertaking involving Elsevier Science Publishing and a number of major universities in the United States.
According to Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information president, a problem in developing digital libraries is that scarce resources get burned up in too many…
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According to Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information president, a problem in developing digital libraries is that scarce resources get burned up in too many small‐scale local projects, which then wither away for lack of institutional support. One approach to solving it is to concentrate funding on a few large institutions that have the technical skills and institutional resources to manage major long‐term projects of national scope. A second approach is to help small, inexperienced institutions do it right. In the early stages of a digitization project, choices must be made: how much emphasis to put on preservation and how much on access; whether to do photographically exact images or structurally marked‐up, searchable ASCII text. The purpose of this article is two‐fold: to convince the reader of the importance of knowing the digitization literature and to introduce some of the most important elements of that literature. The bibliography emphasizes issues that cut across all options. Sections are on general works, landmark digitization projects, choice, quality, longevity, integrity, access, SGML markup, and copyright.
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The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) held its 1992 mid‐year meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 28–30 May. The theme of the meeting was ‘Networks…
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The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) held its 1992 mid‐year meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 28–30 May. The theme of the meeting was ‘Networks, Telecommunications and the Networked Information Resource Revolution’. The technical program committee consisted of Clifford A. Lynch, Michael Buckland, Cecilia Preston, Janet Vratney‐Watts and Nancy Gusack.
Chris Sugnet, Henriette D. Avram, Rowland Brown, Clifford A. Lynch, Susan K. Martin, Ron Miller, C. James Schmidt, Sharon Walbridge, Louella V. Wetherbee and Bruce Ziegman
When the initial library networks were established in the United States, they provided affordable, online automation services that were available from virtually no other source…
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When the initial library networks were established in the United States, they provided affordable, online automation services that were available from virtually no other source. The surge of automation experienced by American libraries for the past two decades has altered the historical relationships that characterize library cooperation. Local networks are being created and machine‐readable products previously available only from the networks are now being packaged on optical media and distributed to individual institutions. With these technological advances, the need for, services offered by, and financial viability of the networks have begun to undergo dramatic change. This is also a time of great opportunity for libraries and networks. There is on the horizon what may be the infrastructure for a national information network. The realization of this network will require close cooperation of librarians, who have embraced the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model for networking, and members of the academic and research community, which is still relying heavily on the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocols (TCP/IP) for communications purposes.
Because of online digital resources, academic libraries no longer need to spend as much time and energy organizing their own collections as they used to. They now have an…
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Because of online digital resources, academic libraries no longer need to spend as much time and energy organizing their own collections as they used to. They now have an opportunity to pivot their expertise in organizing information outward. “Inside-out” library services can include support for special collections, digital scholarship, scholarly communication, and data management. A key characteristic of such services is that an academic library takes on broader information management challenges at their college or university. This chapter will examine what it takes to build successful inside-out library services by looking at their cost, how well they complement existing library expertise and culture, and their impact on teaching, research, and the wider community.
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Identifies key activities that network users can perform in orderto use the network effectively. Offers recommended reading, frombeginner to expert user status. Explains some…
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Identifies key activities that network users can perform in order to use the network effectively. Offers recommended reading, from beginner to expert user status. Explains some commonly used terms (e.g. Turbo Gopher with Veronica!). Lists useful Internet resources.