Information Technology and Libraries articles from June 2000

Information Technology and Libraries archives from June 2000

Electronic Library for Scientific Journals: Consortium Project in Brazil
June 1, 2000... Making information available for the acquisition and transmission of human knowledge is the focal point of this paper, which describes the creation of a consortium for the university and research institute libraries in the state of Sao Paulo,...

China Academic Library and Information System: An Academic Library Consortium in China
June 1, 2000... Since its inception in 1998, China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) has become the most important academic library consortium in China. CALIS is centrally funded and organized in a tiered structure. It currently consists of...

Prospector: A Multivendor, Multitype, and Multistate Western Union Catalog
June 1, 2000... The Prospector project represents a unique union catalog. The origin, goals, and design of the union catalog that uses the INN-Reach system are presented. Challenges of the union catalog include the integration of records from libraries that do...

Digital Resource Sharing and Library Consortia in Italy
June 1, 2000... Interlibrary cooperation in Italy is a fairly recent and not very widespread practice. Attention to the topic was aroused in the eighties with the Italian library network project. More recently, under the impetus toward technological innovation,...

Consortia Building: A Handshake and a Smile, Island Style
June 1, 2000... In the evaluation of consortia and what constitutes these entities the discussion runs the gamut. From small, loosely knit groups who are interested in cooperation for the sake of improving services to large membership-driven organizations...

New Strategies in Library Services Organization: Consortia University Libraries in Spain
June 1, 2000... New political, economic, and technological developments, as well as the growth of information markets, in Spain have created a foundation for the creation of library consortia. The author describes the process by which different regions in Spain...

In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson. New York: Avon Books, Inc., 1999. 151p. $10 (ISBN 0-380-81593-1) Neal Stephenson is best known for his cyberfiction, including Snow Crash and most recently Cryptonomicon. In...

The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly, 1999. 288p. $19.95 (ISBN 1-56592-724-9) This short essay examines, in the guise of a book...