Library Network Management

Of major interest to information professionals and perhaps the most widely known of the WAN developments is the evolution of the Internet, spelled with a capital I. One significant problem with the Internet is that access to it is largely from academic and governmental sites, with still relatively few commercial or business sites. Thus, while academic libraries and many public libraries are accessible via the Internet, many resources such as private special libraries in major corporations are not as yet able to offer their catalogs in a searchable state across the Internet. The typical university library has access to both host-based resources and distributed computing sites via typical desktop computers or more powerful UNIX-based workstations. This composite of application support reaches beyond the capabilities of any single integrated library system itself. The major topics given elaborate treatment in this book are: Dawn of Library Networking, Computer in Library Networking, Computer in Library Management, Multi Media Libraries, Multi Media Resources, Library Network-Software and Hardware, Terminal Software and Online Cataloguing etc.