University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The new CD-ROM technology: Shaping the future of reference and information research

Clark, Barton M.; Bingham, Karen Havill

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Title
The new CD-ROM technology: Shaping the future of reference and information research
Author(s)
  • Clark, Barton M.
  • Bingham, Karen Havill
Issue Date
1987
Keyword(s)
  • Reference services (Libraries) --Automation
  • Online bibliographic searching
  • Database searching
  • Libraries and electronic publishing
  • CD-ROM
Abstract
It has been said more than once that students will do online searching as long as it does not cost more than a pizza. That premise is probably true. Several years ago when the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had to almost double the cost of ERIC searches, the number of student searches dropped dramatically. These increased costs and the introduction of laser technology were major factors in the university library's examination of electronic reference tools which could be run by in-house microcomputers rather than vendor-operated mainframes. UIUC, like many other libraries, entered this new world of technology through Information Access Company's InfoTrac. This article describes UIUC's experiences with InfoTrac and the manner in which those experiences contributed to the library's analysis of in-house microcomputerbased electronic reference tools.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (24th : 1987)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1987.

Owning Collections

1987: Questions and Answers: Strategies for Using the Electronic Reference Collection PRIMARY
24th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1987). Edited by Linda C. Smith.