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Optical publishing: Effects on reference services

Noreault, Terry

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Description

Title
Optical publishing: Effects on reference services
Author(s)
Noreault, Terry
Issue Date
1987
Keyword(s)
  • Reference services (Libraries) --Automation
  • Online bibliographic searching
  • Database searching
  • Libraries and electronic publishing
  • CD-ROM
Abstract
Recent technological developments are having a major effect on the delivery of reference services. The most recent of these, optical storage technology (specifically CD-ROM), has been touted as the most important development in publishing since the printing press. While this appears to represent a level of hype that is most probably not deserved, it now appears clear that reference services are beginning to be changed in significant ways. This technology does not represent a qualitatively different service, but it will have a very dramatic effect on the economics of delivering certain types of services.
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.