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"Defining ""It"": NREN's Opportunities for Librarians"

Martin, Susan K.

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Title
"Defining ""It"": NREN's Opportunities for Librarians"
Author(s)
Martin, Susan K.
Issue Date
1991
Keyword(s)
  • Research libraries --United States --Automation
  • Library information networks --United States
Abstract
Various aspects of the National Research and Education Network (NREN) are discussed. Legislation currently under consideration is characterized by a focus on the research community to the exclusion of other potential user communities and is also characterized by a low level of federal funding. Librarians have already played a role in changing the focus of the proposed network and need to continue this effort. Other issues discussed include defining when the Internet evolves into the NREN, who will have access to the network, what will be accessible on the network, and who will pay for access to the network. Finally, the role of the librarian in a leadership capacity in the implementation of the network is discussed.
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 (28th : 1991)
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. 1991.

Owning Collections

1991: Networks, open access, and virtual libraries : implications for the research library PRIMARY
28th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1991). Edited by Brett Sutton and Charles H. Davis.