The aim of this book is to provide librarians who are planning to purchase CD-ROMs or manage their use by the public, with case studies of libraries from the USA, Canada and Europe which have installed CD-ROM workstations in public access areas. This volume should therefore serve as an aid to the planning and decision-making involved. Contributors to the book are drawn from various types of libraries and information centres including public, academic, school and other special libraries. The emphasis is on libraries offering access to commerically produced databaes both bibliographic and non-bibliographic. Libraries which have only one workstation, as well as those offering entire information retrieval centres housing their CD-ROMS are included. Unusual or innovative services, workstations in non-traditional locations, fee-based access, training programmes for staff and patrons and networking arrangements are all discussed.
The aim of this book is to provide librarians who are planning to purchase CD-ROMs or manage their use by the public, with case studies of libraries from the USA, Canada and Europe which have installed CD-ROM workstations in public access areas. This volume should therefore serve as an aid to the planning and decision-making involved. Contributors to the book are drawn from various types of libraries and information centres including public, academic, school and other special libraries. The emphasis is on libraries offering access to commerically produced databaes both bibliographic and non-bibliographic. Libraries which have only one workstation, as well as those offering entire information retrieval centres housing their CD-ROMS are included. Unusual or innovative services, workstations in non-traditional locations, fee-based access, training programmes for staff and patrons and networking arrangements are all discussed.
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Part 1 Academic libraries: CD-ROM at Brock University - introduction, integration, adaptations; CD-ROM - a successful format in the education library; CD-ROM end user searching - implementation issues in Ontario; staff and user training for CD-ROM at Auburn University; CD-ROMs for public access - research library; using read only optical media in the Department of Information Science Library, University of Milan, Italy. Part 2 Medical and health sciences libraries: new approaches to access - CD-ROM at the St Louis University Medical Centre Library; CD-ROM utilization in a health sciences setting; CD-ROM teaching techniques - instructing PsycLit users in a health sciences library. Part 3 School libraries: CD-ROMs in the school library - one district's experience; CD-ROMs go to school. Part 4 Public libraries: projected RFD (Rural Facts Delivery). Part 5 Separate CD-ROM facilities: the Wiley Laser Disk Service at Evans Library, Texas A&M; the Byte of Electronic Information at Oregon State University - the CD-ROM Reference Centre at the Kerr Library. Part 6 User fees: fee based CD-ROMs at Kent State University. Part 7 Networks: changing the landscape of undergraduate research - the Rutgers-Newark experience; INFO-LAN - a CD-ROM local area network in a public library; the Electronic Information Centre at Boston College's O'Neill library. Part 8 Remote access: CD-ROMs in the high school library. Part 9 When CD's are not enough, magnetic tapes plus CDs: CD-ROM technology in a biomedical library; CD-ROMs at Carnegie Mellon University.
