indexing URLs in card catalogs (fwd)

[Andy Carvin <acarvin@KUDZU.CNIDR.ORG>]

This may be of interest to you cybrarians out there....

(from the latest EDUPAGE)

U. OF ROCHESTER INCLUDES WEB SITES IN LIBRARY CARD CATALOGUE
The University of Rochester has developed a next-generation information
catalogue, which includes not only the volumes housed in the university's
library, but also journal citations, information from full-text databases,
and links to Web sites.  The Voyager system, which runs on PCs wired to the
Internet, also includes the table of contents for about 30,000 books --
useful for tracking down a specific poem, for instance.  "We wanted to
remove barriers to access to information so that someone doesn't have to
worry about, 'Is this a book or is this a database?'," says the library's
acting head of reference.  (Chronicle of Higher Education 28 Mar 97)

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Andy Carvin
WWWEDU Coordinator and Moderator
acarvin@kudzu.cnidr.org