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Reflections on CD-ROM: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Purpose.
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Saviers, Shannon Smith – Special Libraries, 1987
Provides a technological overview of CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory), an optically-based medium for data storage offering large storage capacity, computer-based delivery system, read-only medium, and economic mass production. CD-ROM database attributes appropriate for information delivery are also reviewed, including large database size,…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Databases, Information Technology, Optical Data Disks
(Networking + Integrating) * (Systems + Society). Proceedings of the Annual Canadian Conference of Information Science (12th, Toronto, Ontario, May 14-16, 1984) = (Reseaux + Integration) * (Systemes + Societe). Comptes rendus de la conference annuelle Canadienne des sciences de l'information (12th, Toronto, Ontario, 14-16 mai, 1984).
Canadian Association for Information Science, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1984
Seventeen papers from the 1984 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) are presented in four broad topic areas. The first group, which focuses on changing roles in information access, includes the keynote address by Charles Meadow, "Integrating Access to Information Utilities: Promises, Problems, and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Databases, Futures (of Society)