Networked Research Report on China's Library and Information Work Towards the 21st Century

Author: Huang Chang / Zhou Wenjun / Yuan Mingdun (editors)
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book is a research report on a major project under the National Social Science Fund of China's "Nineth Five-Year Plan." It includes the current status of library and information work networking both domestically and internationally, information resource distribution and allocation models, the structure and physical implementation of library and information networks, an overview of library and information software systems, standardization and configuration, and evaluation. Additionally, it covers the structure and functions of digital libraries, core technologies of digital libraries, and existing problems in digital library engineering. The book also proposes more operational suggestions for the mechanism selection of library and information services in a network environment and the development of a library and information network with Chinese characteristics.