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Transfiguring the Library as Digital Research Infrastructure: Making KBLab at the National Library of Sweden
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Love Börjeson; Chris Haffenden; Martin Malmsten; Fredrik Klingwall; Emma Rende; Robin Kurtz; Faton Rekathati; Hillevi Hägglöf; Justyna Sikora – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This article provides an account of the making of KBLab, the data lab at the National Library of Sweden (KB). The first part discusses the work involved in establishing a lab as both a physical and a digital site for researchers to use digital collections at previously unimaginable scales. The second part explains how the lab has deployed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks
Virtual Journal Room: MSU Libraries Table of Contents Service
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Sutherland, Michael; Clark, Jason – Computers in Libraries, 2009
Montana State University (MSU) Libraries (where the authors serve as web services librarian and digital initiatives librarian, respectively) is perhaps unique because it has no current periodicals room due to lack of space. As a result, finding current journals for research is difficult for its patrons, who do not always know how or where to…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Computer Networks
Designing Secure Library Networks.
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Breeding, Michael – Library Hi Tech, 1997
Focuses on designing a library network to maximize security. Discusses UNIX and file servers; connectivity to campus, corporate networks and the Internet; separation of staff from public servers; controlling traffic; the threat of network sniffers; hubs that eliminate eavesdropping; dividing the network into subnets; Switched Ethernet;…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Security, Computer System Design, Internet
Spreading the ILLINET: A Distributed Network for Library Resource Sharing In Illinois.
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Zeeman, Johann; MacKinnon, Dennis – Internet Research, 1993
Presents a network design and development plan for a flexible, distributed client-server network of resource sharing libraries in Illinois. The plan's development in phases, design constraints and alternatives, migration strategy, and components are explained. Application of the model to other statewide or regional networks is suggested. (Contains…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Information Networks, Interlibrary Loans
The Information Utility Project: A Glimpse into the Library of the Future.
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Slonim, Jacob; Bauer, Michael A. – Information Processing and Management, 1990
Description of a Canadian research and development project that involved the development of a library information system which would satisfy the needs of a variety of libraries focuses on the technological aspects of the system. Data manipulation is discussed, software is described, standards are considered, and customer requirements are examined.…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Data Processing
Internet Librarian '99. Proceedings of the Internet Librarian Conference (3rd, San Diego, California, November 8-10, 1999).
Nixon, Carol, Comp.; Burmood, Jennifer, Comp. – 1999
These Proceedings of the Third Internet Librarian Conference include the following papers: (1) "Networking the Network: What Information Technology Fluency Can Do for You" (Jose Aguinaga, Kitty Little, and C.D. McLean); (2) "Moving Out of HTML into Database Solutions for the Web" (Kristin Antelman); (3) "Creating Your Own…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Cooperative Programs, Information Services