Information SuperHighway and the Digital Global Library: Realities and Challenges.

Chen, Ching-chih

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Publication Date: 1994

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Information SuperHighway and the Digital Global Library: Realities and Challenges.

Chen, Ching-chih

Microcomputers for Information Management, v11 n3 p143-55 Sep 1994

Discusses the concept of a global library made possible by recent technological, social, and economic changes. Topics addressed include universal information access, the information superhighway, the shift toward a learning-oriented society, the contemporary role of libraries, the need to form a global coalition, and barriers to a global library. (15 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Economic Change, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Global Approach, Information Networks, Library Cooperation, Library Role, Multimedia Materials, Problems, Social Change, Technological Advancement

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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