Libraries Without Walls: Information Technology in Finnish Public Libraries from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Autor: Saarti, Jarmo1 jarmo.saarti@uku.
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Zdroj: Library History. Mar2006, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p33-43. 11p. 1 Diagram, 1 Map.
Abstrakt: Presents a short history of how information technology was introduced into Finnish public libraries from the 1970s to the 1990s. The period can be divided into five phases: off-line lending systems; online lending systems; integrated library systems and database searching; the birth of the national library database services; and the era of the Internet and the development of the digital library. Major sources used were the results of a postal questionnaire distributed to public libraries by the author in 2004 and articles and reports in 'Kirjastolehti' (the 'Finnish Library Journal'). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts