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Online Developments and their Impact on Libraries

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New Information Technologies and Libraries

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Long, long ago, when post-coordinate indexing was the very latest technical advance in the art of information storage and retrieval, the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services published a Directory(1), giving details of all the A & I services it had been able to discover. In its time — which was 1963 — this was the most complete listing of secondary services available anywhere. It carried information about approximately 1850 services, none of which was even machine-readable, let alone available online.

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  1. National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services. A guide to the World’s Abstracting and Indexing Services in Science and Technology. Washington D.C., 1963.

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  2. Cuadra Associates Inc. Directory of Online Databases. Vol. 5, no. 3, Spring 1984. Santa Monica, 1984.

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  1. Dennis A. Lewis
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Associations and Institutions, Brussels, Belgium

    H. Liebaers (Honorary President International Federation of Library, Commissioner-General Europalia) (Honorary President International Federation of Library, Commissioner-General Europalia)

  2. Washington, DC, USA

    W. J. Haas (President Council on Library Resources) (President Council on Library Resources)

  3. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    W. E. Biervliet (Senior Research Fellow European Cultural Foundation) (Senior Research Fellow European Cultural Foundation)

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Lewis, D.A. (1985). Online Developments and their Impact on Libraries. In: Liebaers, H., Haas, W.J., Biervliet, W.E. (eds) New Information Technologies and Libraries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5452-6_16

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