Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
With regard to the traditional objectives of library networking, bibliographic control and availability of publications[2], we find that in West Germany bibliographic control for material published after 1980 has been changed almost completely from conventional to computerized networking infrastructure; yet the ways and means to provide availability of publications remain to a very large degree based on conventional networks
References to the history of library networking - as computerized networks - are to their development in West Germany
Summarizing the state and rather short history of electronic library networking in Germany, we have to distinguish between networking at local, regional, and national levels; bibliographic control of books on the one hand and serials on the other; enrichment of machine-readable library files to bibliographic and fact databases by providing access to relevant databases available on CD-ROM
Summary
Summarizing the state and rather short history of electronic library networking in Germany, we have to distinguish between networking at local, regional, and national levels; bibliographic control of books on the one hand and serials on the other; enrichment of machine-readable library files to bibliographic and fact databases by providing access to relevant databases available on CD-ROM.
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