The transiency of CD-ROM? A reappraisal for the 1990s  

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Stratton, Barbara

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science vol. 26 no. 3 (2008), page 157-164.
Fulltext: 157.pdf (1.07MB)

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In an earlier article, Tony McSean and Derek Law suggested that CDROM is a transient technology likely to be supplanted. This article reexamines the authors’ hypothesis in light of subsequent developments. Compares CD-ROM with online information retrieval, suggesting that the poorer currency of CD-ROM may be solved by providing complementary online and CD-ROM services. Discusses the provision of parallel printed, online and CD-ROM versions, networking issues, and the impact of CD-ROM on printed products. McSean and Law failed to predict the revolution in personal computers and to appreciate the effect of networking capabilities. The perceived problem of CD-ROM disc capacity and low retrieval speeds still remain problems for very large databases. Considers current applications of CD-ROM for enabling electronic libraries and for document and database delivery, particularly over networks such as JANET. Concludes that McSean and Law’s assertion that CDROM is a transient technology has proved to be quite correct in that all information technology has proved to be transient. However, CD-ROM has proved a useful and attractive technology, offering an alternative to online databases which is much more user friendly, and, depending upon sufficient volume of end-user use, more economical than online.

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