CharlesForrest1, KarenChapman2, JoyceWright3
1Director of Instructional Support Services at the Candler Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
2Business reference librarian at the University of Alabama Libraries in Tuscaloosa
3Assistant professor of library administration and administrative assistant to the director of Departmental Library Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Tóm tắt
Optical discs are having a significant impact on information retrieval in libraries. They provide access to bibliographic and numeric data in an efficient manner, retrieving information in seconds that would take a patron using a printed source much longer to find. InfoTrac, a periodical database produced by Information Access Company, is an example of an application of this technology. The forerunner of the company's General Periodicals Index, InfoTrac consists of a database stored on a laser‐optical videodisc and a microcomputer work‐station for accessing, displaying, and printing the contents of the database.
