Acqweb: Book buying in the age of the internet

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Leiserson, Anna Belle ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002120880     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378839710308358     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. NCSA, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, quickly became a cornerstone of the World Wide Web, with not just Mosaic, but a wide variety of resources for the budding Web user: HTML tools, collections of graphic images to download, lists of new Web sites, instructions on how to code for the Web, and more. For more information, see .
2. In the way of Web, my original inspiration, the Koblas Currency Converter, no longer exists. There are, however, several new and even better such tools linked to from the "Money Matters" section of AcqWeb at <.
3. NCSA: A Beginner's Guide to HTML. See .
4. To this day, we are fortunate to have their continued support, particularly that of RamonaMadwell and Mary Ann Vaughn. As well as providing the disk space on a server, they have helped with image maps and CGI scripts.
5. See, for example, his "Description and Evaluation of the 'Mr. Serials' Process: Automatically Collecting, Organizing, Archiving, Indexing, and Disseminating Electronic Serials" at .
6. In addition to the editor, there are two associate editors-David Marshall (head of acquisitions and serials, Georgetown University Library) and Peter Scott (manager, small systems, University of Saskatchewan Libraries); and three assistant editors-Peter Brading (assistant librarian, University of Bristol Library), Steve Johnson (assistant acquisitions librarian, Clemson University), and Alice Pidgeon (head of technical services, Pace University School of Law Library)
7. Yahoo! See: .
8. Peter Scott and Doug Macdonald, webCats: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web. See .
9. Barbara Stewart, Top 200 Technical Services Benefits of Home Page Development. See .
10. Thelma C. Stewart, ed., Book and Serial Vendors for Asia and the Pacific. American Library Association, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Publications Committee, Acquisitions Section. See .
11. MELVYL. The University of California's online catalog. See .
12. BookWire. See < http://www.bookwire.com/ >.
13. Peter Scott, Publishers' Catalogues. See .
14. Peter Stevens, Acquisitions Web Sites. See .
15. Wendy Lewis, Great Moments in the History of Technical Services. See .
16. David Siegle, Creating Killer Web Sites: The Art of Third-Generation Site Design (Indianapolis: Hayden Books, 1996).