The E-RBR: Confirming the technology and exploring the law of "electronic reserves:" Two generations of the digital library system at the SDSU library

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 118-123

  Goodram, Richard J ^a  

^a Suite 127 1730 S Amphlett Blvd ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0030446783     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0099-1333(96)90178-0     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Bond University was a new, private university being established in Queensland, Australia.
2. The term finally used by the author was "V-Library" to enable a specific definition and avoid the growing lack of precision in the virtual library debate.
3. The terms used by the author and his colleagues at Bond University were "electronic library" and "ebrary."
4. IS-2001: a strategy for change. May, 1991;SDSU Library, San Diego.
5. The 1991/1992 Fiscal Year budget forced the SDSU Library to reduce expenditures on books, journals and staffing.
6. It is the author's opinion that the use of the SuperBase macro-language (Interpretive Basic) caused a substabtial slowing in the response time of the bibliographic DBMS.
7. As the image traffic accross the Library's LAN and the Campus LAN increases, available bandwidth will become an issue. Switched -hub Technology offers the possibility of providing substantially greater effective bandwidth while continuing to use the installed Ethernet infrastructure. This technology also provides an effective structure for distributing I/O loads using multiple serves.
8. The original name assigned to the second generation system was "PACIT," NouSoft refers to its product as "Electronic Course Reserves," and Contec North America markets the system as "C3." For clarity, in this paper the system is referred to as the E-RBR Mk 2.
9. The implementation plan is to have 12 User Work Stations when the Library occupies its new extension in June, 1996.
10. The author developed an "ATM ready" specification for the new communications infrastructure that uses FDDI, CDDI and Fast Ethernet with associated hardware. All horizontal wiring is AT&T 15 year warranted, Category 5 UTP.