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Volume 6, Issue 1
1 January 1990
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Research Article| January 01 1990

LANs in the Library Part I

James Speed Hensinger
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2377-620X
Print ISSN: 8756-5196
© MCB UP Limited
1990
OCLC Micro (1990) 6 (1): 13–14.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003601

Identifies the three reasons that LANs are used in libraries: to share expensive hardware; to share information resources; and to facilitate communication. Touches briefly on the subject of LAN hardware and software.

Keywords: Computer hardware, Computer software, Information retrieval, Libraries, Local area networks
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