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Volume 7, Issue 1
1 January 1991
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Research Article| January 01 1991

Spreading CD‐ROM Technology Beyond the Library: Applications for Remote Communications Software

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2377-620X
Print ISSN: 8756-5196
© MCB UP Limited
1991
OCLC Micro (1991) 7 (1): 16–19.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003642

Considers the use of Remote Communications Software as a cost‐efficient solution to sharing information with offsite users. Discusses theuse of RCS, typical library applications, and the potential disadvantages of RCS. Concludes that RCS is particularly applicable in making technologies such as CD‐ROM and microcomputer databases available to remote users at a low cost.

Keywords: CD‐ROM, Communications technology, Computer software, Information systems, Libraries
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